Flash - all but dead

[Toby]

Originally Posted by Greenguy

Help a dummy out: let's say you have an embedded flash movie on your page that's not set to automatically play - like I do on 90% of my category pages. Example:
http://www.link-o-rama.com/greenguy/newsites.htm

I never tried to play a flash movie like this in Firefox before today & when I did, it told me to install Adobe Flash, so I don't know if that's a new thing or that's what now happens if you use Firefox.

For some reason, I thought this whole flash thing was about ads/vids that automatically played when you went to the page? Am I wrong?

There are separate Flash Installs for IE and Firefox. The IE version uses ActiveX, which of course Firefox does not. To get the latest version go to https://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/ It detects which browser you are using and links to the matching installer. If you use more than one browser, do the install from each one.

[Greenguy]

Originally Posted by Toby

There are separate Flash Installs for IE and Firefox. The IE version uses ActiveX, which of course Firefox does not. To get the latest version go to https://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/ It detects which browser you are using and links to the matching installer. If you use more than one browser, do the install from each one.

I use Chrome & since Adobe tells me:

Your Google Chrome browser already includes Adobe® Flash® Player built-in. Google Chrome will automatically update when new versions of Flash Player are available.

That explains why I've never really thought much about it. I added it to Firefox yesterday & IE today when I tried to play the movie on my newsites page & got prompted to install Adobe.
(Geeze! IE still doesn't have a Paste & Go option when you put a URL in the toolbar??)

OK - so now I can watch the vids on my category pages with any browser I have. But... are all IE & Firefox surfers getting the error & Adobe link? Or is that just my timing? (meaning I would have had to do that 2 months ago if I tried to play a vid on my category page)

Originally Posted by Greenguy

For some reason, I thought this whole flash thing was about ads/vids that automatically played when you went to the page? Am I wrong?

Am I ill informed as usual?