MOZILLA FIREFOX 14 WILL NOT UPDATE TO FIREFOX 15 IN WINDOWS 7, won't, can't, cannot

MOZILLA FIREFOX 14 WILL NOT UPDATE TO FIREFOX 15 IN WINDOWS 7

Firefox programmers are just as useless as those at Microsoft Internet Explorer. They drink coffee all day and then go home to play with their hardware.

They are paid to do a job then do something else, wasting their work hours away. You would not believe that programmers must be the most absent minded people in the world. They concentrate on putting useless complex things into software that users just will not use, but they forget to cover the basics.

There is a reason why Firefox 14 will not update to Firefox 15. Firefox 14 is installed in a Mozilla Firefox folder in the C: drive Programs Files folder in Windows 7 64bit. Oddly, Firefox 15 is installed in C:\users\name\AppData\local\Mozilla folder in Windows 7 32bit and in the 64bit. You are given no option to change it.

To see the AppData folder go to the "name" folder from "Users" in Explorer. Click "Organize". Click "Folder and search options". Click the "View" tab. Then click the little circle to the left of "Show hidden files, folders and drives".

You will need to access this folder later.

MOZILLA FIREFOX 14 WILL NOT UPDATE TO FIREFOX 15 IN WINDOWS 7

UPGRADING TO MOZILLA FIREFOX 15

Forget about Firefox 14 in the program folder for the moment. Download a fresh copy of Mozilla Firefox 15 and install it. Mozilla will just leave the old Firefox 14 where it is so you can drag out a fresh shortcut link from the exe file onto your desktop and run both versions. Aren't Firefox programmers clever. Don't tell them - they haven't noticed it yet!

Run Firefox 15 from the start menu or from the new link it "hopefully' put on your desktop. From the word GO you will get a warning band across the top of the page in the browser when you encounter a website with background sound. You will probably get a message telling you that you need to install Quicktime. After you install it you will get the warning again and again. You may get something else - a warning telling you that Quicktime has malfunctioned. Every time you go to a website with sound you will get the same warning. With no sound from Firefox 15 you go to Google, search and find this blog.

It is not a Quicktime problem!

MOZILLA FIREFOX 14 WILL NOT UPDATE TO FIREFOX 15 IN WINDOWS 7

SOLUTION

You can go to "Add-ons" and not see Windows Media Player there. Download Firefox WMP Plugin from here. You will probably still not get any sound.

Open this folder: C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox

(the old Firefox 14 folder)

In another window open this folder:
C:\Users\name\AppData\Local\Mozilla Firefox.
Be careful because it may be in a sub,sub folder like,
C:\Users\name\AppData\Local\Mozilla\Firefox.

Copy the "Plugins" folder from Firefox 14 to the folder of Firefox 15.

THE IDIOTS HAVE NOT PROVIDED A PLUGINS FOLDER IN FIREFOX 15. HOW COULD THEY POSSIBLE FORGET???

MOZILLA FIREFOX 14 WILL NOT UPDATE TO FIREFOX 15 IN WINDOWS 7

You will now have sound in Firefox 15. If you have already uninstalled Firefox 14 you can get the files in the Plugins folder from here.

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Mozilla Firefox Will Not Play Web Page Background Music/Sounds, Firefox QuickTime plugin has crashed, WMP Plugin

FIREFOX 10 WON'T PLAY BACKGROUND SOUNDS ON THE INTERNET

There is nothing worse than installing the latest version of a program, namely a browser and having all sorts of problems. When you go back to the previous version you find once again that there were none. With firefox 3 you get that damn inbuilt nag window saying there is a new version. Yes, a new version with problems.

The creators also changed the design: Who wants the black at the top to become transparent when the window is "normal" i.e, half size anyway?

A standard problem with version 10 and later of Mozilla Firefox is that when you go to a website that has background sound you get a warning message saying there is something wrong with the QuickTime Plugin. This is absolutely incorrect. QuickTime is perfectly okay. There is something wrong with your Windows Media Player Plugin.

If you go to "Tools", then "Add-ons" you will probably not see "Microsoft Windows Media Player Firefox Plugin 1.0.0.8." in there. Furthermore, if you click on "Get Add-ons" you will not find it on the internet either! Firefox creators don't tell you what to do if the standard installation fails to install it. I have installed Firefox 10 on a laptop and on a PC. The WMP Plugin was in the laptop "Add-ons" folder, but not in the PC "Add-ons" folder. Firefox like internet Explorer is becoming a strange monster.

