FF55 and flashgames

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FF55 and flashgames

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Updated from 54.0.1 to 55 manually (all went smoothly except adblock lost several blocked addresses and that got solved by restoring backup) but after playing with some flashgames I noticed that mousescrolling doesn't work and there's delay in cursor's movement to where user wants it to go. Both are not wanted things when only control is mouse.
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Re: FF55 and flashgames

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Moving to Firefox Support.

Have you confirmed that you have the latest version of Flash installed? That would be 26.0.0.151/
Do you have hardware acceleration disabled in Firefox? Menu path Tools->Options->General.
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Does the issue persist if you restart FF in Safe Mode?
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Re: FF55 and flashgames

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Flash is up-to-date since I update it on same day as Microsoft releases its updates since Adobe does same.

I have tick in box on general tab.

Don't know how to play flashgames in browser w/o flashplayer which won't operate in safe mode.
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Flash is Plugin & is not affected by (FF) Safe Mode.

FF 55 release notes did mention that with 55, Flash is set to click-to-play.
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Re: FF55 and flashgames

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Well when I tried 1 game I have problems with FF55 game didn't load at all (or was given notification to start Flash like Chrome does occasionally) as it does on normal or private mode.

Also now leftclicks are counted as rightclicks atleast sometimes (on flashgame site), no that problem with Chrome (portable) on same site.

Also FF totally hanged itself when I clicked link to game which had graphically heavy flashgame and most of time I couldn't do anything else than switch windows occasionally and situation stayed same until I terminated FF's process, no problems with Chrome (portable) with same game on same site so its clearly FF issue.
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Re: FF55 and flashgames

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What site, what game?
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Re: FF55 and flashgames

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Mousewheeling doesn't work in crusaders of lost idols (kongregate and needs kong account) and in agame all leftclicks are counted as rightclicks and gamw which hanged FF is Knights of Magic and Steel (in agame), all those games and rest worked just fine before updating to version 55.
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Re: FF55 and flashgames

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https://bigfarm.goodgamestudios.com/ became unplayable for me after the update.
(You do not have to have an account or log in for this problem to occur, for me anyway)

After a few minutes, the cursor will change from the game cursor (large arrow), to the regular mouse cursor, and quickly alternate between the two (like split second).
When this happens, I am no longer able to click on anything within the game.
I posted on their forum as well, but didn't receive any replies.
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AndyTwobeats, I checked out that site and had no such problem, even after leaving the site active in the background for more than half an hour.
Have you confirmed that you are running the most recent version of Adobe's Flash Player? That would be 26.0.0.151
Did you try launching Firefox into Mozilla Safe Mode?
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Re: FF55 and flashgames

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Hi Dan,

Yes, that's the version of Adobe Flash Player I have installed (says it was last updated August 13, 2017)
For some reason I can't get Flash to run in safe mode
In the "Add Ons" tab, I unchecked the box that says "Enable Adobe Flash Protected Mode", but even after doing so, if I go to https://bigfarm.goodgamestudios.com/ to try and play the game, I just get a message on the page telling me I need to install Adobe Flash.
Then of course if I try doing so after it tells me, I restart in normal mode instead of safe mode, so I'm not sure what to do.
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Re: FF55 and flashgames

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Go to the Add-ons tab and make sure you have Flash set to "Always activate".
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Re: FF55 and flashgames

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Yes, I have it set to that, I also tried "Ask to activate" and both were a no go.
End result was that page telling me I needed to install Adobe Flash.
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Re: FF55 and flashgames

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OK, try this. First uninstall Flash and then reinstall it. See the reply in this thread from dfoulkes -- http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic ... #p14723793
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Re: FF55 and flashgames

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I'll give that a try, thanks for all your help so far, much appreciated!
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