Flash woes

Pawnless Endgame · 22 Mar 2011 at 03:19

I have a lot of SWFs on my machine, mainly just old comedy clips & memes. They're associated with Firefox 4.0 and when I try to launch one, the OS says it can't play because another instance of Firefox is running. If I save the FF session, close it then launch the SWF, it starts a new FF session so it's not ideal. I just want the SWF to open as a new tab in an existing FF session. I then tried it in Media Player Classic and although it allegedly supports SWFs, it returns "can't create shockwave control". Next, I tried the Brothersoft freebie SWF viewer but it wanted to install browser toolbars and change a multitude of settings, so being the untrusting person I am (spyware etc), I bailed out of that. I of course already have the Adobe Flash Player installed. As a last resort, I'm looking for its install path so that I can associate SWFs directly with the flash player EXE. I've looked in Program Files, Program Files x86 and system32 and not a sausage. Nothing helpful when googling or on Adobe's site either. Any thoughts? Thanks.

[Olly] · 22 Mar 2011 at 09:44

You could try something like KM Player, it wil play SWF's in a standalone screen.

Zid_ · 22 Mar 2011 at 10:13

You can click and drag images into the firefox window, they will open in the tab you were on. I don't know if it works the same for SWFs but it's worth a try.

Pawnless Endgame · 22 Mar 2011 at 15:25

Thanks guys. I got KM Player installed but it didn't react at all to SWF files (although it gave out the media info ok). I then tried drag-and-drop into an FF window and that worked great. It just doesn't seem to like double click from Explorer. Thanks though :-)