Flash is working, but Shockwave is not. I get the puzzle piece and “Click here to get the plugin” in the Shockwave area.
So, I click the puzzle and the “get the plugin” on the popup, and it takes me to where I can download the plugin. I download it, quit Mozilla (and the “quick start” Mozilla icon in the system tray), and run the installer. It seems to detect properly that I am using Mozilla 1.5, and seems to install normally; even congratulating me on a successful installation.
When I go back to the test page, I get a popup message from Macromedia Shockwave saying I need to restart to complete the installation of Shockwave Player. So, I click the Restart Now button and it restarts. When I’m back up, and go to the test page, I have the damn puzzle piece again as if I never installed it!!!
Usually when I have these types of problems, when I can’t figure it out myself I can usually find others with the same problem and the solution with Google (searching both the web and groups) but no dice this time.
The only thing I can think of that might have changed my system is I had some Macromedia tools like Dreamweaver and Flash MX installed but I uninstalled them (and even unisntalled Mozilla), reinstalled Mozilla and still have the same problem with Shockwave.
Mozillazine.org is actually what you want. Aside from that, Jake4 is on the money: make sure the plugin (usually a DLL file if you’re on Windows) got installed in the correct place. Depending on your OS you may have to set your folder options to let you view hidden/system files to verify it.
I recently installed the newer versions of Netscape and Mozilla. In the past I had this same problem, and solved it by simply copying all the plugins in Netscape (that install properly!) to teh plugins folder in Mozilla, but not overwriting any already-existing files in Mozilla. That didn’t work last time around however, and I have abandoned Mozilla as anything with Javascript now makes it crash. Netscape (7.1) continues to work as usual, with no problems.
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FYI, I stumbled on a strange workaround. I installed Opera, ran the Shockwave installer again, and then Shockwave was working in both Mozilla and Opera. It continued to work in Mozilla, even after uninstalling Opera.
Right. You need to get the file np32dsw.dll, and (conceivably) ShockwavePlugin.class. (See this link a bit down.)
Mozilla uses the Netscape-style Shockwave plugin (of course), but it seems the installer didn’t detect your installation (or mine), so you need to put them there yourself. I found them on on of my other machines and copied them over, as I couldn’t find a place to get these files on the 'net. (Do you download the .zip files like I do? I can see that not using the Mozilla installer could leave some registry stuff undone that Macromedia could be counting on to find it.)
Anyhow. After this, about:plugins should contain a “Shockwave for Director” entry like this page does. That was a bit of work for me to find out, so I hope everyone fully enjoys the floating advertisements now drifting across their web pages.