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Flash is not detected on IE8 and IE9 #642

Open GoogleCodeExporter opened 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
I tried stepping through the code and came to the conclusion that 
navigator.plugins is an empty array, so that won't work. This is as per the 
MSDN documentation. The second method used is the ActiveX creation method, and 
that also fails, leaving swfobject to think that Flash is not installed.

Embedding Flash using embedSWF() works fine.
Flash 11.4 is installed and enabled.
Plugins are enabled normally.
No firewall or antivirus blocking Flash.
Everything working fine in Firefox.

This is the 32-bits IE9 (and IE9-as-IE8) in Windows 7 x64 SP1. Reproducible on 
other pc's with the same OS config, but different users/settings.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by thany81 on 23 Oct 2012 at 11:38

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Whoops, I was mistakes, embedSWF is actually NOT working fine. It too checks 
whether Flash is available, and it thinks it isn't.

Original comment by thany81 on 23 Oct 2012 at 11:45

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Okay, I found it working by unchecking Tools -> ActiveX Filtering.

Apparantly a sysadmin at our office decided it was probably a good idea to 
check this on everyone's pc. Thank you, sysadmin :(

Original comment by thany81 on 25 Oct 2012 at 10:24