Re: FLASH: Flash 5 Plugin

[Matt Wobensmith]

Darren -


I'm responding to your post here, as well as on FLASHmacromedia. In the

future, I'd like to ask - with all due respect - that you not cross-post the

same question.



You wrote:

>After downloading the plugin, I had to go find it on my hardrive and double

>click it. And the second thing that really bothers me is that it wanted to

>reboot the machine after I had installed it. I don't remember having to reboot

>to install a flash 4 plugin update.



Netscape downloads an installer. You have to launch the installer by

double-clicking on it. Sorry, I agree, it's not seamless, but that's how

plug-ins are installed into that browser. We used to have an auto-install on

Netscape back in the days of Flash 3, but we have since discontinued it. 


IE (on Windows) autoinstalls the ActiveX player. In some cases, it may ask

to reboot, but that is definitely the exception. I don't have an official

answer on why it wants to reboot, but my theory is that the current player

may be in use, and that it won't overwrite the file. 


I agree that this is not an optimal condition, either, but I feel it's more

of an issue with Windows than with Flash, specifically. Installing other

ActiveX controls will exhibit the same behavior. 


We should make a TechNote on this, as it's a very legitimate concern and a

FAQ. I'll see to it that we make one shortly.


Matt




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Matt Wobensmith

Macromedia

Flash Community Manager


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