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Firefox 2 & Flash

Morf · 2006-10-26 01:05:11

Just got firefox 2 the other day but it wont play flash videos, i just get a white box where the flash video should be. I've tried to update flash and i get a webpage saying "this object has been blocked" I've tried to go to an earlier version of firefox and i get the same message (browsing with firefox). I'm beginning to…

26-10-2006 1:05am

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Morf

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Just got firefox 2 the other day but it wont play flash videos, i just get a white box where the flash video should be.

I've tried to update flash and i get a webpage saying "this object has been blocked"

I've tried to go to an earlier version of firefox and i get the same message (browsing with firefox).

I'm beginning to think firefox are jerking me around or that i have a virus.

Thanks for any help

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#2 26-10-2006 1:07am

Ruu_Old

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Can you play videos with Internet Explorer?

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#3 26-10-2006 10:12am

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No, same problem with IE

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#4 26-10-2006 10:55am

jor el

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Maybe your firewall is blocking that particular website, or the flash object is broken. Could also be a problem with flash player.

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#5 26-10-2006 11:47am

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Try removing Flash altogether using the tool on the Macromedia website and trying a fresh install again.

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#6 26-10-2006 12:19pm

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by any chance are you on a college/school connection/proxy? most of their firewalls have flash blocked

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