Installing Flash Player Plugin on Firefox without having Administrator Access or Premissions
UPDATE: The following guide, originally written for Firefox 2, has been used successfully on Firefox 3, 3.5, 3.6, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12. Users of Firefox Portable edition (same versions) also have been successful using this guide.
The Windows computers available at my University permits login only by autenticated users (students) who don't have Administrator access and permissions.
Installing software on those PC is then not possible.
Recently they finally installed Firefox 2 but without the Flash plugins, which is absolutly useful/needed.
I then tryed to install the Flash Player using the "standard" way (click on the missing plugin link then install the plugin..). However without administrator plugins it was not possible to install.
Then I started doing some tests trying to install the plugin manually. Now I have it installed and working perfectly!
This is how I managed to install it without administrator permissions:
- Download this ZIP archive to your hard disk.
- Extract the file in the archive. You can use any program capable of opening .zip files (WinZip, WinRAR or the free and great 7-zip). There are also websites which can uncompress archives: wobzip.org.
- Copy the file NPSWF32.dll to %APPDATA%\Mozilla\Plugins\
- %APPDATA% is not a real folder. It's an alias. By inserting it in your windows explorer address bar, you'll be redirected to the real folder which holds your applications profiles and settings. The location of this folder depends on various setting that's why we need the alias and not an absolute path.
- You can open this folder simply choosing "Start → Run → Type in %APPDATA% → OK".
- In case you don't have a Plugins folder you can create one and place your files there.
- Restart Firefox
- Enjoy your flash websites!
Reference:
Profile folder on MozillaZine Knowledge Base.
Installing Flash in Portable Firefox with no installer at AcidLabs.org Blog.
Update
Hi,
Is there any update of Flash ? Where can we get the latest XPI ?
Thanks in advance.
Flash 10.1 automated setup without admin rights
Try this one at
http://abtevrythng.blogspot.com/2010/06/install-latest-flash-player-101-...It really works. No steps to follow just download the EXE and run.
ADMIN EDIT: removed link to .exe files.
@Heartrobber18: if you want to post links to .exe files on this website you are required to post its sources as well.
broken link and spammy
broken link and spammy looking comment. I wouldn't trust the link above and any untrusted website which ask you to "just" run an .exe file: this are potentially dangerous files (viruses).
My method above uses files distributed by Adobe (the flash creators) and simple and verifiable steps.
Flash no install
well done, works.
Thanks saved my life!!!!
I'm at a collage library security Admin bull!! Anyway thanks for saving me from this Admin bull. I swear these bureaucratic jerks make life hard on us students.
Thanks, but the link goes to
Thanks, but the link goes to a very old and unsecured version of flash player (10.0.32 release candidate). What we need is dll for 10.1!
Found it here, works
Found it here, works well:
http://my.opera.com/Tamil/homes/Softwares/NPSWF32.zip
It works!
After one hour looking for resolve the problem, tis post works!
u r saviour
u r saviour
Thnx
Flawless victory. Works like charm. Thanks.
wooooops, still doesnt work...
i tried this method. after i changed it to .zip, i successfully found all the files to be copied to the firefox plug-in folder. the the prob is, the school computer requires for the admin password even just to copy files... i cant paste them in the right destination. doomed~
Can you define bookmarks on
Can you define bookmarks on your Firefox profile? If so you do have write permissions to your profile folder. So you just probably putting the files in the wrong place.
thanx. worked!
thanx. worked!
You may need to do something else
As per this post ( http://news.cnet.com/problems-updating-the-flash-player-in-firefox-heres... ) you might find that different bits of software have sprayed Flash components all over the place. If you follow the instructions above,Flash might still not work properly as it may be using a component from an unexpected folder (thanks Adobe Air). If so, try searching your PC for NPSWF32.dll (from explorer, right click on your hard drive {you might need to do it for all of them if you have more than one}, click Search and pop NPSWF32.dll into the search box). Wherever you have an occurrence of this, open the folder it's in, rename the current NPSWF32.dll to, say, NPSWF32.dll.old (just to be safe), and then copy the newly downloaded version of this file (the one in the .xpi package) into that folder. It might need you to restart the PC as windows has a habit of loading .dlls into memory and not flushing them out afterwards. If so a restart should sort it.
