Adobe Flash Problem Solved...

Adobe Flash Problem Solved...

After almost a week of being unable to access flash footage on Opera 10.51, and after removing and reinstalling Opera a total of 6 times, and removing and reinstalling Adobe flash 10 a total of 3 times, having cleared all cookies and cache, then performing a disk clean up and defragging my computer and still not being able to access anything that requires FLASH,

i thought i'd better go through and check all the basic settings in the "Tools" section, and it was in the "quick preferences" section that i discovered what had been p155ing me off for so long, I noticed that for some unknown reason the "enable plug ins" box was disabled, so just by simply turning it back on i now have Adobe flash up and running again on Opera 10.51...

So, if anybody else is still having problems accessing anything that requires flash, click on TOOLS > scroll down and click on QUICK PREFERENCES > then make sure that ENABLE PLUG INS is turned on,, Happy surfing,,, Marc..

Thank you. This seems helpful, but I am stuck with another Flash problem:

A website I am trying to visit is replying with:

You do not have the required Macromedia Flash Plugin to view the Flash Animation.
You may download the latest Flash Plugin from Macromedia Site

Wouldn't it be Adobe Flash? I uninstalled and reinstalled the current download version (might be the same), but the problem remains in Opera and FireFox. Could it be an old site that only works on old systems?

Originally posted by zager:

A website I am trying to visit is replying with:

You do not have the required Macromedia Flash Plugin to view the Flash Animation.
You may download the latest Flash Plugin from Macromedia Site

It turns out the website is built wrong, and the message is bogus.

The wiki on "Flash" indicates big security problems with "Flash". What is the impact to common internet use if Flash is removed? Do YouTube and other giant sites depend on Flash?

Flash is used most often for a variety of things; YouTube uses Flash when streaming MP4 video from their site (although they have an HTML5 Beta http://www.youtube.com/html5 , but it's not yet available for Opera) while many of the games you've seen and play (like on MySpace, Facebook, etc) are written entirely in Flash.

In the mid-to-late nineties the only other competition out there for small applications (like games) in a browser was Java. These days most of the time when you encounter streaming vid or an interactive app you're utilizing Adobe Flash.

But there is a movement to ween users off the need for this plugin.

I yuotube if I click on the video does not start, and I say old flash although I have already updated, I always have to double click on the arrow at the top

I have problems with YouTube a lot too, although it's mostly when the videos are embedded in another web page and not on the official site. Usually I have to refresh. I can't find the bug either, but I'm running a different OS most likely.

I have OS Vista

I usually run Ubuntu, this laptop has 9.10 on it.

I just came here to see if there happened to be a sudden flood of threads about YouTube. I've been using it without problems in 10.51, until tonight where I'm now seeing the "Old Flash? Go upgrade!" message on every video I've tried playing. I also took the advice and tried upgrading Flash (and followed the advice in this thread and checked whether plugins were turned on - they were), but still no luck.
Flash videos on other sites I've checked appear to work fine (as I would expect them to).

This is a pretty major problem though. I can live with having to fire up IE or Chrome once or twice a day for certain sites, but that's really not a good solution for something like YouTube I sometimes use irregularly throughout the day.

same problem with youtube....

I am having the go upgrade problem with youtube again. It started pretty recently , it was working this morning fine, then all the sudden, the old version go upgrade thing appears.
I tried updating, I cleared my cookies, doesn't seem to be working this time...
Anyone have a fix for this? or are we SOL till youtube or opera fixes it?

Maybe the title of this thread should be changed. As the problem is in fact not yet solved.

i have the same problem ,and flash player wont work only @ youtube,i can watch videos on other web sites...

First time I've seen the message too. I don't need to upgrade: I have version 10,0,45,2 installed, which is the latest version. Why is this message showing only in Opera? It must be a site coding problem because it was working fine earlier today.

Right click on page -> Edit Site Preferences... -> Go to "Network" tab -> Set "Browser Identification" as "Mask as Firefox"
Reload page -> enjoy

Originally posted by jinru:

Right click on page -> Edit Site Preferences... -> Go to "Network" tab -> Set "Browser Identification" as "Mask as Firefox"
Reload page -> enjoy

Doesn't work for me. I've tried all the available options (what's the difference between Identify and Mask by the way?).

