Re: OT: Flash Players

[Tim <ignored_mailbox yahoo com au>]

On Fri, 2005-09-30 at 14:50 -0700, Thomas Taylor wrote:
> Are Macromedia Flash Player and Shockwave Flash Player the same thing?  If 
> not, can they co-exist on one browser?

No, but I don't think it's necessary.  Flash simply does Flash,
Shockwave does Flash and its own extras.

> I'm using Firefox 1.0.7 under FC4 with the Shockwave Flash Player installed 
> and enabled but the flash items won't displaybut instead displays "click here 
> to download flashplayer plugin".  When I do that installation, nothing 
> changes, it still won't display.

To install software through the browser, you need to enable the setting
that allows that.  You *may* need to be a root user to install software,
too.

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