Adobe\Macromedia Flash

Does anyone know of an alternative software 'Flash Player' because the Adobe Flash will no longer work on my 98se ?

BTW -
Can someone say if there is any correlation whatsoever between
the Adobe Flash and the other thing of theirs called a 'Shockwave Player'
- As via can one run a Flash Player without a Shockwave Player, or are they
joined at the hip ?

 

Adobe Flash Player 9 still supports Windows 98 unless I read this wrong:



Flash and Shockware are different plugins. if you want to know more about the differences, look at one or both of these pages:

Flash and Shockwave: Lets Sort 'em Out.

Flash and Shockwave, What's the Difference?

 

We had the same problem here at the center. One of your systems programmers was mindlessly applying Microsoft updates without thinking. If I remember right we backed off one of the latest updates and it works fine now.

I believe it was the fix to prevent ActiveX from running.

 

Thanks WS., I shall read them - Strangely it was working OK until
I got a dialog to upgrade to the 9.0 odd version and went to Adobe
to install it - from that moment on it went pear shaped - I think Adobe must have uninstalled the version I had, because there's no sign of it, and
as you show - Adobe says this 9.0 version will work on 98, but I don't know that it does.

I removed that player when it wouldn't work and returned to the Flash page and tried again, but instead of installing the Flash it sent me to the Shockwave page - I figured they must know their own products and so I
allowed them to upgrade or whatever Shockwave - mistake - It's only I
who have ended up with waves of Shock - was hoping I could forget I ever heard such names as Adobe\Macromedia just as I did when switching to
the very quick Fox-(it).

 

All the IE browser plug-ins work fine on 98SE (with the exception of Silverlight and the recent builds of Quick Time)
- Shockwave Player. Before installing, download and run the uninstaller.
- Flash Player (for IE and IE-based browsers). Before installing, download and run the uninstaller.
- Java (choose the offline installer). Before installing, uninstall old versions and uninstall the Microsoft Java VM

 

Thanks Lucas.,

I read all the pages mentioned by WS. and yourself, then looked again at your first sentence above and decided I would return to the Adobe Flash Install page one more time and retry - after again checking the 'I Accept'
box and then clicking the 'Install Now' button it simply redirected to the
Shockwave 10.0.0 page -

5 separate times I clicked the back arrow on my machine to return to the 'Flash page' and go through the 'I Accept' and
'Install Now' clicking - On the fifth attempt it looked as though it was
holding on that page, and even my DUN icons were flashing about madly
so I let it go and sure enough after some time a dialog appeared re.,
'click if I trusted them to install' - then the 'Flash' demo. began and
it was working. Have no idea what all that page redirecting was about
but right now - who cares.

I also did take note of your mentioning dumping the MS Java VM and switching to Sun's but apparently there has always been some problem
re. removing MS's Java on 98se - I came across mention of a
MS Java VM removal tool which they offered and then quickly rescinded
but Gizmo tells where to obtain it, so I did.
http://www.techsupportalert.com/how_to_disable_the_microsoft_java_virtual_machine_ msjvm.htm


Thanks again.

 

I still suggest uninstalling and doing a clean install with the offline installers