How to add Adobe Flash Player plugin to Firefox Portable without installing it
My no-good son is having difficulty getting Adobe Flash Player plugin on Firefox Portable brower. He got it working successfully, in the past, with Firefox 1.5 Portable (PortableApps.com). The first difficulty was getting it to work on Firefox Portable version 2.0 and version 3.0. The second difficulty was getting a current version of Adobe Flash.
Here is how i helped him.
The key to installing the Flash plugin resides in the location of the plugins folder. This is confusing for the newbie, and I can’t blame him for being mixed up. Sounds easy, right? That is what I thought until I tried to add the plugin and had to navigate to the correct “plugins” folder. Firefox Portable has several folders for “plugins”. Each folder contains a text note telling you to place plugins in its directory. You just have to choose the appropriate directory!
the location of the plugins directory for firefox portable 1.5 is:
…\Firefox\App\firefox\plugins
the location of the plugins directory for firefox portable 2.0 is:
…\Firefox\App\firefox\plugins
the location of the plugins directory for firefox portable 3.0 is:
…\Firefox\Data\plugins
The long method
install plugin in firefox portable 2.0 using this link http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/xpi/current/flashplayer-win.xpi (we did this November 2008)
(we got an error if we tried doing this in firefox 1.5 portable or firefox 3.0 portable.)
These are the resulting files in plugins folder:
NPSWF32_FlashUtil.exe 235,936 bytes Modified Saturday, October 04, 2008 8:24:00 PM Adobe Flash Player Helper 10.0r12 v10.0.12.36
NPSWF32.dll 3,695,008 bytes Modified Saturday, October 04, 2008 8:24:00 PM Shockwave Flash 10.0r12 v. 10.0.12.36
npnul32.dll 22,664 bytes default Mozilla Plugin version 1.0.0.15
flashplayer.xpt 856 bytes Modified Saturday, October 04, 2008 8:11:00 PM
Notice that the “Modified” dates of the flash files are similar. Now Firefox 2.0 Portable has flash added. Great!
Next, just copy the above flash files to the respective plugins folder for Firefox 1.5 and 3.0 Portable, and you are finished.
Similar Links:
http://www.acidlabs.org/2006/09/05/installing-flash-in-portable-firefox-with-no-installer/
http://lifehacker.com/394946/enable-flash-in-firefox-portable
The short method
We found this method on the internet. http://portableapps.com/node/13737 We haven’t tried it, but it sounds easier than our method above. Here is the excerpt.
UPDATED INFORMATION 6/25/08 The NEW Definitive Simplest way Download the file from:
http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/xpi/current/flashplayer... as indicated on the support page. http://portableapps.com/support/firefox_portable#plugins
BUT... DO NOT CLICK ON THE LINK ABOVE DO A RIGHT CLICK, Save link as...
change the extension of the download to flashplayer-win.xpi.ZIP
Unzip it, and there you go, copy the files needed, NPSWF32.dll and flashplayer.xpt , to this directory: [x]:\PATH\PORTABLE\FirefoxPortable\Data\Plugins
and you have Flash for FFP
Tim
Similar Links:
http://imidea.com/adding-flash-player-into-firefox-portable-without-installing-it/ … Right now, due to I don’t have an administrator privileges on my office computer, I can’t install FireFox 3 in it, so I have to use FireFox 3 Portable from PortableApps. …
http://randomryy.blogspot.com/2008/07/getting-flash-player-on-portable.html
On my wife’s WordPress blog, there is a brief note on adding Adobe Shockwave Player to Firefox Portable.
