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[rickvoid]

So today, I found some new Flash games that I thought were fun, so I saved them to my computer as shockwave flash objects. I have several of them already, and I previously had been able to run them in the firefox browser, so as to play them full screen.

My flash player upgraded itself to flash 7 today, and suddenly it doesn't let me do that anymore. Opening the flash object in firefox merely asks me what program I want to use to run it. And telling it to use Macromedia flash player 7 (r14) makes it open a new window, where it proceeds to run like shit, or depending on the game, not at all.

Anybody have any idea how I can either make firefox run the damn game in the browser (without having to be online, which was the point of downloading the games in the first place), or how to roll back the player to the version that actually fecking worked?

[olemars]

Uh, Flash 7 is at least five years old, you shouldn't be able to play any recent flash games on that. Current version is Flash 10.

To play flash objects locally I would recommend Swiff Player instead of going through the web browser.

[Jay]

WTF happened to your brain?!

Flash 7 is ancient.
It's not even made by Macromedia anymore!

[RantingRodent]

WTF happened to your brain?!

Flash 7 is ancient.
It's not even made by Macromedia anymore!

Hell, Macromedia doesn't even exist any more.

[xdarkcodex]

Adobe bought the company. Adobe is a clay thingy did any of you knew that?

[Knirisk]

*raises hand* I did, sir.

[Kusgnos]

That is awesome. I wonder if there's someone out there still innocently using Netscape Navigator.

[Duke 2.0]

 I had to help somebody work with office 97.

 ...

 Yeah, it was surreal. I then had to check online on what the hell features were missing, and he had the pre-tab version of internet explorer. I was not quite sure what time capsule he wandered out of.

[umiman]

I changed my laptop computer to have the Windows 95 bootup screen to freak out people nearby. It's pretty funky.

[rickvoid]

Yeah... here's where it gets weird.

I have adobe player 10 installed. But it's defaulting to macromedia version seven, and I have no fucking clue why.

Screw it, I'll try that swiff player. Thanks guys! 

[Draco18s]

Yeah, it was surreal. I then had to check online on what the hell features were missing, and he had the pre-tab version of internet explorer. I was not quite sure what time capsule he wandered out of.

You mean IE 6?  That's not that old, and you did have to know what you were doing to not get the update to IE7 (my XP install--both computers--still have IE6, but my primary browser is FireFox due to its security, even if Microsoft managed to "patch" it too a year ago).

[Vester]

Adobe bought the company. Adobe is a clay thingy did any of you knew that?

I thought it was, like, a cliff or a geographical feature.

[Deon]

That is awesome. I wonder if there's someone out there still innocently using Netscape Navigator.

I do

[Draco18s]

Adobe bought the company. Adobe is a clay thingy did any of you knew that?

I thought it was, like, a cliff or a geographical feature.

Adobe is a natural building material made from sand, clay, and water, with some kind of fibrous or organic material (sticks, straw, dung), which is shaped into bricks using frames and dried in the sun. It is similar to cob and mudbrick. Adobe structures are extremely durable and account for some of the oldest extant buildings on the planet. In hot climates, compared to wooden buildings, adobe buildings offer significant advantages due to their greater thermal mass, but they are known to be particularly susceptible to seismic damage in an event such as an earthquake.

[Ampersand]

I'm reading this page in Mosaic. I'm getting a kick out of these replies.