Originally posted by jinru:

Right click on page -> Edit Site Preferences... -> Go to "Network" tab -> Set "Browser Identification" as "Mask as Firefox"
Reload page -> enjoy

Does not seem to work for me

Oh no.. I just finally got forced to use the new Youtube design, and now I'm getting this error. I've tried clearing cookies and cache, and masking as Firefox, but it still doesn't work. I tried the new design before, and I wasn't getting that message then. Using the latest Flash version and snapshot on Windows 7.

http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/youtube/label?lid=685878cd44b81c60&hl=en

already a few threads in youtube bug support, hope they are working on it

I posted this in the other thread and I know you're not to cross post, but since it is a pretty huge issue...

I found a sort of workaround. You can click on the "embed" link below the video and use the url inside that code.

Or manually like this example below:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BnLbv6QYcA <- Link does not work give you "upgrade" error

change it to:

http://www.youtube.com/v/9BnLbv6QYcA <- Now it will work, click this link to test


It is shown in fullscreen though. To me it looks like a problem with the youtube interface. Wether it's Opera or Youtube it is probably not a Flash issue as all videos play just fine. So you can stop reinstalling flash a dozen times like tried :-)


Not a fix, but at least you can watch a video if you need to until fixed.

Also, you can go to the user's channel and watch video fine, like this for example,

http://www.youtube.com/user/TheOnion

This issue also presented itself to Safari and Chrome in February, and it was indeed a problem with YouTubes new page format (which was in beta at the time I guess)

http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/youtube/thread?tid=66bf17cbe7553e68&hl=en

However, even with that on the table I guess there is a small chance that Opera's new javascript engine might have a bug where its falling through (or jumping through.. its a compiler now.. so maybe a badly calculated branch target?) some of the testing logic in the page.

Google sux!

A Google user named Snap100 posted a solution, and I have hosted it on my own website; set up a UserJS directory in your Opera Preferences and save this file to that directory: http://lewisje.com/YoutubeProtectionRemover.js

Umm ... could you give me step-by-step directions
1. open a Windows browser and navigate to c:\Program Files\Opera\?????
and so on.

Thanks.

Thank you Madowney63. You have just saved a lot of my sanity.
Though, it still doesn't work for youtube, assuming that's because they're lame and don't support Opera. ><
But! At least I can play videos on every other site. =D
Thanks!!!
~May

this is really annoying!

Originally posted by JLBeamish:

Umm ... could you give me step-by-step directions
1. open a Windows browser and navigate to c:\Program Files\Opera\?????
and so on.

Thanks.

1. Go to Tools>Preferences>Advanced>Content>JavaScript Options and look at where the "User JavaScript folder" is.

2a. If it is set already, go there in your file-manager (like Windows Explorer, or Mac OS X Finder, or Nautilus on GNOME, or Dolphin on KDE) and copy that UserJS file to that directory; then click "Cancel" twice to leave the Preferences dialog.

2b. If it is blank, figure out where you want the directory to be, possibly making a new one somewhere, and copy the UserJS file to it; then copy the full path to the directory into the "User JavaScript folder" field (or click "Choose" and navigate to that directory) and click "OK" twice to leave the Preferences dialog.

3. Refresh the tab where you were trying to watch the Youtube video if you already had it loaded, or try to watch a YouTube video in a new tab if you hadn't, and if it doesn't work, try restarting Opera; you may need to restart after changing the location of your User JavaScript folder.





