RE: FLASH: GGGGRRRR Shockwave Bug Summary (Slightly OT)

[John Dowdell]

At 7:19 AM 8/27/99, Curtis Bay wrote:

> If you have Shockwave 7.0 installed, update to 7.02 on Netscape,

> then visit 7.0 content with IE the Shocwave installation will

> become corrupted.


fwiw, what others experience is that updating the system player via one

browser will, at most, prompt for an update of the browser shim in other

browsers. (Rephrased, many people update via Netscape and then view pages

using IE/Win32 without seeing what you saw.)




> If you have disabled the Auto-update feature like I always do,

> a bug in Shockwave also disables an autorepair feature, hence

> your Shockwave installation can't be fixed by going to MM's web

> site as the plugin recommends you do when encountering the corruption.


Yes, if you set your Shockwave Player to not divulge anything about itself,

then it would be hard for the server to automatically supply any missing

elements, that's true. If you're trying to complete a partial install, then

not hiding what you already have is a good approach to take.



I'm glad that you pursued this with the player specialists... in the next

rev we'll have to find ways to prevent this combination of choices, thanks.


jd






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