Existing users, 
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Seemed to Install, but still not Flash content
Feedback Type: Troubleshooting Report
Contributed by: res8q446 Friday, May 16 2008 @ 03:45 AM PDT
Product Platform: MacOSX
Used Product For: Less than a month
Recommend Product: NO
The new Beta 10 has a standard installer and I did not have the permissions problem that kept me from installing anything with Adobe's own Flash 9 installer into my G5 Express with 10.4.9. However if Beta 10 is installed properly, I still am getting the message that I do not have the needed player and QuickTimes are the grayed out incon with a '?'. You don't realize how many things depend on Flash until you try to use the internet without it!
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Seemed to Install, but still not Flash content - sng40
The greyed-out QuickTime with a "?" haunts me all too often. I found two ways to recover from it: (1) remove the new plugins from /Library/Internet Plug-Ins [N.B., this is the Root Directory Folder, not your User Folder ~], or better yet, create a folder within that folder and name it "Disabled Plug-Ins," and move the suspect plug-ins into it, and (2) remove the Safari Preference, com.apple.Safari.plist, from your User Directory Library ~/Library/Preferences, and re-start Safari.You may note, as I did, that before making these fixes, other browsers like Firefox and Opera will play the QuickTime videos, whereas Safari would not. Hope this helps. It took me months of frustration and needless reinstallation of the System at the behest of Apple techs to figure this out myself.
--Steve
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Friday, May 16 2008 @ 09:07 AM PDT