


- #WHAT IS ADOBE SHOCKWAVE PLAYER HOW TO#
- #WHAT IS ADOBE SHOCKWAVE PLAYER INSTALL#
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The website says "10.7 or 10.8" (only) are supported
#WHAT IS ADOBE SHOCKWAVE PLAYER INSTALL#
Workaround: Install Windows Shockwave Player version 9.0.0.434 from, Adobe Technote "Stand-alone installers for Shockwave Player: previous versions only" (linked from Shockwave "Support Center" link on ).Even Adobe®'s own website is maximally confusing on this plugin. Shockwave player shows "Adobe Shockwave Player is now installing" but gets no furtherĬause (not verified): Shockwave Player 11 may not work under Wine Search for "_from_crash" and double click to set it to false.Ĭause (when using streaming): The Shockwave object expects the "Referrer" HTTP header to be set, which mozplugger does not do. Type "about:config" in the Location Bar and press Enter. Unfortunately, there is no fix currently known for this.įirefox is asking for restoring old sessions before playing objectsĬause: Session restore is enabled in the Windows version of Firefox Workaround 1: Type this in a terminal to end all wine processes:Ĭause 2: mozplugger does not handle multiple objects. Objects appear in a small window of their ownĬause 1: Wine or Shockwave is still running in the background.
#WHAT IS ADOBE SHOCKWAVE PLAYER DOWNLOAD#
Note: If you want to use Shockwave from multiple user accounts on the same machine, you have to repeat the following steps while logged in as each user: download, install, and launch Windows Firefox download Shockwave plugin remove pluginreg.dat if needed. See the issues and workaround solutions section below. However, some Shockwave objects may not work. You can test it on the Test Macromedia Shockwave & Flash Players page. Removal of pluginreg.dat wasn't needed with Ubuntu 9.04 and Firefox 3.0.14.Ĭongratulations, you should now have a working, if not convuluted, Shockwave setup. Replace "RANDOM-STRING" with the random string your Mozilla has assigned for your computer. Rm ~/.mozilla/firefox/RANDOM-STRING/pluginreg.dat In later versions this file may have been moved: Rm ~/.mozilla/firefox/*.default/pluginreg.dat Close all Firefox windows and run this command in a terminal: Swallow(firefox.exe) fill stream: wine "C:\\Program Files\\Mozilla Firefox\\firefox.exe" -chrome "$file"įinally, you need to make Firefox reload the plugin database. From a terminal, type:Īdd the following two lines to the end of the file:Īpplication/x-director: dir,dcr,dxr,cst,cct,cxt,w3d,fgd,swa: Macromedia Director file Now you need to configure mozplugger to use the Windows version of Firefox for Shockwave files. Again, follow the on-screen instructions, and when the plugin has installed and is working, you may close Firefox. When the installation has finished, you then have to go to a web site that requires Shockwave, and choose to get the missing plugin. Choose to open the installer with Wine and follow the on-screen instructions. You then need to install the Windows version of Firefox (yes, you read that right).
#WHAT IS ADOBE SHOCKWAVE PLAYER HOW TO#
(Wine does not work on PowerPC and may not work as expected on 64-bit PCs.) You can then use mozplugger, a program that lets you "embed" other programs in your web browser.įirst, install the wine and mozplugger packages (for information on how to do this, see InstallingSoftware). On a PC, it may be possible to run Shockwave under Ubuntu using Wine and running the Windows versions of Firefox and the Shockwave player. Unfortunately, the Shockwave player is only available for Windows. Today, Shockwave is most commonly used for Internet games. Designed by Macromedia in the mid 1990s, it was followed by Shockwave Flash (or just Flash), a simpler format which became far more popular.
