On 7/15/12 6:30 PM, Rufus wrote: > Paul Bergsagel wrote: >> Rufus wrote: >> >>>>> Dave >>>> There are two versions of flash. >>>> One for IE and one for non IE. >>>> SM uses the non IE. It used to, anyways. >>> >>> Not anymore, according to this page - >>> >>> https://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/ >> Please re-read this page. There are TWO versions of Flash available >> (Chrome has Flash built to its code and doesn't require a separate >> software download to get the Flash functionalities). >> >> Reading from the Adobe page I can see there are two different versions >> of Flash for Windoows. One uses ActiveX Controls and plugins. The other >> is a browser plug-in and provides flash for plug-in based browsers. >> >> I will quote from the Adobe page for you: >> (under platform Windows): >> 1. Internet Explorer (and other browsers that support Internet Explorer >> ActiveX controls and plug-ins) >> >> 2. Firefox, Mozilla, Netscape, Opera (and other plugin-based browsers >> [i.e. SeaMonkey]) >> > > Go back and look at it again, and look at the *version numbers* for each > of those two lines - they are identical. > >> SeaMonkey cannot use the ActiveX version of Flash. I.E. if you use it on >> your computer will use this version of Flash. To use Flash with >> SeaMonkey you need to install the plug-in version of Flash. If you only >> install the ActiveX version Flash will work with I.E. but not with >> SeaMonkey, FireFox or Opera. To get Flash to work with SeaMonkey, >> FireFox or Opera you need to install the plug-in version of Flash. Don't >> assume that if Flash works with I.E. that it should also work with >> SeaMonkey. Flash will not work with SeaMonkey unless you have the flash >> plugin (NOT flash activeX control) installed. >> > > From the look of the Adobe link, Flash now takes care of that for > itself...if one can judge that by the identical version number listings. > >> There are two Flash software downloads for Windows--one for I.E. and >> another for most other browsers. Make sure you download the plug-in >> based Flash and Flash will work with SeaMonkey. >> > > The only different version numbers are for Linux and Solaris platforms, > bringing the total number of versions available to three - but only one > of them is listed for Windows - 11.3.300.265; including Chrome. >
The version number are indeed the same, but the software is different. See <http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/distribution3.html>. The .exe file to install for Internet Explorer is 8.8 MB. The .exe file to install the plugin for Gecko-based browsers and Opera is 9.4 MB. -- David E. Ross <http://www.rossde.com/>. Anyone who thinks government owns a monopoly on inefficient, obstructive bureaucracy has obviously never worked for a large corporation. © 1997 by David E. Ross _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
