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Some Facebook Users Experiencing Flash Version Problems
I have been getting a few messages lately from people who are having trouble with Facebook not properly detecting that they have Flash Player 9 installed.
It sounds like Facebook has a slight bug in their version detection scheme that only affects a few users. A post on the developer feed a few weeks ago seems to confirm this.
Facebook tried patching this bug but the fix caused problems with the <fb:swf> tag so they unapplied the patch.
The Facebook Help pages suggest:
In order to ensure that you successfully install the latest version of Adobe Flash, you may need to uninstall any outdated versions of Adobe Flash. Please go here to uninstall Adobe Flash.
Once you have successfully uninstalled Adobe Flash, please download the latest version of Adobe Flash. Please make sure to quit all web browsers during the installation process.
If you use Linux, please download the latest version of Adobe Flash for Linux.
If you are experiencing these problems leave a comment below. I will investigate further if there is enough people affected.
Comments
I've been struggling with this for a few weeks. I've tried downloading vers. 9.0 from the facebook link several times. I deleted all my adobe stuff and redownloaded and still can't get it to work.
Am I the only unlucky one?
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Hope the suns shining wherever you are.
Yes, this is me. I keep getting errors that I need to install Flash 9 when I have it installed and uninstalled and reinstalled several times.
What do we do???
I've been tryingg to install the flash player for facebook because it wont let me watch any of my friends videos but every time i click install flash player it doesnt take me to the site? why cant i intall it?
When running from IE it facebook flash vids run fine. When in firefox it never sees flash not matter how many times I've tried reinstalling. I run XP 32 bit by the way. Java is enabled and shockwave flash is in the plugin list.
