Has anyone else had trouble installing the latest Flash plugin on Firefox? When I click on “Install” on the Adobe page (http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/), it always comes up with the “additional plugins needed” bar at the top of the screen. If I click on the button to missing plugins, I (eventually) end up downloading a gp.xpi file to my disk.
WTF is gp.xpi, and how can I get Flash installed? This is on FF 3.6.6, Windows 7 64bit.
Adobe insists on providing Flash through their own proprietary installer add-on when you request Flash for the browser that’s currently running. The only solution I found is to download IE Flash from Firefox, and Firefox Flash from IE. That way you get a proper offline installer for either browser.
Wow, that was fast. But it worked! Thanks, Chris!
2 download links at the bottom of this page:
http://fpdownload.adobe.com/get/flashplayer/current/install_flash_player_ax.exe
http://fpdownload.adobe.com/get/flashplayer/current/install_flash_player.exe