Different people have different preferences for their userscript directories; I set mine up for the first time back when the SomethingAwful Last Read extension for Firefox was being ported to Opera as a set of userscripts with a background dæmon and a little console app, so on Windows I go to C:\Program Files\Opera (on 64-bit Windows with 32-bit Opera, it would be C:\Program Files (x86)\Opera) and make a new directory called "salr" and make that my userscript folder.
When I got an old iMac a while ago to fiddle around with, I kept the convention even though the poor man's SALR doesn't quite work on the Mac, and because it's not a good idea to add subfolders to .app bundles the way you would to subdirectories of Program Files (when you copy one .app bundle or even one directory over another, the whole thing gets replaced, rather than copying file-by-file and only overwriting files with the same name), I used ~/Library/Application Support/Opera and made a "salr" directory there (on OS X and other Unix-like systems, ~ is the user's home directory, an alias for something like /Users/lewisje or /home/lewisje, while on Windows it's the much more ungainly %UserProfile%, an alias for something like C:\Documents and Settings\lewisje or C:\Users\lewisje).
Meanwhile, on Linux (I dual-boot), I put the salr directory in ~/.opera because on Linux and most other Unix-like systems, there is no real analogue to the Windows %ProgramFiles% where each application gets its own directory with all of its executables and libraries and other common resources; rather the executables are often in /usr/bin or /usr/local/bin and the libraries are in /usr/lib, and most programs rely on lots of shared system-wide resources in /bin or /lib...so it's easier to use the user-data directory in Linux rather than the program directory as in Windows.

(Windows does have system-wide executables and libraries in %SystemRoot%, which may be C:\WINDOWS or C:\WINNT, and in the System32 or System subdirectory, but applications normally bundle their own copies of Qt, wxWidgets, GTK, FreeType, libavcodec, or whatever other non-Windows libraries are needed, rather than putting them into %SystemRoot%\System32 to share among apps; some may say this is a good thing in case some apps rely on quirks of older versions of libraries, but IMO it's all mainly a result of the lack of a dependency-checking package management system for Windows.)

The Opera wizards are on the case! http://twitter.com/opera/status/12205227779

Have patience all.

Originally posted by vicenzo2009:

I having this problem too, I guess we just have to wait for Youtube to solve it

Just a few posts up is a UserScript that will solve all your problems; in case my explanation sounds like a wall of text, I'll repeat the steps, but just the ones that apply to 32-bit Windows users who have never set up a User JavaScript folder before:

1. Download http://lewisje.com/YoutubeProtectionRemover.js to your desktop by right-clicking and choosing "Save Linked Content As..."
2. Open My Computer and go to C:\Program Files\Opera
3. Make a new folder titled "salr" (without quotation marks)
4. Move that .js file you just downloaded to this folder: C:\Program Files\Opera\salr
4a. To keep Flash, Java, and other plugins from auto-launching, save this file to that directory too (Enable On Demand Plugin doesn't work as well yet): http://ruzanow.ru/userjs/allblocker.js
5. In Opera, go to the Tools menu and choose Preferences, or just hold Ctrl and press F12.
6. Go to the Advanced tab, choose Content, and click the "JavaScript Options..." button.
7. Type "C:\Program Files\Opera\salr" (without quotation marks) where it says "User JavaScript folder"
8. Click OK twice.
9. Refresh any tabs that had YouTube videos in them and they should play; if you loaded the AllBlocker userscript, just click the little image to make the video load.

Be sure to delete Youtube's cookies before you try the javascript. Otherwise Youtube boots you out anyway.

Originally posted by Lonesome Bullet:

Be sure to delete Youtube's cookies before you try the javascript. Otherwise Youtube boots you out anyway.

I didn't need to do that: If you were just setting up your userscript directory for the first time, you may need to re-start the browser; I already had one set up so the userscript worked right away.

Any official comment from Opera Software?

Hi!
I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask my question but anyway I will. Yesterday I did upgrade my flash player as required and yet wnen I try to play a video in youtube it sais I have an old version. When I do it on Mozilla I don't have any problems. If someone could explain to me why is that I'd be very gratefull.
Thanks

Originally posted by CsendesMark:

Any official comment from Opera Software?

Yes, I think: http://twitter.com/opera/status/12205227779

Originally posted by techwoo:

Hi!
I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask my question but anyway I will. Yesterday I did upgrade my flash player as required and yet wnen I try to play a video in youtube it sais I have an old version. When I do it on Mozilla I don't have any problems. If someone could explain to me why is that I'd be very gratefull.
Thanks

Read the post of lewisje above (http://my.opera.com/community/forums/findpost.pl?id=5125231). It is a temporal fix.

