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.
doing step 4 of your guide i
doing step 4 of your guide i get stuck. i get a bar in screen telling me accesing the resource has been disallowed.
you know anything to get by this problem?
Thanks.
See older comments for
See older comments for Firefox Portable install..
thanks a lot, worked for
thanks a lot, worked for me....
Flash player for dumpert movies
Thanks a lot man.
Do someone no`s how i can watch the movies on dumpert.nl i can see now youtube but can`t see dumpert movies?
Greetz Mar.
KIITOS!!!
It means thank you)
thanks a lot man ,,, you r
thanks a lot man ,,, you r the best :)
Thank you very much. It works
Thank you very much. It works perfectly. Don't need to ask for favors any more.
Itz working, really Amaging
Wow never i thought it will work, but it is worked Excellent.
Thank you! It just simply
Thank you! It just simply sucked to have every page I surf to say "we don't support you". I felt so rejected. ;)
worked great!! Thanks for
worked great!!
Thanks for sharing this information..
Hi, good, very good This
Hi, good, very good This vorks.. thankyou man good post
Fantastic
Fantasic! At least youtube is working again
Awesome, very useful!!!
Awesome, very useful!!!
The XPI version of the Flash
The XPI version of the Flash plugin seems to be horribly outdated. This poses a high security risk.
need more info
i cannot understand your 3rd step,,,please explain me clearly,,,
.zip files are archives. They
.zip files are archives. They contains other files. By extracting an archive you can access to the files it contains.
Thanks - That guide is awesome!
I've been wanting Flash on my Firefox installation @ work for ages. Thanks for this guide and keep up the great work!
PS. If as with my installation you've chosen to install firefox portable in a location other than profgram files, you won't find the plugins folders under %appdata%, the folder will be found here:
"install root"\FirefoxPortable\App\Firefox\plugins
Thank you so much! Works
Thank you so much! Works great. I can finally watch youtube vids at work : )
I only have one problem. When
I only have one problem.
When I go to youtube or any other site it works fine BUT when I use Cooliris (Extension for Firefox) It says to install flash 8 or higher.
I thought I already installed it or does it have to do with the extension
This helped me a lot. Thank
This helped me a lot. Thank you.
Question
How do i do this at Internet Explorer???
I'm sorry. But we are not
I'm sorry. But we are not aware of a procedure like the one described in the article for Internet Explorer.
If you don't have Firefox installed you can use Firefox Portable. There are old comments below (check also the older pages) whose describe how to use Firefox Portable.
When i try to copy the file
When i try to copy the file to %APPDATA%\Mozilla\Plugins\ an alert shows up saying that the operation is not supported. I have no clue what i should be doing.
Hi, It doesn't work because
Hi,
It doesn't work because the "Plugins" folder is not created.
Try to insert in Windows Explorer : "%APPDATA%\Mozilla\" and then create the folder just there. After that just paste the file requested in the istructions.
restart Firefox finaly and all donne.
Good Luck
Unfortunately I think your
Unfortunately I think your computer is too restricted and you can't use the procedure described in the article.
Please check the following: try to create a bookmark in Firefox, and then close the browser, then reopen it.
If the bookmark is still where you created it then you should have write permissions to %APPDATA%.. Instead if it isn't you haven't.
If you don't have it check the old comments on using Firefox Portable + Flash. The idea is to install Firefox Portable on a folder where you have write permissions and then to install flash on it.
download flash players
ok
Awesome Frnds!!
I have been fed up with the administrator guy they were not allowing us to install the flashplayer due to ur comments i have done this thnk's lot my dear frnds
The thing that is making all
The thing that is making all the headache is called “Allowed sites”.
You can find it if you click Tools – Options – Security – Exceptions and then you add adobe.com to your “Allowed sites” list.
the whole procedure is here:
http://www.4us2be.com/my-theory/firefox-vs-flash-player/
No it isn't. Here we try to
No it isn't. Here we try to install Flash for Firefox on a restricted computer such as those available at Universities or at Work.
But...
I've found such tutorial online and it didn't help. why? Because flashplayer.xpt and NPSWF32.dll weren't in my downloaded file, although I renamed .xpi to .zip and extracted all the files, those two were missing, so I couldn't install the fp.
very good
hey man thanks a lot you saved my lot of time.
It works !... Good
It works !...
Good job.
RESPECT.
Works !...
Respect.
It works.
Thank you very much
Thanks
Thank you very much. :)
Thanks...
Thanks a lot for this valuable suggestion..
Thanks a lot! This saved me a
Thanks a lot! This saved me a lot of headaches since the company insists I use Internet Exploder... ugh.
You are a genius! Thank you
You are a genius! Thank you for sharing this information!!
Good work.
Wow... it took more than this for me to get it to work, had to improvise, but the basis of this helped tremendously, thanks a crapload man.
Basically I had to install firefox to a flash drive I have, so that I can actually browse the folders, and found the addon folder, then just did what you said, restarted, and it works, freaking epic. Thanks a bunch.
Great Post man .. I have been
Great Post man .. I have been trying to work this out from a long time ....really helped a lot ..
Jamie, do what I did, get a
Jamie, do what I did, get a flash drive and plug it in, they can't disallow your downloading and installing onto that particular drive due to rights. If they do, report them. Then just do what I did.
question
When i try and download the programs for extracting the zip files, i still need administrator privileges to download these programs,,,,,, it would be good if you showed us how to do it with screenshots.
Edit: clicked the wrong reply
Edit: clicked the wrong reply button -.-
Jamie, do what I did, get a flash drive and plug it in, they can't disallow your downloading and installing onto that particular drive due to rights. If they do, report them. Then just do what I did.
Shockwave
Hello! I have succesfully installed flash player (thnx a lot) but i'm still in need of shockwave player for some websites. Where can i get the file for the plugin for shockwave??
check the old comments to
check the old comments to this page.. some other user might had your same needs.. If you can't find google for "shockwave .xpi"..
Let me know if you have problems..
brilliant work !!! i spend
brilliant work !!! i spend lots of days without flash player but your Text is GREAT ihave same problem as writer..
thanks
Superb man........
Superb man........
How to get it to work with firefox portable
Using the %appdata% will not work if you are trying to get it to work with firefox portable.
For firefox portable, you need to navigate to the \FirefoxPortable\Data\plugins directory in windows explorer and put the two files in there.
big thumbs up!!
Worked like a charm!!! Great work-a-round!
GODSEND!
Thank you so much for posting these instructions! My (university admin) office's IT "upgraded" our computer to an active directory (read: horribly restrictive environment) and I couldn't see any website requiring flash (couldn't install the debugger because, thank you IT "upgrade", I'm no longer able to d/l .exe files, etc, you know, because "there's a lot of bad things people can download without knowing" garbage). So this is a godsend. Literally. Thank you!
Great
Great Great work ... keep rocking .
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