How to install Shockwave player plug-in in Opera
Wednesday, 6. February 2008, 05:17:33
In a very ideal world installing plug-in in a browser( for example opera) should a piece of cake. Isn't it? For example, if you want to install shockwave player plug-in, just go to adobe shockwave site, download the installer file, install and enjoy shockwave content in opera browser.
Even Grand Mom can do it!
Well here is the twist. What if after installing, shockwave does not work? Trouble starts. What is the reason and what is the fix? Good question but equally difficult to answer!
Even Grand Mom can do it! Well here is the twist. What if after installing, shockwave does not work? Trouble starts. What is the reason and what is the fix? Good question but equally difficult to answer!
It is often observed that the shockwave player installer sometimes fails to copy the required plug-in files to opera plug-in folder and also opera can't detect the shockwave plug-ins from shockwave's own directory either. In such case, you need to manually copy those plug-in files(NP32DSW.DLL and SHOCKWAVEPLUGIN.CLASS) to opera's plug-in directory(usually, c:\program files>opera>program>plugin).
How to get those files ? if you downloaded the plug-in installer, extract files from that using something like universal extractor. Then you will find those plug-in files there. Alternately,get the plugin files from this zip file and extract them to opera's plug-in directory.(c:\program files>opera>program>plugin). if you use this method, make sure you uninstalled shockwave that you might have installed during your first trial.[Update: here is shockwave 11 files which I have not tested yetshockwave 11 files.zip].
Start opera. Go to this page to see if the shockwave plug-in is detected or not. Also check, tools>advanced>plug-ins to see if you can find any entry for shockwave.Typically,
Shockwave for Director
application/x-director dcr
C:\Program Files\Opera\Program\Plugins\NP32DSW.DLL
Note: If you see multiple entries, you need to delete the entry which is in opera's plug-in folder and keep the one which is in plug-in's original location(such as c:\windows>system32>macromed>shockwave).
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illiad # 20. April 2008, 10:42
- so goto filehippo, and get Shockwave_10.2.0.023_Installer!
this forum post may help -
http://my.opera.com/community/forums/findpost.pl?id=2523410
brettyfxu # 9. April 2009, 02:43
Just wait till it stuffs up. then open it again and it'll be fine!!!!
illiad # 10. April 2009, 17:16