There are 2 versions of Adobe Flash:

• an ActiveX version for IE only
• a Plugin version for most other browsers including Firefox
• On a Windows system, you should always update both individually.

You do not appear to have the Plugin version for Firefox installed. If you did, in Add-ons > Plugins you would see "Shockwave Flash (version)". If "Shockwave Flash" is there and is disabled, click the "Enable" button. NOTE: Yes, I saw that you said it was disabled. The current version, just released a couple of days ago is 11.1.102.55.

Check your Plugins often --> http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/plugincheck/

• only the most popular/used Plugins are known by this page
• page will detect only installed, enabled Plugins

Install or update Adobe Flash

1. Using Firefox, go to the following link and SAVE the download to your desktop so you can find it later. Un-check any items on that page that you do not want to download (i.e., "McAfee Security Scan Plus":
   • http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer
2. When the download is finished, close Firefox (File > Exit OR Firefox button > Exit)
3. Click or double-click on the file you just saved to your desktop
   • In the installation window that appears, click the box to the left of "I have read and...." to place a check mark in the box
   • The "Install" button in the lower right corner will now be highlighted, click it.
   • The installation is quick.
4. Start Firefox and test your installation here: https://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/
5. To update/install the ActiveX version for IE only, repeat the process, but use IE to go to the above website.

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Not related to your question, but...

You may need to update some plug-ins. Check your plug-ins and update as necessary:

• Plug-in check --> http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/plugincheck/
• Adobe Shockwave for Director Netscape plug-in: Installing (or Updating) the Shockwave plugin with Firefox
• Adobe PDF Plug-In For Firefox and Netscape: Installing/Updating Adobe Reader in Firefox
• Shockwave Flash (Adobe Flash or Flash): Updating Flash in Firefox
• Next Generation Java Plug-in for Mozilla browsers: Installing or Updating Java in Firefox

Hello.

There is a workaround:

• Uninstall Firefox 8 (without deleting your profiles of course).
• Install Firefox 7.0.1 from Mozilla's FTP: ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/7.0.1/win32/ (choose your language)
• Install (or upgrade) Flash Player 11.1.102.55 from Adobe's website: http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer
• Upgrade Firefox 7.0.1 to Firefox 8.

The Flash plugin should be listed and enabled in the plugin manager of Firefox.

It is not necessary to downgrade to Firefox 7.0.1 to get Adobe Flashplayer installed. Just follow the steps in my post above. The original poster, DoctorCrow, marked the answer that I supplied as solving the problem without all the extra downgrade/upgrade steps.

Unfortunately both solutions/workarounds provided here didn't help me with what seemed to be the same problem as the original poster. What did help me was a solution provided here: http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/ques.../849425

In short the solution suggested was to copy the NPSWF32.dll file found in the directory (at least on my system):

C:\Windows\SysWOW64\Macromed\Flash\NPSWF32.dll

to my firefox plugins folder found here (again location may differ for you):

C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox\Plugins

As soon as I did that Flash was working again in FF 8.0.

Copying the Flash .dll file to the Firefox programs plugins folder will work, but

• you will need to remove that when you update Flash
• you may end up with 2 conflicting Flash plugins in the future if you lease the .dll file in the Firefox program plugins folder

It is best to get Flash working from its default installation folder

• See --> http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/191/tn_19166.html

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Be sure you installed the Flash 32-bits plugin, because Firefox is a 32-bits application on Windows. Remove current Flash EXEs and go to here: http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/191/tn_19166.html#main_Install_in_a_firewall_proxy_server_environment They download the link 32 bit Flash Player Plug-in (All other browsers). The plugin should appear in the plugin manager.