carlene knight wrote: > I have downloaded, and thought installed the newest version of Flash > player, but when using Firefox, some sites won't open because they say > that I must have at least flash player 6.0.
Go to the following URI: about:plugins in your Firefox address bar, and check what version of the plugin Firefox is actually using. Be aware that while installing Flash might allow Flash video and audio to play in Firefox, the Flash plugin Adobe produced for Firefox doesn't expose Flash widgets using the Flash accessibility featureset to the Windows accessibility framework. So if you have a webpage built entirely with Flash that uses the Flash accessibility framework (for example, http://www.jkrowling.com ), you still wouldn't be able to use it from Firefox. (It would work in Internet Explorer, though.) Also be aware that some sites use JavaScript to detect Flash support, so if you have JavaScript disabled, you might well still get messages about a missing Flash Plugin. > I think I just downloaded 8.5. To enable these sites to work, should > I go ahead and install the newest flash player, or should I just > leave it alone and forfeit access to those particular sites. 8.5 isn't the newest version. The newest version is 9. Get it from Adobe's site: http://www.adobe.com/go/getflashplayer > I know JFW had some problems with one of the newer versions, perhaps > it was 8.0. Has anybody had any experience with the newer versions of > flash player? What version of JFW are you using? There are often Flash fixes to JAWS. e.g. in the February update: "JAWS no longer experiences problems with the Flash animation that appears on the Bank of America Web page." http://urlx.org/freedomscientific.com/ab9e0 Also, what version of Firefox are you using? > Sometimes when I am using Firefox and click on a particular link, it shuts > down entirely. I think that it > might be connected with the flash player issue. Most Firefox users have Flash installed, so I doubt it's because you installed Flash. It's likely to indicate some other problem with your Firefox installation or just a problem with your profile. Create a new profile, ensure Flash is installed in that profile, and try clicking that link again. If that fails, export your bookmarks to a bookmarks.html file. Then uninstall and reinstall Firefox, reimport your bookmarks, and ensure Firefox is using the Flash plugin. (It would also be worth pasting the URL of the page here, and telling us which link is crashing Firefox.) > Any thoughts on this > issue would be appreciated, as my husband says you really can't > practically switch to an earlier version of flash player. You can uninstall the Flash Player with Adobe's uninstaller: http://urlx.org/kb.adobe.com/fb454 And you can download older versions of the Flash Player from: http://urlx.org/kb.adobe.com/edea1 -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis Visit the JAWS Users List home page at: http://www.jaws-users.com Address for the list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help from Mailman with your account Put the word help in the subject or body of a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Use the following form in order to contact the management team http://www.jaws-users.com/managers.php If you wish to join the Blind Computing list send a blank email to the following address: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
