Firefox and Adobe Flash Player

[bobover3 (imported)]

The most recent versions of Adobe Flash Player don't seem to work with Firefox. I've been forced to use FP 10 instead of 11. Firefox and Adobe are just blaming each other. Suggested work-arounds are difficult and don't always work. Does anyone know a reliable way to lick this problem?

[Slammr (imported)]

It didn't work for me with Firefox for a long time, but one of the recent updates by either Firefox or Flash got it working again. I don't know who did what, but I've had several auto updates from each.

[Paolo]

I don't even allow Adobe crap to update anymore.

The update before last to Adobe Reader forced me to reboot in safe mode and do a rollback, having called for a reboot upon installation.

WHY?!

Then it was infinite reboot all night long, and still trying to start the next morning. Even kicking the tower across the room didn't help.

(Yeah, I'm pretty pissy and harsh on equipment)

Anymore, if there an Adobe update, I just tell it no.

I long for the days of Windows 2000 and Firefox 1.

[bobover3 (imported)]

Slammr, I'll try with the latest versions of both FF and FP. Hope that works. Thanks.

[bobover3 (imported)]

Slammr, I followed your suggestion and it works! Thank you very much. This had been bugging me for a long time.

[Slammr (imported)]

Glad it worked. I like Firefox, but it had me using Explorer in order to use YouTube and such. I was glad they finally straightened it out.

[Losethem (imported)]

I don't even allow Adobe crap to update anymore.

The update before last to Adobe Reader forced me to reboot in safe mode and do a rollback, having called for a reboot upon installation.

WHY?!

Then it was infinite reboot all night long, and still trying to start the next morning. Even kicking the tower across the room didn't help.

(Yeah, I'm pretty pissy and harsh on equipment)

Anymore, if there an Adobe update, I just tell it no.

I long for the days of Windows 2000 and Firefox 1.

A problem I've yet to run into with the Mac. I'll just leave it at that.

Of course, windows has it's strong points as well.

--LT

[bobover3 (imported)]

I spoke too soon. Since upgrading to the latest Adobe Flash Player, I've received two notices that it's crashed and has automatically been shut down. I have the latest Firefox as well.

[bobover3 (imported)]

Flash Player 11.5 definitely does not work with Firefox 17.0.1. Started getting multiple crash reports. Had to uninstall 11.5 and re-install 10.3.

[janekane (imported)]

On one of the computers I use, I happen to be using Firefox 17.0.1 and Flash Player 11.5..., and am doing so without a trace of a hint of any difficulty.

Said computer is one that I use for some forms of Internet access; it happens to have Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit for its OS.

Where I live, the best Internet access I have yet been able to obtain involves a local cellular carrier and a cellular transceiver/modem/router. Automatic security updates for the transceiver/modem/router are not optional; for a while, every time I connected a computer using Windows XP (any version) or using Mac OS 10.6 or earlier, the internal computer of the cellular transcever/modem/router disconnected the router from the transceiver.

I bought a low-cost Windows 7 computer as a desperate effort, all else having become non-functional, and have had no problems with the transceiver/modem/router unit while running Windows 7.

From time to time, I have tried Mac OS 10.6 and have tried Windows XP, and, a few weeks ago, those systems apparently began working with the cellular transceiver/modem/router once again.

Were I to make a wild conjecture, I might regard the apparent problem with Firefox 17.0.1 and Adobe Flash Player 11.5 to be a problem with some other aspect of the computer system on which they seem incompatible.

In my younger days, I programmed computers in machine language. I suppose my all-time-favorite fancy programming language remains Tiny Basic.

It might be fair to state that I cut my computer teeth on a Librascope General Precision LGP-30 system, which had a front panel oscilloscope display with which one could manually look at the binary data in any memory location in the computer (it had 4k of 16 bit words.

One day, during my undergraduate engineering days, the IBM 360 system at the university was down, and I had a computer programming assignment due the next day.

Computer down? Phooey.

I went home, wrote the proper program in the LGP-30 Dictator interpreter (at the university, the proper language was Watfor), and the friendly professor was as though quite stunned, "You have a computer at home?????"

Yeah, I got an "A" in that class.

I have a simple way of surviving my encounters with human society, ways that have left me somehow alive.

I figure that my knowledge is infinitesimal and my ignorance is infinite. If a also allow that I may be able to learn, then the most secure thought I have ever encountered is knowing that I don't know.

Why does my Windows 7 Ultimate system run Firefox 17.0.1 and Adobe Flash Player 11.5 flawlessly? I don't know.

Why do others have problems running Firefox 17.0.0 with Adobe Flash Player 11.5? I don't know. What would it take to find out? I don't know.

What do I really know? I don't know.

I am very content with having infinite ignorance.

What I do know is, an apparent contradiction plausibly indicates incomplete understanding.

Most of the computer problems I have encountered in recent years have been the result of contradictions in security software interaction with useful programs; the complexity of recent computer software is huge. This system is using over 25,000 handles and more than 1000 threads and nearly 4 gigabytes of memory simply to allow me to write and post this.

I could single-step that LGP-30 through any program I could write for it in a long all-nighter, and know whether a 0 or a 1 resided in every binit location in the computer's memory.

Walter Elsasser, a theoretical physicist, suggested that sufficient complexity becomes creativity because any system of sufficient complexity will generate novel "behavior."

Ever contemplate all the possible interactions among all the dynamic link library functions in a computer such as the one I am using to write this?

Yikes.

That it works some of the time? Why is that not incessantly astonishing?