After that, you can restart Firefox and all is working again. Thanks for your reply the-edmeister. Yeah I forgot to mention that in my startpost but I already tried that and it produces the exact same result which is the prompt for what to do with the file as show in the screenshot.
I'm from the PICK Multivalue computer world and I dislike what Bill Gates chose as names , an upper line might say 'play' or 'open' and a little arrow next to it. Until a couple of weeks ago, Firefox opened these files without a problem and I was doing that for years. And I'll guess that developement is also done for free by well meaning people. It's possible something has changed inside on Win10?
You specified. I have the situation that swf files play, but if they are on one certain web site, they will NOT. I have to use cough cough IE to view them. I'm living with it. I really only wanted to state the first two sentences. On behalf of anyone who gives a crap, thank you for posting your findings. One change in my system, which has nothing to do with who knows what, is somehow something got reset.
Control panel, security, remote-settings; Allow remote Assistant I swear I had unchecked that box months ago. I went looking because of the phony-update malware and my investigation of jquery. Besides the current bug, I am seeing now why web sites are working as though I was using a 56K dialup modem.
Yes sometimes you have to dig really deep to fix things :. Search Support Search. Home Support Forums Firefox Local. Learn More. Using Firefox How do I fix this? Thanks in advance. Chosen solution Thanks for your reply's. This would cause Opera to embed the swf file with the flash player so that the swf would play inside Opera.
Ok, as far as I can see, Chrome users also have this problem. The problem is, that the site should load up and then ask, if it should download the. There's an "ask where to save" checkbox in the settings that should allow you to cancel when it tries to download. It might help with that part. It still doesn't change anything ok, something , I can't access the pages, so I don't do this.
I'll wait for any response from the Support wrote to them , so maybe there will be any feedback. Looking on the net, if this did work fine in Chrome and Opera before, it's most likely due to changes Chromium made with the handling of flash.
To check, download the Opera 48 setup file , launch it, click "options", set "install path" to a folder on your desktop, set "install for" to "Standalone Installation USB " and install.
When that Opera opens up, immediately close it. Go into the Opera folder on your desktop and in the version folder, rename the opera autoupdate exe so that Opera doesn't update to 49 on you. Swfs not opening, downloading instead. Reply Reply as topic. This topic has been deleted. Only users with topic management privileges can see it. A Former User last edited by leocg Twenty minutes ago I tried to play a music.
Any idea, any help? Reply Quote 0 1 Reply Last reply. A Former User sgunhouse last edited by sgunhouse As I said, it worked perfectly just 5 days ago. A Former User Guest last edited by kuna I'm having the same problem, started after the latest Windows 7 security update four days ago. A Former User last edited by By the way, the whole game works perfectly without any problems, it's the files alone, which don't want to play.
A Former User last edited by I have same issue, haven't managed to find anything helpful to fix it. But, you said it worked fine a few days ago, so I don't know.
A Former User burnout last edited by burnout Thanks, that's good to know. Then launch that Opera and test.
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