Monday, May 11, 2009

Damned IE8 Flashplayer Problem

Have you guys encounter problems with IE8 that your flash player worked well yesterday however after a refresh of page today, it no longer works but gives you an annoying hint that you should upgrade your flash player to latest version or tell you to enable JavaScript for your browser?

The problem exists since IE 8 Beta, however, the solution is not as easy as just to upgrade flash player as when I tried to solve it that way, even I upgrade my flash player a thousand times, the problem still exists, that's the damned thing! As a result, I can not watch YouTube in IE, can not watch Justin.TV in IE, can not view my blog flash widgets..

To work around that, after many searches and tries, I found that upgrading flash player merely in browser would never help, but you should download the offline flash player install package and install it. As it is installing the player, I notice several files are written to system folder, which testify my guess as a install from browser will not write the files, and after install complete, I refreshed YouTube page, well, annoy finally is swiped away.

Download the offline flash player install package HERE.

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