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13 Sep 2009, 6:03 pm

So you all are definately the smartest people I know by far. Many great minds. Anyway, I am having MAC issues. About 3 days ago, I was prompted to download the newest version of Adobe Flash player 10 and ever since then, my flash has not worked at all. Whenever I go to a site that has flash I get this message,

"this page has content of MIME type “application/x-shockwave-flash”, but you don’t have a plug-in for this MIME type. This page may have the plug-in for you to download and install:

http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/dow ... kwaveFlash"

I have gone to the site and downloaded and installed the player and it never works. I have uninstalled it and tried again. I have tried reinstalled version 9, I have visisted many Mac help sites and tried repairing permissions, changing settings, etc. None of its worked!! !

This is really frustrating, can any of you help? Can you direct me to a good site that can?

thanks!



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13 Sep 2009, 6:31 pm

What version of OS X and what browser and browser version are you using?



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13 Sep 2009, 6:38 pm

OS X is 10.5.8
I use Safari 4.0.3



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13 Sep 2009, 6:51 pm

If you go to the Help menu and choose Installed Plug-ins what does it say for Shockwave Flash?



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13 Sep 2009, 6:58 pm

file:///Applications/Safari.app/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/Plug-ins.html

this is in the menu bar, but otherwise the screen is blank



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13 Sep 2009, 7:18 pm

If you go to Safari:Preferences...:Security is Enable plug-ins checked?



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13 Sep 2009, 8:02 pm

Yes, "Enable Plug ins" is checked



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13 Sep 2009, 9:52 pm

Click on the Finder icon(the smiley face usually in the dock at the bottom left of the screen), then click on your hard drive, then open up Library and then Internet Plug-Ins.

What items are inside the Internet Plug-Ins folder?



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13 Sep 2009, 10:22 pm

it says "0 plug ins" I'm gonna guess that's bad



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13 Sep 2009, 10:22 pm

Here's how you fix Flash: remove it from your computer and do not use sites that rely on Flash.

Lazy designers ought to be taught how to develop pages using proper Web standards. An interactive widget in a corner of a site is one thing, but to make site navigation in Flash or worse yet the entire site in Flash, is MADNESS! :x :rambo:



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13 Sep 2009, 10:25 pm

Dilbert,
As much as I agree with you, (being married to a web designer) THIS VERY SITE is one of the biggest offenders of the problems I am having. What's a web gal to do?