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Safari 5.0.5 Plugin missing? Flash?

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Costumed

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Mar 30, 2010
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Hi,

I recently did a software update and everything went without a hitch. BUT... Since this software update, my Youtube isn't working properly. It keeps telling me to install Adobe Flash Player over and over again, even though I did this a gazzilion times.

I uninstalled AFP, downloaded it, installed it, closed Safari completely and reopened it, but still nothing.

I have a MBP 5.5 and I'm running 10.6.7 with Safari 5.0.5. If I open Finder>User>Library>Internet Plug-Ins, there's nothing in there.

Also, if I'm opening my Java-preferences, it keeps telling me that it 'cannot be launched. There is no compatible version available of Java 1.5+'.

How can I solve this?

By the way, I have a partition with 10.7 II (Safari 5.1) and everything works like a charm there. So I think this is related to Safari 5.0.5.
 
Costumed said:
Hi,

I recently did a software update and everything went without a hitch. BUT... Since this software update, my Youtube isn't working properly. It keeps telling me to install Adobe Flash Player over and over again, even though I did this a gazzilion times.

I uninstalled AFP, downloaded it, installed it, closed Safari completely and reopened it, but still nothing.

I have a MBP 5.5 and I'm running 10.6.7 with Safari 5.0.5. If I open Finder>User>Library>Internet Plug-Ins, there's nothing in there.

Also, if I'm opening my Java-preferences, it keeps telling me that it 'cannot be launched. There is no compatible version available of Java 1.5+'.

How can I solve this?

By the way, I have a partition with 10.7 II (Safari 5.1) and everything works like a charm there. So I think this is related to Safari 5.0.5.
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First of all, you're looking in the wrong folder for the Flash plugin. It's at Finder>Library>Internet Plug-Ins, if it is installed properly. Secondly, something is very wrong if your Java Preferences application isn't working. Have you installed the newest Java for Mac OS X 10.6 Update yet?
 
wrldwzrd89 said:
First of all, you're looking in the wrong folder for the Flash plugin. It's at Finder>Library>Internet Plug-Ins, if it is installed properly. Secondly, something is very wrong if your Java Preferences application isn't working. Have you installed the newest Java for Mac OS X 10.6 Update yet?
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I found the Flash Plugin in the folder you stated.
I think I installed the newest Java for Mac update. Available through software update, right?
 
Random thought just occurred to me. Have you checked Safari preferences and made sure "Enable plug-ins" is checked? And the option for Java as well?
 
dirt farmer said:
Which Flash version did you install? The beta (starts with 10.3), or the latest stable, 10.2r159?
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I just installed the version available through the normal site of Adobe. I think that's the stable one. Where can I check this?

JediMeister said:
Random thought just occurred to me. Have you checked Safari preferences and made sure "Enable plug-ins" is checked? And the option for Java as well?
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Plug-ins are enabled. Safari preferences haven't been touched after the update of Safari 5.0.5. What should I look for?
 
I think you can check the installed version under Help->Installed plug-ins or by going to adobe.com/software/flash/about. As far as where I was going with my suggestion, even though had not gone in and changed the preferences, sometimes the update could have changed it for one reason or another. As a follow-up how did you go about removing Adobe Flash Player? I seem to recall some kind of removal/uninstaller tool being involved, you cannot manually remove it to my understanding.
 
Try resetting Safari. A friend of mine mentioned this exact same thing and before I checked Youtube I reset his Safari and then checked it and everything worked fine.

To reset Safari go to Safari -> Reset Safari, check all boxes and hit Apply or OK or whatever the button at the bottom says.
 
JediMeister said:
I think you can check the installed version under Help->Installed plug-ins or by going to adobe.com/software/flash/about. As far as where I was going with my suggestion, even though had not gone in and changed the preferences, sometimes the update could have changed it for one reason or another. As a follow-up how did you go about removing Adobe Flash Player? I seem to recall some kind of removal/uninstaller tool being involved, you cannot manually remove it to my understanding.
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This is the 10.2.159.1 version. This is the newest (unless you count the beta with it, which I already tried by the way).
Uninstalling Flash is done by an app, downloaded from the Adobe site as well. This is just soooo... frustrating.

chrono1081 said:
Try resetting Safari. A friend of mine mentioned this exact same thing and before I checked Youtube I reset his Safari and then checked it and everything worked fine.

To reset Safari go to Safari -> Reset Safari, check all boxes and hit Apply or OK or whatever the button at the bottom says.
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Thanks for the tip, I've already tried that one. Didn't work.
 
I inserted my SL Install DVD and did a 'Repair Permissions' and 'Repair Disk', but still nothing. A clean install would sort this out, I guess.
 
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