Comments on: Unable To Update Flash Player In Firefox?

By: Grey Hodge

Grey Hodge — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 01:27:02 +0000

This was driving me nuts. No matter what I did Firefox kept seeing .47, not .115, so thanks, the uninstaller BEFORE the installer finally worked.

By: Bastian Grupe

Bastian Grupe — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 14:47:06 +0000

Seems there is a problem under Windows Vista, I cannot update Flash player as well because it would require elevation and the Firefox PlugIn-Finder doesn’t seem to honor that.

By: Matthew Wilson

Matthew Wilson — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 14:03:54 +0000

Just went through and updated Flash and had no problems.

By: Steve England

Steve England — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 11:41:18 +0000

In my experience, the Flash installer will find all versions of NPSWF32.dll and update them. The author of the CNet article doesn’t explicitly say whether or not firefox was running whilst he tried to uninstall flash or install a new version of flash… obviously if the browser is open and still has its hooks into NPSWF32.dll then that file will be locked and unable to be removed/updated.