Closed Bug 56112 Opened 24 years ago Closed 24 years ago

can't install Flash without 4.x installed on your machine

Categories

(Core Graveyard :: Plug-ins, defect, P3)

Product:
Core Graveyard
Component:
Plug-ins
Platform:
x86
Windows NT
Type:
defect

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
VERIFIED WONTFIX
Milestone:
Future

People

(Reporter: ekrock, Assigned: serhunt)

References

Details

(Whiteboard: [rtm-])

This from waterson: ----- I've gone so far as to remove 4.x from my machine. Actually, I never installed it. Tried to download and install MacroMedia's flash player 5 to test a bug. "Can't find NETSCAPE.EXE" Oops! Either we need to rename netscp6.exe back to "netscape.exe", or we gotta talk to MacroMedia. Renaming "netscp6.exe" to "netscape.exe" allowed me to install. But...the macromedia installer *still* has to be dragged by the nose to the "Netscape" folder. ("Can't find your browser's plugin folder.") ----- johng: Are we shipping with Flash 4 or Flash 5? Is Flash 5 already available from their web site for public download? So it sounds like right now users who don't have Nav4 on their machine and want to install Flash into Netscape 6 have to: 1) run the Flash 4 installer so it installs into some other browser 2) copy over the Flash 4 binary stub DLLs from that browser's plug-ins directory to their Netscape 6 directory? Chris--am I understanding you correctly? One other detail FYI: On Windows only, Netscape 6 is set up so that it looks in the Nav4 "plugins" directory (if there is one) and loads Real, Flash, and Acrobat (only those top 3 plug-ins) from there if they exist there. Nominating rtm to track until we get this issue figured out. johng--would you please take the lead on resolving this issue with Macromedia?
Keywords: flash, rtm
Summary: can't install flash w/o 4.x installed → can't install Flash without 4.x installed on your machine
This is bug 35916 which is marked invalid. Marking this one as a dup of 35916 *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 35916 ***
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 24 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
REOPENing. shrir, bug 35916 was a bug on the Shockwave plug-in which is different than the Flash plug-in. (The Shockwave installer automatically installs the Flash player as well, which makes it confusing, but they are two separate products and two separate installers.) mtomlin reports that this N6-detection problem has been fixed for the Shockwave installer. The same fix needs to be made for the Flash 5 installer (assuming that's what we bundle with N6). mtomlin said she could help with getting the needed changes ported over to Flash installer from Shockwave installer. Macromedia folks: have you made sure that your installer will also find the Mozilla browser from mozilla.org (which has a different executable name, not netscp6.exe or whatever ours is [I forget!])? You'll want to make sure that you detect Mozilla as well as Netscape 6 while you're at it.
Status: RESOLVED → REOPENED
Resolution: DUPLICATE → ---
*** Bug 56040 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
adding keyword rtm, just learned of this problem. Also have contacted Troy Evans at Macromedia.
Shrirang is currenlty testing version 5, which is what we want to ship if it checks out. To clarify, does this bug means that if Flash is part of the default installation of Netscape 6, you will run into this problem and Flash will not install? Or does this bug only refer to installing the plug-in after you have installed Netscape 6?
Please confirm the issue - and we will address as need be. If you can do this today - we will make an estimate Regards Troy
Troy (kiwi@macromedia) just told me that this does NOT effect usage of the Flash plugin that is automatically installed during the default installation of Netscape 6 on Windows and Mac. It only effects bits that are downloaded, so is an issue that Macromedia needs to fix for bits that they will host on their site. Shrir, please confirm that this is not an issue for anything that ships with Netscape 6. If that is the case, we will mark rtm- cc'ing ssu
Yes, this is not an issue with the shockwave flash bits that come packaged with netscape6. The plugin works fine.
And IIRC Flash is bundled by default with *all* configurations of N6. So I guess this issue would only affect users who used Custom installation to manually turn off Flash install, then wanted to install it into Netscape 6 later, right?
Flash wasn't installed when I downloaded the most recent bits from seamonkey. Is that another bug?
Flash is currently only installed when either Full or Custom is selected.
Flash should be installed in all versions - full - typical (min) - custom
[rtm-], Future, likely will be WONTFIX. This only affects users who (1) do a custom install, AND (2) manually turn off the Flash option, AND (3) later try to download and install Flash from the web, AND (4) don't have 4.x on their machine. Not an RTM stop-ship issue. Is the final resolution for this issue for Macromedia to modify their Flash download/install bits in some way, or is there an outstanding Moz/N6 issue that needs to be addressed for a future release?
Whiteboard: [rtm-]
Target Milestone: --- → Future
We will be fixing this for the launch of N6 - this issue will be resolved Troy Evans , macromedia flash player product manager
Resolving WONTFIX based on Troy's comments that Macromedia will fix their installer.
Status: REOPENED → RESOLVED
Closed: 24 years ago → 24 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
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Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
Product: Core → Core Graveyard
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