Today I upgraded my flash player to version 9.0.124 and I’m referring to the debug version of it.
The upgrade went OK on IE, I downloaded the version for IE from Adobe’s download page (http://download.macromedia.com/pub/flashplayer/updaters/9/flashplayer_9_ax_debug.exe), I installed it and everything worked out.
I was thinking: “Great! That was easy! Let’s do it for Firefox also…”. I had a previous bad experience trying to upgrade the flash player which ended in reinstalling the Flex Builder but seeing that on IE was very easy I upgraded it also for Firefox. I downloaded the Firefox version from Adobe (http://download.macromedia.com/pub/flashplayer/updaters/9/flashplayer_9_plugin_debug.exe) and installed it. Although the flash player installer had no errors and was saying that the install was complete when I tried to debug a project the following error occurred:
C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\plugins\NPSWF32.dll
Flex Builder cannot locate the required version of the Flash Player. You may need to install Flash Player 9.0 or reinstall Flex Builder. Do you want to try to run your application with the current version?
I think many of you got this error. I pressed YES and I expected not be able to debug but Flex Builder did catch the errors displaying them in console view (also tried breakpoints and that is working). That was somehow strange…
That means that Flex Builder is looking for the debug version of flash player elsewhere than where it was installed. The flash player package is installing files in C:\WINDOWS\system32\Macromed\Flash but Flex Builder is looking for it in C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\plugins. I just copied the file from C:\WINDOWS\system32\Macromed\Flash to C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\plugins and the error disappeared.
One important notice: I was using Flex Builder 2.
Some resources:
Adobe Flash Player download page
About your installed flash player
Other got into this also
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This post was written by Andrei Ionescu
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Straight from adobe website.
Before you install Flash Player for any Windows browser, uninstall all previous versions. For instructions on removing the player, please see “How to uninstall the Adobe Flash Player plug-in and ActiveX control” (TechNote 14157)
not following this step has mixed results.
Yhen, thanks but no thanks. Already tried that and did not worked for me. The problem is not an older version but the location where the new player is installed.
Also it can be a browser issue: maybe Firefox changed the old location of plugins and Flex Builder 2 is looking in the old location but the browser has a new location. The flash player install seems to know where the plugins folder is but Flex Builder 2 don’t. I’m not sure but this can be an explanation.
What I know is that I tried what is written on Adobe site but didn’t work out. I hope, if somebody else will get into the same problem they will find a way to fix it… and there can be other ways than this to make it work.
Thanks buddy!
I run the flash player installer available at “C:\Program Files\Adobe\Flex Builder 3\Player\win\Install Flash Player 9 Plugin.exe” and it worked.
phew, that has been bugging me for a month, thanks for posting it
Greetings!
Has anyone gotten this Adobe error using QTP 9.5, Adobe flash 10, and Flexbuilder 3.0:
“adobe flex 3 plug-in for QTP could not find the flash player within the HTML page.”?
This prevents QTP from recognizing the flex 3 objects in our app.
Thanks in advance!
Steve
In order to install debugger version of Flash Player 9
1. Uninstall current flash player using Add/Remove programs.
2. Goto the following link http://www.adobe.com/support/flashplayer/downloads.html
3. Under Adobe Flash Player 9 debugger versions, install the following
a. First download and install the Windows Flash Player 9 ActiveX
control content debugger (for IE) (EXE, 1.61 MB)
b. Then download and install the Windows Flash Player 9 Plugin
content debugger (for Netscape-compatible browsers) (EXE, 1.57
MB)
4. Restart Flex Builder if already open.
5. If the debugger still doesn’t work, try re-starting the computer.
Thanks,
pinkeePink
I have the Mac OSX version of this solution on my blog if anyone’s interested. JynxStudio
Is it not possible to tell Flex where to look for the debug version of the flash player? I also have flash cs4 installed and its always trying to use that as my debugger. it’s quite frustrating because I dont want to replace what flash cs4 is using.
I don’t know if this is the answer you’re looking for but it may help you: http://www.sephiroth.it/weblog/archives/2006/10/flash_switcher_for_firefox.php