Resuming: It seems that is google's fault, because Safari, Firefox and even Chrome had this problem like a month ago: http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/youtube/thread?tid=66bf17cbe7553e68&hl=en

1) open any YouTube page
2) RMB -> Edit Site Preferences
3) on tab "Network" change "Identify as Opera" to "Identify as Firefox"
3) on tab "Cookies" click "Delete" button until all old cookies are gone
3) reload page (restart opera if you want)

should work
also you can check "Delete new cookies when exiting Opera" on "Cookies" tab.

Originally posted by Mordekhai:

1) open any YouTube page
2) RMB -> Edit Site Preferences
3) on tab "Network" change "Identify as Opera" to "Identify as Firefox"
3) on tab "Cookies" click "Delete" button until all old cookies are gone
3) reload page (restart opera if you want)

should work
also you can check "Delete new cookies when exiting Opera" on "Cookies" tab.

didn't work, that's why I've been telling people about the userscript

Like most posters here have problem: "Flashplayer" /youtube
Im almost post new thread.

but .... i read "something" so:

In my case i have error on youtube "old flash! go upgrade!"
I've search whole forum and some other and no one solve this, but i done this.

i reinstalling opera 3 times and flash player as well, will not work.

Solve:
Adress Barr : 'opera:config'
Search: "Enable On Demand"

tick both (if u dont have )

end .

when doing so, youtube loads infinite. solve: abort loading the page and then you can watch the youtube video

Originally posted by Rijk:

Use 'Help > Check for Updates' to get the freshly updated browser.js that will work around the Youtube problem for now. With this update, you don't need to manually install a user javascript anymore.

Originally posted by lewisje:

Originally posted by JLBeamish:

Umm ... could you give me step-by-step directions
1. open a Windows browser and navigate to c:\Program Files\Opera\?????
and so on.

Thanks.

1. Go to Tools>Preferences>Advanced>Content>JavaScript Options and look at where the "User JavaScript folder" is.

Thank you for that excellent step-by-step tutorial. Before I even had a chance to enter it this evening, I did a quick visit to YouTube and they seem to have sorted everything out. I've had other issues with Opera and Flash so I think -- this time! -- that I will leave Opera unchanged but I have bookmarked your solution in case I ever need it in the future.

Once again, thank you for taking the time to, so clearly, tell me how to implement your solution.

Cheers!

^I think Opera was the one who solved the problem, by updating browser.js to work around a "magically obscure bug"
full comment in the browser.js is "PATCH-234, Flash detection fails due to magically obscure bug"
Snap100's UserJS does the same sort of thing as the official patch, so I don't think you'll hurt anything by keeping the userscript around.
If anyone hasn't gotten the new browser.js, or just in case, go to Help>Check for Updates and you will get the newest version of browser.js even there are no updates for Opera itself; you can also wait up to a week for Opera to automatically fetch the new browser.js

Originally posted by BigStach:

Like most posters here have problem: "Flashplayer" /youtube
Im almost post new thread.

but .... i read "something" so:

In my case i have error on youtube "old flash! go upgrade!"
I've search whole forum and some other and no one solve this, but i done this.

i reinstalling opera 3 times and flash player as well, will not work.

Solve:
Adress Barr : 'opera:config'
Search: "Enable On Demand"

tick both (if u dont have )

end .

Enable On Demand Plugin has problems working with YouTube (or with your PDF plugin); I still prefer this userscript to keep plugins from auto-loading: http://ruzanow.ru/userjs/allblocker.js

Use 'Help > Check for Updates' to get the freshly updated browser.js that will work around the Youtube problem for now. With this update, you don't need to manually install a user javascript anymore.


Well, that worked for me ! BIG THANX !

It's definitely OPERA that gets the credit for solving this. Five minutes ago, YouTube was still not working for me. I read where Pesala said that Opera said to click "CHECK FOR UPDATES" under "help" on Opera. I clicked it....and tried YouTube again....and it works!

lewisje,

Thanks, but the scripts did not work (9.64 on xp). Cookies are off (solved another issue the other day) and I cycled opera off and back on. ????

