Flash 10 and Firefox 3.0.x

ZopfWare posted 26th of February 2009 in Community Voice. 17 comments.

Just wanted to share some things I found out last night. I have been plagued by the same problems alot of have had... that the RAY widgets (some of them like IM and Web Presence) don't work in Firefox with The new Flash 10.

After doing some research I started my FireFox in safe mode (firefox -safe-mode)

and I had it reset all toolbars back to default settings and then had it disable all of my add-ons. Then I restarted. Lo and behold, all the RAY flash wideget were working! So I started turning on my add-ons, one-by-one, and it all worked fine until I enabled the Google Toolbar. I'm pretty sure that most of us have had a Google Toolbar in Firefox since we first installed it.

This has worked on all my machines - Windows Vista Ultimate, Windows XP, and SUSE 11.0 Linux.

Someone give my suggestion a try and let me know if it helps.

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RobertRun

RobertRun•26th of February 2009

wow.. so google toolbar is doing that? I wondered why mine did not work. For me it is IM, and presence. Chat works. That's too bad.. i love my little google toolbar. :(

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RobertRun

RobertRun•26th of February 2009

man, people are giving it negative vibes with the thumbs.. if they have a solution, why don't they post it? Some people are just into the hatin'.

If you find a solution for this Zop, let me know..

R

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tango3d

tango3d•26th of February 2009

OK, I had the same problem, I now have it all working with Firefox 3.0X and flash 10, and google toolbar, there were a couple of DLL files missing in the mozilla/firefox/plugins folder you can download and install them and all works fine. I cant remember the filenames but will look them up and come back.

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tango3d

tango3d•26th of February 2009

I have found the 2 dll files that were missing in my version of Firefox, you will need to put them in program file/Mozilla Firefox/plugins and you can download them here: http://www.whiteyonder.com/share/download.php?file=685313 it worked for me but I have version 3.0.6 of Firefox

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ZopfWare

ZopfWare•26th of February 2009•to tango3d

I will check this out on my windows machine(s) but it is odd that this problem was still evident in Linux w/ FF3.0.6.

I still think that there is an issue with the Google toolbar....

Thanks for the info... I'll keep everyone posted.

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sammie

sammie•26th of February 2009

tried the dll files still no joy, removed the google toolbar and BINGO everything worked great at last, ty for this.

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houstonlively

houstonlively•26th of February 2009

All I can say is that I have used FF and flash player 10 all along and have never had any problems at all. I never had the Google toolbar installed, because I can't stand the thing. I especially hate the countless programs and upgrades that automatically assume you want the damn Google fckn toolbar installed.

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ZopfWare

ZopfWare•27th of February 2009•to houstonlively

Well, like i said in my research.... I think it is the Google Toolbar that is causing the problem... and based on the comment from Sammie, it looks like I was right that most of the people having trouble with Flash 10 and FF3 are also running the Toolbar.

Thanks for your backhanded confirmation that sans GoogleToolbar, everything works fine.

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Stuart038

Stuart038•27th of February 2009

How do you disable the Google search bar?

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tango3d

tango3d•27th of February 2009•to Stuart038

tools - addons- uninstall or disable

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sammie

sammie•27th of February 2009

it is the google toolbar that i will say 100% for sure, my IM died 5 months ago, then 3 days ago the music uploads died, then i seen this and removed the google toolbar and all are working great again.

it is the toolbar. well done for the time and post to tell others.
sammie x

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Stuart038

Stuart038•27th of February 2009

How do you disable the Google search bar?

tango 3d "tools - addons- uninstall or disable"

that's what I thought, but I do not have that option. Hence the "How do you disable the Google search bar?"

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ZopfWare

ZopfWare•28th of February 2009•to Stuart038

Hi Stuart,

We are referring to the ADD-ON google toolbar. All versions of FF have a Google (default) search box to the left of the address bar. (You can actually set it to be a search box for a number of different search engines by clicking on the down diamond next to the search logo)

If you are runng FF3 under Linux you will find on your tools menu where it says add-ons.
when u click on it it should open a seperate window with several choices. You want to click on the icon that says "Extensions."
This see more

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ZopfWare

ZopfWare•1st of March 2009

I'm not sure what's really going on, but I noticed that I also have trouble using the web presence module and IM using FF3.0.6 and Flash 10 under Vista when I have AdBlock Plus enabled. This is true even if I tell it to turn itself off for the site. Seems the only consistent thing is it works if I don't have those 2 add-ons installed. (Google ToolBar and AdBlock Plus)

Will be performing some other research on this issue as time allows.

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ladybugn

ladybugn•1st of March 2009

Anyone know if this is an admin prob or all users? do we need to let our users know?

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sammie

sammie•1st of March 2009

it will be an all user issue if any of the users have the google toolbar installed

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DrRamazzotti

DrRamazzotti•23rd of April 2009

Hello, any new ideas...
I have the same problem in FF 3.0.9 and Flash 10...

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