THE FIREFOX FAULT

When you install Firefox 10.0 and above, sometimes you get a Plugins folder, sometimes you don't. It is a wonder how it runs without such a folder, but it does. If you cannot see a Plugins folder in the Mozilla Firefox 10 and higher program folder make one
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Go to the Program Files folder. Cursor down to the Mozilla Firefox folder. Double click it. Pull the vertical bar on the right side of the open folder down to the bottom. Put the point of the cursor just below the bottom file. Right click. Choose New, and Folder. You will see a new folder named "New Folder". Right click on the "New Folder" and rename it "Plugins". Make sure you use an upper case "P".

THE SOLUTION TO THE PROBLEM

Download the Firefox Media Player Plugin from here.

Close all the Firefox browsers you have open and install it.

Open Firefox 10 again and check the "Add-ons" again.

You will probably still not see "Microsoft Windows Media Player Firefox Plugin 1.0.0.8".

Download the needed dll files from here.

Open the RAR file and copy all of the files there into your new Plugins folder of Firefox 10.

Two or three of the files will already be there if a Plugins folder was installed. Just skip over them.

Close Firefox 10 or indeed version 27.0.1. and check "Add-ons". Again. You will see "Microsoft Windows Media Player Firefox Plugin 1.0.0.8" in the list.  If Windows Media Player is not on the list this is because the latest version of Firefox has hidden it away.

Enter "about:config" in the Firefox address bar and click the little arrow on the right.  Click "OK" to the message that pops up "This might void your warranty".  There is no warranty anyway.  A list will appear.  Find "plugins.load_appdir_plugins" on this list.  Double click it and the "false" will change to "true"

WMP will be in add-on now!

Restart Firefox.

Go to a web page you know has background sound and you find it will play with no warning messages.  If you still have problems download these extra three dll files from here.  Put them in the Plugins folder as well.

Good luck surfing the Internet.

Installed Quicktime on Firefox but There Is No Sound

You installed Quicktime on Firefox but there is no sound.

There are two reasons for this:

1. Webpages are written in HTML and the code orders that ".mp3", ".wav "and so on, will be played by Windows Media Player (WMP).

2. WMP is set as the default device to play all media.

Quicktime is seldom chosen by PC users as the default device but it is necessary to install Quicktime in Firefox because some webpages direct that Quicktime must play the film clip in the webpage. When Firefox is freshly installed and it detects any media in a webpage it asks whether you want to load Quicktime. This is despite the fact that it really wants WMP.

Download Quicktime for Firefox here - QUICKTIME

Download the Firefox WMP plugin here - WMP

You may have to go to the Download folder, either the one in C: or the one in the user folder (your name), and double click "QuickTimeInstaller.exe" and "wmpfirefoxplugin.exe" files to install Quicktime and WMP.

When you go to any website now music and video will automatically be played by either WMP or Quicktime.
    
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Installing Adobe Macromedia Shockwave to Work for Mozilla Firefox

For a clean installation it will be necessary to uninstall the Macromedia Shockwave Player program on your computer, re-install Shockwave Player, install the Shockwave initializing file for Firefox, then check whether shockplayer works.


UNINSTALLING THE EXISTING SHOCKWAVE PLAYER ON YOUR COMPUTER

Close Internet Explorer and all other programs except Audio manager and Color for screen.
Copy this file and run it:

http://tysaustralia.com/Macromedia_Shockwave_Uninstaller.exe

Run a Registry Editor program to remove old registry settings.

Reboot your computer.


INSTALLING MACROMEDIA SHOCKWAVE

Download the file "Shockwave_Installer_Full.exe" by going to this URL:

http://www.download3k.com/DownloadLink1-Macromedia-Shockwave-Player.html

Run and install.


INSTALLING THE SHOCKWAVE "INITIALIZE" FILE FOR FIREFOX

Macromedia Shockwave will work in Mozilla Firefox if you enter this URL:

http://tysaustralia.com/Authorware_Web_Player_Plugin.exe

Then download and install the file.


TEST WHETHER SHOCKWAVE WORKS IN FIREFOX

Do not go to,

http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/welcome/

to test your Macromedia Authorware Web Player installation. This test site does not work properly and will show that shockwave is not working when it could be.

Enter this URL into Internet Explorer:

http://www.adobe.com/products/shockwaveplayer/gokart/

A yellow band may appear at the top of the webpage asking if you want to install Macromedia Authorware Web Player. If this happens, click this band and follow the instructions.When you have completed the Authorware Web Player installation again the game will load to show that Adobe Macromedia Shockwave is working.

You will find Shockwave is already working in Chrome, but not in IE, however.
Go to "Installing Adobe Macromedia Shockwave Player to Work for Internet Explorer"


Installing Adobe Macromedia Shockwave Player to Work for Internet Explorer
Installing Adobe FlashMX to Run/Open SWF Files
Installing Adobe Flash Player to Work for Internet Explorer
Installing Adobe Flash Player to Work for Mozilla Firefox
Installing a Program to Run SWF Files
Disabling UAC for a Program

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Installing Adobe Macromedia Flash Player to Work in Mozilla Firefox

HOW TO SUCCESSFULLY INSTALL ADOBE FLASH PLAYER SO IT WORKS FOR MOZILLA FIREFOX

It will be necessary to uninstall and re-install Adobe Flash Player before setting up the Mozilla Firefox Flash Player plugin. All old registry settings must be removed.