PROBLEM SOLVED !!!!! :-)
FOR VISTA: start IE, and update
STARTING THE OPERA
YOUTUBE STARTING FROM IE AND START VIDEO
STARTING AND STARTING WORK FROM YOUTUBE VIDEO
I solved ':-)

I've done as lewisje advises but I'm a little confused . When I load YouTube to view a video I get the screen with the 'play' icon on it which I click. then I get a message in the top left of said screen which says 'plug-in content' which I have to click in order for the video to start. Is this right as it seems a bit long-winded to view content ?

i have found 1 solution just follow the steps and u'll get whateva u want.

1) goto tools.
2) then goto preferences and click on it.
3) then goto advanced tab and click on it.
4) u'll see on your left hand side "content" tab. click on it.
5) u'll see "javascript options" button. click on it.
6) u'll see a new window open then u find downward there is an option to choose a folder for the "user java script folder" just along with that there is " choose" button. click on it.
7) after that a new window open to choose a folder for the plugin. so here is the plugin folder. goto "drive c" where u install opera then go to "program files" and then goto "opera folder" then goto "program folder" and select the folder "plugin" the path would be like that C:\Program Files\Opera\program\plugins. just select it. and click on and for the preferences click ok again .
8) all done.

Sorry, none of this works for me. I have this problem on amazon.co.uk when I want to preview songs before buying. It says "To view this content, download Flash player (version 8.0.0.0 or higher)", and I have the latest Flash player installed. I tried all the suggestions above, but no joy. Back to Firefox after all those years with Opera... Very frustrating. And this is not the only problem with the latest versions of Opera...

@ abidaine Yeah I'm with you there but I am sticking with Opera for now ! Opera does so many things Firefox doesn't and I was using Firefox for years. I don't want to go back to Firefox and IE8 is no good and neither is Safari. i don't have that problem with Amazon though. Did you use the Flash uninstall tool and then re-install flash ?

http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/141/tn_14157.html

I use the same flash plugin with I.E, Firefox, Chrome and Opera, that is : NPSWF32.dll

I then tested with several servers at speedtest.net (data throughput and ping).

The fastest was Chrome followed by I.E, Firefox, then lastly Opera. No matter what the server, and where in the world, the results
are always the same, with a ratio of about 3:1 between Chrome and Opera.

How could I have got 4 different speeds using the same flash player ?

nothing works for me either. I am trying to view Sonyrewards.com but the flash does not appear. it worked fine before updating but now it wont load.

Adobe Flash Problem Solved...
After almost a week of being unable to access flash footage on Opera 10.51, and after removing and reinstalling Opera a total of 6 times, and removing and reinstalling Adobe flash 10 a total of 3 times, having cleared all cookies and cache, then performing a disk clean up and defragging my computer and still not being able to access anything that requires FLASH,

i thought i'd better go through and check all the basic settings in the "Tools" section, and it was in the "quick preferences" section that i discovered what had been p155ing me off for so long, I noticed that for some unknown reason the "enable plug ins" box was disabled, so just by simply turning it back on i now have Adobe flash up and running again on Opera 10.51...

So, if anybody else is still having problems accessing anything that requires flash, click on TOOLS > scroll down and click on QUICK PREFERENCES > then make sure that ENABLE PLUG INS is turned on,, Happy surfing,,, Marc..

I've been experiencing this very annoying problem for some time now but thanks to you I'm back to happy camping

Hi, I need help I have tried almost everything in the forums but nothing works for me. Some days ago the flash player updated and from the I cant see any video in any browser, I have tried in opera, google chrome, mozilla and E8 but none of then worked. When a click to play a video it load but when I play it the screen its green and the browser stops working I have the latest opera updates and also the latest FF updates and I don't know what to do plz help.

P.D: pardon my english its not very good

Hello, welcome to the Opera forums.

Internet Explorer uses a different plugin than the Netscape type of plugin used by Firefox, Opera, etc. Since Flash is not working for you with any browser, there may be a system conflict. This Adobe page will show you the version of Flash detected: http://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/

Troubleshooting Flash: http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/191/tn_19166.html
Adobe recommends to use their uninstaller when having problems: http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/141/tn_14157.html

If after removing and reinstalling Flash it still does not work in Opera, find out where your Opera preferences are stored on your OS. Help > About Opera or type opera:about in the address bar. Then quit Opera and rename or move operaprefs.ini to the Trash or someplace. Restart Opera and a new operaprefs.ini set to the factory defaults will be created.