03 Jan 11 Flash not working in Firefox? Solution: downgrade

I had noticed that for some time Flash had not been displaying properly in Firefox.  In fact, not displaying at all, yet behaving absolutely absolutely normally in Internet Explorer.  I had ignored this but when you have to design web pages that require some Flash content the problem becomes impossible to ignore.  I tried the usual Mozilla support forums and came across helpful pages such as ‘Flash not working properly after update to Firefox 3.6.7‘, but of course, the problem remained.  I tried numerous other trouble shooting fixes, some of which involved uninstalling then reinstalling the Flash plugin while others involved creating a new user profile within Firefox.  I’ve lost count of how many solutions I tried but none of them worked.  The problem seems to be quite widespread judging by the number of people reporting to Mozilla that they too have this problem.

The solution was incredibly simple as is usually the case…

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Tags: Add-ons, Adobe Flash, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Microsoft Windows, Mozilla, Mozilla Firefox, Uninstaller, Windows, Windows Vista