Flash plug-in in 2 places

[Timothy Daniels]

Opera 9.27 said I had to download and install Adobe Flash Player
in order for it to display certain web content. I had already installed
Adobe Flash Player for IE, but I downloaded and installed
Adobe Flash Player for Opera as well. Now when I view the
plug-ins installed for Opera, I see "Shockwave Flash" installed in
two places:
C:\Program Files\Opera\Program\Plugins\NPSWF32.dll
and
C:\Windows\system32\Macromed\Flash\NPWF32.dll

I presume that the 2nd entry was due to Opera finding the entry
for IE. Why couldn't Opera use that Flash Player instead of
asking for its own copy to be downloaded and installed?

*TimDaniels*

[Rijk van Geijtenbeek]

Op Thu, 21 Aug 2008 01:06:12 +0200 schreef Timothy Daniels
<SpamB...@nospamplease.biz>:

> Opera 9.27 said I had to download and install Adobe Flash Player
> in order for it to display certain web content. I had already installed
> Adobe Flash Player for IE, but I downloaded and installed
> Adobe Flash Player for Opera as well. Now when I view the
> plug-ins installed for Opera, I see "Shockwave Flash" installed in
> two places:
> C:\Program Files\Opera\Program\Plugins\NPSWF32.dll
> and
> C:\Windows\system32\Macromed\Flash\NPWF32.dll

AFAIK, the latter is also a netscape style plugin, not the active-x
control type that gets used in IE. Are you sure the latter was available
on your system when Opera complained? It might be that installing the
plugin put the copy in two places, the Windows system location for general
use and the active browser location to appease the browser. Recent
versions of Opera will check the C:\windows\ location, but older ones
didn't.

> I presume that the 2nd entry was due to Opera finding the entry
> for IE. Why couldn't Opera use that Flash Player instead of
> asking for its own copy to be downloaded and installed?
>
> *TimDaniels*
>
>

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Rijk van Geijtenbeek
Opera Software ASA, Documentation & QA
Tweak: http://my.opera.com/Rijk/blog/

"The most common way to get usability wrong is to listen to what users
say rather than actually watching what they do." - J.Nielsen

[Timothy Daniels]

"Rijk van Geijtenbeek" wrote:
> Timothy Daniels schreef:

>
>> Opera 9.27 said I had to download and install Adobe Flash Player
>> in order for it to display certain web content. I had already installed
>> Adobe Flash Player for IE, but I downloaded and installed
>> Adobe Flash Player for Opera as well. Now when I view the
>> plug-ins installed for Opera, I see "Shockwave Flash" installed in
>> two places:
>> C:\Program Files\Opera\Program\Plugins\NPSWF32.dll
>> and
>> C:\Windows\system32\Macromed\Flash\NPWF32.dll
>
> AFAIK, the latter is also a netscape style plugin, not the active-x control
> type that gets used in IE. Are you sure the latter was available on your
> system when Opera complained? It might be that installing the plugin put the
> copy in two places, the Windows system location for general use and the
> active browser location to appease the browser. Recent versions of Opera will
> check the C:\windows\ location, but older ones didn't.
>
>> I presume that the 2nd entry was due to Opera finding the entry
>> for IE. Why couldn't Opera use that Flash Player instead of
>> asking for its own copy to be downloaded and installed?
>>
>> *TimDaniels*

> Rijk van Geijtenbeek

Thanks for your reply, Rijk. I don't know if one of the Flash
.dll files was installed prior to installing Opera or not. At this point,
I might as well forget about it, at least for a while, as I have other
problems involving Opera running under Linux.

(BTW, have you any idea why under Ubuntu 8.04,
1) Firefox reacts to my mouse's forward/backware buttons and
Opera does not?), and
2) Flash doesn't work for Opera, but it does for Firefox?)

*TimDaniels*