You are here: Home » All Software Solutions » How to Activate Adobe Flash Player and Make it Work in IE and Firefox?

How to Activate Adobe Flash Player and Make it Work in IE and Firefox?

Find different solutions to activate Adobe Flash Player to work in IE and Firefox.
This month's most popular software guide you should know - No iTunes to copy files on Mac to iPhone


Adobe Flash Player is a useful and simple tool for us to enjoy Flash files, while sometimes we may run into such conditions that pop-up notes warn you should install Adobe Flash Player, even if we have installed it onto PC. What's wrong with it? Or what's the rest job we have to finish?

Solution 1. Set Parameters in IE as well as Firefox

  1. The common reason of it lies in the JaveScript - if it is prohibited by your browser (IE and Firefox), the flash files cannot be played automatically. How to set the appropriate selection in IE and Firefox? I will show you step by step.

    Start up IE - choose "Tools" - "Internet Options", and then click "Security" Tab:

    choose parameters in IE
  2. Next, click " Custom Level" button at the bottom:

    Custom Level Setting

  3. Then you will see the settings of IE - and scroll down your mouse to "Scripting" - "Active Scripting" and then choose "Enable":

    active scripting enable

    Click "OK" to finish the settings. Restart IE and the setting will activate.

Adjust settings in Firefox

  1. Start up Firefox - choose "Tools" - select "Content":

    Adjust settings in Firefox

  2. Already done? OK, see the selections under "Content":

    Enable JavaScript in Firefox

    and then click "OK". You need restart Firefox to activate this setting.

Solution 2. Download Firefox Extensions to support Adobe Flash Player

    There are many Firefox add-ons and extensions to support this safe browser, and most of them are free. If you are interested in all kinds of flash files and want to enjoy them without limitations, then OOK?Video OOK! for Firefox is a must - download tool, which finds the hidden videos for you.

    If you do hope to filter some flash files, then Noscript is the exact program you are after.


Solution 3. Suitable Solution to both IE and Firefox

    If the above settings have been adjusted and there is no positive result, it is suggested that you visit Adobe Flash Player support Center to test.

Related Software: Adobe Flash Player - SWF Player    

Recommended Essentialware
Windows media player 12
With it, you can play audio, video and viewing images on Windows 7 and have a great experience.
Norton Internet Security 2010
Norton Internet Security 2010 offers comprehensive protection against all types of online threats.
WinRAR 3.9
WinRAR is an powerful archiving utility that completely supports RAR and ZIP archives.

Recommended Software
Photo Recovery for Mac
Recover digital photo, audio and video files even when they deleted or memory card, removable media is formatted.
iPhone SMS Transfer
Transfer both all or single SMS from iPhone, iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS to computer for Windows.
DVD to BlackBerry Converter Software
Powerful DVD to BlackBerry converter software to convert DVD to video format AVI, 3GP, MP4, WMV and audio format MP3, AAC, WMA for BlackBerry.

by lucy on 05/08/2008Web Developer
Tags:download Flash Player, play Flash files, activate Adobe Flash Player, make flash player actually work, activate flash player in IE, activate flash player in Firefox

Top Reviews

on Web Developer