Hi Mitch,
I also use FireBird but have yet to get Flash working. Can you comment on what advice you got from Asa to get the flash plugin working?
Thanks,

Posted by: George at July 2, 2003 07:46 PM

Fascinating... SPAM in weblog comments (first comment here). That'll make all of us webloggers happy! And sell lots of product too I'm sure.

Posted by: Jim Jarrett at July 3, 2003 12:04 PM

Getting Flash to work properly is dealt with at http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/faqs/phoenixwin.html

I had mised the fact that if Firebird wasn't shown as one of the browsers that the Flash installer discovered, you could click a button and navigate to its plug-in folder, and the Flash installer would find it.

There are additional subtleties. Maybe the info in the URL will help.

Posted by: Mitch Kapor at July 6, 2003 11:28 AM

Just so we're clear here. :)

One of the pre-eminent figures in the software industry needed someone who codes Mozilla to help him install the Flash plug-in in Mozilla's latest Web browser? Is that what I just read?

If this is how Mozilla supports it's products for all users, I'll switch right now. --Paul

Posted by: Paul Thurrott at July 9, 2003 07:18 AM

Conversely, it also says something about Mozilla's remaining rough edges. Other browsers (including IE long before it was even a half-decent product) have done a bit of poking around during installation to find plugins and grab copies of them from elsewhere on the user's hard drive. It's not too hard on a modern Windows, Mac or even Unix system to check program registries, common environment settings and config files, and even default installation paths to find existing plugins most on most machines. I use Firebird for most of my browsing and think it's very much ready for public consumption, but it still has little usability gaps here and there.

Posted by: s.m. koppelman at July 10, 2003 05:51 PM