UNINSTALLING FLASH PLAYER
Download the Flash Player file "uninstall_flash_player.exe" by entering this URL address into IE address line:

http://download.macromedia.com/pub/flashplayer/current/uninstall_flash_player.exe

Save the file to a location of your choosing, probably the "Download" folder.
Close Mozilla Firefox and all other programs except Audio manager and Color for screen.
Double Click the file to run it. Restart the computer.
When the computer has booted run a Registry Editor program to remove old registry settings.
Restart the computer.


INSTALLING FLASH PLAYER

Download the Flash Player file "Install_Flash_Player_10_ActiveX.zip" by entering this URL address into IE address line:

http://www.adobe.com/support/flashplayer/ts/documents/tn_19166/Install_Flash_Player_10_ActiveX.zip

Save the file to a location of your choosing, probably the "Download" folder.
Close Mozilla Firefox and all other programs except Audio manager and "color" for screen.
Go to the "Install_Flash_Player_10_ActiveX.zip" file which will be in a subfolder called "Install_Flash_Player_10_ActiveX.zip" in the "Download" folder.
Double click the file "Install_Flash_Player_10_ActiveX.zip" to install.
Restart the computer.


INSTALLING THE MOZILLA FIREFOX ADOBE FLASH PLAYER PLUGIN

Enter this URL into the address line of Firefox:

http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/xpi/current/flashplayer-win.xpi

Save the "flashplayer-win.xpi" file in the "Downloads" folder as "flashplayer-win.zip"

Note the change from ".xpi" to.zip". Unzip the file. Copy both "flashplayer.xpt" and "NPSWF32.dll" files to "C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\plugins\".

Close Firefox and open it again.

Mozilla Firefox will now show flash in websites.

Check the installation by entering "http://dagobah.biz/flash/dancing_cat.swf" into the Firefox address line and press "Enter".

You should see a dancing cat.

PROBLEMS WITH ADOBE FLASH PLAYER

SWF files in folders on your computer cannot be opened with Adobe Flash Player even if you have done a clean Adobe Flash install.

If you left click on an SWF file an Adobe update window will appear. follow the instructions and download the latest version of Flash Player. You already have the latest version - Adobe Flash Player version 10.0.22.87.

To use another program to open SWF file go to either of these two articles:

Installing a Program to Run SWF Files

or

Installing Macromedia Adobe FlashMX to Run/Open SWF Files


DIFFERENCES BETWEEN ADOBE SHOCKWAVE PLAYER AND ADOBE FLASH PLAYER

If you install the latest version of Shockwave it will install in the
C:\Windows\System32\Adobe\Shockwave 11\ Folder.

Click "Start", "Control Panel", "Control Panel Home", then "Uninstall a program". You will see that "Adobe Flash Player 10 ActiveX" and Adobe Shockwave Player 11.5 are both installed.

Adobe Shockwave Player is for 3D games and entertainment, interactive product demonstrations, and online learning applications. Having just Adobe Flash installed is sufficient for most computer users. Install Adobe Shockwave Player if you feel you must.

Open Firefox. In Google search, type "animals swf"and Enter. Press Ctrl+Alt+Delete. Click "Start Task Manager". Look down the list of programs that are running. You will see that "FlashUtil10B,exe" is running. Adobe Shockwave player is not running.

MAKING SHOCKWAVE WORK WITH FIREFOX

Macromedia Shockwave will work in Mozlla Firefox if you go to this site,

http://tysaustralia.com/Authorware_Web_Player_Plugin.exe

then download and install the file.

TEST WHETHER SHOCKWAVE WORKS IN FIREFOX

Do not go to,

http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/welcome/

to test your Macromedia Authorware Web Player installation.
This test site does not work properly and will show that shockwave is not working when it could be.

Enter this URL into Internet Explorer:

http://www.adobe.com/products/shockwaveplayer/gokart/

A yellow band will appear at the top of the webpage asking if you want to install Macromedia Authorware Web Player. Click this band and follow the instructions.When you have completed the Authorware Web Player installation the game will load to show that Adobe Macromedia Shockwave is working.

Installing Adobe Macromedia Shockwave Player to Work for Mozilla Firefox
Installing Adobe Macromedia Shockwave Player to Work for Internet Explorer
Installing MacromediaAdobe FlashMX to Run/Open SWF Files
Installing Macromedia Adobe Flash Player for Internet Explorer
Installing a Program to Run SWF Files
Disabling UAC for a Program

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