366955 - Cannot install Flashplayer in Firefox 2.0.0.1 under Windows Vista

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 352762

(Toolkit Graveyard :: Plugin Finder Service, defect)

Description

[Thorsten]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; de; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20061204 Firefox/2.0.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; de; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20061204 Firefox/2.0.0.1

Its not possible to install the flashplayer plugin in Firefox 2.0.0.1 under Windows Vista. When I visit a website containing flash, I am informed about a missing plugin. When I click on this button the dialog box appears and shows me that the flashplayer plugin is missing, so I click on Install.

The dialog box start to load the license agreement then. But I cannot agree to them, as long as they are not loaded completely. I waited around 15 minutes, but they are never loaded completely and so, I cannot proceed with installing the flashplayer plugin.

Because both ways are not working, I have NO chance to install the flashplayer plugin. Because of this I cannot access many websites and I cannot really use Firefox productive. I have to use IE unfortunately right now :-(

I tried the other way: To visit the Adobe website, to get the flashplayer plugin directly from there. But this is the next problem. I cannot access the Adobe website with Firefox.

Reproducible: Always

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The license agreement is not loaded completely, and because of this, I cannot agree and proceed with the plugin installation.

Comment 1

[Nick Thomas [:nthomas] (UTC+12)]

This looks like a dupe of bug 352762 (the "can't install flash from the PFS" part anyway).