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Nice work, guys.īut, if the NPSWF32.dll file was not in it's official folder, Firefox was Both the Adobe uninstaller and Secunia had failed to locate the copy of the Flash player that Firefox was using. Lo and behold, Firefox was able to display the Flash-based ads.

Sure enough, when I checked, there was no NPSWF32.dll file inīut I figured the acid test was to visit a Web site that uses Flash, so Iīrowsed around a bit.

My first guess was to believe Secunia since all they do is look for files in folders, a simple process that shouldn't break.

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I got a second opinion from the Secunia Software Inspector: it said there was no plug-in version of Flash. Still, the Adobe tester page reported that Firefox was using the old version. I cleared the Firefox cache, rebooted and tested again. The ActiveX version for Internet Explorer was successfully removed, but the Firefox plug-in version remained. I dutifully ran the Adobe Flash uninstaller (the version from December 3, 2007) and then went back to the tester page to see what it had done. When I approached the machine this morning, the Flash tester page showed that Firefox was running the old version 9.0.47* but Internet Explorer 6 was running the latest version 9.0.115. I mentioned yesterday that Adobe has what I refer to as a 'tester' page for Flash, a Web page that displays the currently installed version of the Flash player.

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The problematic machine was running the latest version of Firefox (2.0.0.11) and Windows XP with all bug fixes applied. So if anything similar happens to you, you may find a helpful tip below. One computer in particular desperately resisted being updated to the latest The problems described below were only with the Firefox plug-in version. As you can see, both files normally reside in

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dll file at the bottom is the plug-in version. You can see this is the screenshot above from the Secunia Software Inspector, which shows both versions of the latest Flash player. The player comes packaged as an ActiveX control ('control' is nerd talk for 'program') for IE and as a 'plug-in' for Firefox.

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IE ActiveX version of the Flash player (top) and the Firefox plug-in versionĮven in the best of times, the Flash player is particularly annoying to upgrade because it has to be done twice, once for Internet Explorer and then again for Firefox. Screenshot from the Secunia Software Inspector showing both the

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Unfortunately the bugs in Flash extend beyond the player itself, as I learned the hard way while trying to update a handful of machines to the latest version. Simply viewing a Web page can infect your machine, so removing the old buggy versions of Flash is important. Those old versions were flagged by Secunia because they had security vulnerabilities (a nice word for bug, which is itself, a nice word for a mistake by a programmer).Īs I blogged about yesterday, this is now an important issue because the latest version of theįlash player fixes nine bugs, some of them critical (Adobe's term, not mine). The first time I ran the Secunia Software Inspector I almost fell off my chair at the huge list of old versions of the Flash player that were hanging around. Instead, Adobe has an uninstaller for the Flash player.Īnd why do I bring up removing old versions in the first place?īecause the Flash installer has never removed older The first three machines I tried this on resulted in three different outcomes, and the software was not removed on any of the machines. That is, trying to remove the currently installed version via the Windows XP Control Panel Add/Remove applet is a waste of time. But no.įor one, the Flash player does not play well with the other kids in the sandbox. When the Enabled theme is not the Default theme, you can disable it by clicking Disable.Installing a new version of software should be trivial thing-especially for popular software such as the Adobe Systems' Flash player, which is used by millions of people every day. You will see one Enabled theme and a list of Disabled themes. For additional information, see Use themes to change the look of Firefox.Ĭlick the menu button, click Add-ons and Themes Add-ons and Themes Add-ons and select Themes.

Click the ellipsis (3-dot) icon for the extension you wish to remove and select Remove.įirefox comes with a Default theme and optional Light and Dark themes, but you can add new themes to Firefox.

To disable extensions that have changed your New Tab, New Window or home page, see An extension changed my New Tab page or home page. To re-enable the extension, find it in the list of extensions and click the toggle for the corresponding extension.

Click the blue toggle for the extension you wish to disable.

Click the menu button, click Add-ons and Themes Add-ons and Themes Add-ons and select Extensions.

Disabling and removing extensions Disabling extensionsĭisabling an extension will turn it off without removing it.

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