Firefox, Flash and the rage against corporate IT environments

[simongr]

Hi all

A question for the technolmologically minded of you. I am currently testing a new laptop build and have a small issue.

As I have a pathological desire not to use any MS product unless I have to I am currently running firefox portable as my web browser instead of the default IE7.

The challenge I am having is that flash enabled websites are not working under Firefox. Initially I thought this was because of restrictions on Flash on this machine but it seems that I can run flash enabled sites under IE7.

Given that I can't install plugins due to restrictions on this computer - does anyone have any idea what I am doing wrong in my FF settings to allow Flash?

Cheers

S

 

[Homer]

Hopefully there's a Firefox guru out there for you. I'm a Chrome user on Windows and a Safari user on OS X, but I Googled your issue and found this link that might help: Installing Flash Player Plugin on Firefox without having Administrator Access or Premissions | Varesano.net

 

[notzac]

Homer is right on the money - you have to grab the flash plugin file and put it in to your Plugins directory.

Edit: this may be easier - http://portableapps.com/node/15501

 

[simongr]

Thanks guys - served me right - I should have googled it myself - google does truly know the answer to everything...

 

[tuapekastar]

Thanks guys - served me right - I should have googled it myself - google does truly know the answer to everything...

It even gives answers if you google "understanding women"

Not sure if that's actually possible though. :shock:

 

[notzac]

Off topic I know (here? never! :shock but one of my favourite sites for answering questions that Google knows the answer to is:

Let me google that for you

Bonus round - complete with search string (check the link):

Let me google that for you

There are less-nice versions of the same sort of thing ... you can Google for those

 

[bambbbam2]

We moved last weekend from IE6 to IE7.

What a piece of cough. It takes around 45 seconds to load our intranet homepage, literally the screen goes white and the whole PC locks up as soon as you press the IE icon.

I've shown a few people now how to set a blank page as the start page, it's much quicker but I get the feeling IT will attempt to stifle me again.

 

[Flashback]

We moved last weekend from IE6 to IE7.

What a piece of cough. It takes around 45 seconds to load our intranet homepage, literally the screen goes white and the whole PC locks up as soon as you press the IE icon.

I've shown a few people now how to set a blank page as the start page, it's much quicker but I get the feeling IT will attempt to stifle me again.

Watch out for Group Policy kicking in

 

[serfty]

Watch out for Group Policy kicking in

I thought Group Policy kicking one out was more of an issue!

 

[Flashback]

I thought Group Policy kicking one out was more of an issue!

Yes, well! Was the one thing that irked me about the last client site I was working on

 

[simongr]

This is why I run FF portable. I havent set it as my default browser and if I need the intranet (though seriously do people really actively use the intranet?) I fire up IE... though it pains me to do so...

 

[thegurio]

The one thing that frustrates me about IE is the fact that it wont shut down - ie6,7 and 8 will just crash.... WTG M$!!

 

[Techie]

... if I need the intranet (though seriously do people really actively use the intranet?) I fire up IE... though it pains me to do so...

You can install the IE Tab plugin and open your intranet in a Firefox tab!

 

[notzac]

Internet Explorer is really pretty stable on our SOE - it's more often than not Outlook that has a temper tantrum, if anything. My personal favourite type of crash (!) would have to be one that happened to me the other day - blue screen of death after re-docking the computer. Complete with loads of unsaved docs. @*&$*&%@ Windows!!!

 

[Flashback]

Internet Explorer is really pretty stable on our SOE - it's more often than not Outlook that has a temper tantrum, if anything. My personal favourite type of crash (!) would have to be one that happened to me the other day - blue screen of death after re-docking the computer. Complete with loads of unsaved docs. @*&$*&%@ Windows!!!

I've never found undocking/redocking stable for either IBM/Lenovo, HP, Toshiba et al. I always make sure everything is saved, because I expect it to crash every time; rather than having an expectation of it working