Hope this helps
This is way harder than necessary
Hi
All of this can be done with less software (no need to unzip) and less steps. Just download the .xpi file, press cntl-o while in firefox. This allows you to browse for the .xpi file. Choose the file. Restart Firefox.
i tired it said install
i tired it said install script not found 201 what now?
Oh my god, that worked! Thank
Oh my god, that worked! Thank you!
Brilliant!
What a pain to be shut out of flash. It works perfectly IF you follow the instructions properly.
Anyone know who to do this on CHROME???
thanks really dude
dude it works really fine , i really liked ur idea it worked perfectly
ZIP
You can also go to open zip file to open your zip files online. I hope it would be a great help.
Need a similar solution
Hi,
I need a solution similar to this for the Java Runtime Environment. Firefox needs the add-on to access certain websites, but the level of security at my work won't allow the add-on to be updated.
If anyone can help out it would be much appreciated!!
Tooo Gooood
This is really what i needed from long time......
thanks very much
Perfect
Thanx, man! It works perfectly.
I copied all the files to the folder, restarted firefox and there it was!
Great
Help Please
I am following the instructions correctly ( I believe) and it isn't working for me.
I am using firefox 3.6.3
I have copied all the files from the .zip folder into the plugin folder (after creating one) as specified to be done when doing this on firefox 3.6.3
Then when i open firefox to test out my new flash.... it still tells me i must install the plugin.
What must i do!!??!!?
Check the path!
You probably inserted the files in the wrong place.
Please verify that you are copying the file in %APPDATA%\Mozilla\Plugins .. To reach this directory Start → Run → Type in %APPDATA% → OK. Then you should see a folder called Mozilla, open it and in the Mozilla folder you'll see a Plugin directory (create it if you don't see it), open it and past the 2 files there.
Hope this helps.. let us know if you still have problems.
This directory might not
This directory might not exist, so if not, make it. I did this for 3.6 and it worked like a dream.
Thanks so much!
Firefox 3.6.3 Portable has
Firefox 3.6.3 Portable has its plugins in another directory:
[Firefox installation directory]\Data\plugins
Great! Thanks
Great! Thanks
DL firefox
If you don't have firefox, I found a way around it, instead of program files, I downloaded it right on the desktop, the folder is on the desktop, and I ran everything from there and it worked.
can someone just hook up the
can someone just hook up the files .. non zipped.. this computer won't even extract the file !! anyone?
As described in the article,
As described in the article, you can use a webservice like wobzip: download the xpi file, rename it to .zip then upload to wobzip. It will give you the extracted files.
Hope this helps.
Brilliant mate!
Brilliant mate!
works!
thanks dude, this totally worked. only problem i had was that my firefox did not yet have the plugins folder created. Fixed after reading comments - %APPDATA%\Mozilla\ was the correct command to use.
brilliant! thanks again. now i'm off to listen to some myspace music.
Firefox Flash Install
You are a genius! It totally worked. I found the application data a different way, however. If you set your desktop background using Firefox, and then go to display, clicking on the "Desktop Background" under the desktop tab and clicking browse will get you to the app data folder. People may or may not have privileges to do this, however.
it did not work for me the
it did not work for me the %APPDATA% still can not be accessed, it was restricted by our net costudian. how sad
See comments below on using
See comments below on using Firefox Portable..
thnks a lot, works perfect.
thnks a lot, works perfect.
Thanks you a lot good work :)
this is exact what I looking for. And its work fine, but for Firefox 3.6 you need to copy all the files from flashplayer-win.zip into %APPDATA%.
Woooooooo
FINALLY can utilise Flash at work. Great little workaround. :)
It worked very well.
It worked very well.
This is some hot stuff man!
This is some hot stuff man! Thanks for the info! It worked like a charm! =)
YOU ARE A GREAAAAAAATTTTTTT
YOU ARE A GREAAAAAAATTTTTTT MANNNNNNNNNN
THAK YOU,
the link doesnt work
the link doesnt work
Just checked from my home. It
Just checked from my home. It works from here. It's probably your connection or maybe it didn't worked when you tried.
i dont undersatdn step 4 im
i dont undersatdn step 4 im stuck help please!
What exactly don't you
What exactly don't you understand?
Easy
Thanks for the easy instruction.
Thank you for the twitter and
Thank you for the twitter and delicous mentions.
Multumesc
Means "Thank You" Great job :)
I think I'm in love with you
Thanks so much. I can now use firefox with no issues at work! Saved me sooo much headache. Awesome.
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