Flash Player 10 Beta breaks file upload

  • I just installed the beta version of Adobe’s new Flash Player 10 and it broke WordPress’s file upload capability. In particular, clicking any of the “Add Media” buttons did correctly display a dialog box to upload or link to media. But then clicking on the “Choose Files to Upload” button did nothing at all. Reinstalling Adobe Flash Player 9.0.124.0 fixed the problem. Thus I am pretty sure the problem is with Flash Player 10 Beta—not with WordPress or any other configurations on my browser or computer.

    But consider this post a heads up about potential problems with Adobe Flash Player 10 one a final version is released.

    Note that I am running Mac OS X 10.5.2 (Leopard) and Firefox 2.0.0.14 on an Intel-based MacBook, not that I believe those details are necessarily relevant.

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  • Hi ppl,

    here I pack all what you need when you want to back to Flash Player V9

    Link:

    https://rapidshare.com/files/190103051/Flash_player_9.rar

    – Uninstall V10,
    – Install V9 for Firefox etc.
    – Check flash version…

    Note:
    Before uninstall and install all web browsers must be closed !

    still no improvements on this? no one side is willing to change?

    Second… “it seems unlikely that Flash 10 will be able to do any sort of uploading of any kind.” Is just completely untrue. Adobe is not removing uploading features in Flash 10. The problem is the interaction with the SWFUpload JavaScript library. Flash 10 does not allow you to open a file browse dialog except via a direct mouse click. It is that SWFUpload tries to open the dialog indirectly that causes it to fail.

    This sounds like a reasonable security upgrade and it sounds reasonable to expect sites to fix their uploaders so that they comply with the security upgrade. Adobe thought it important enough to update despite knowing that it would cause this sort of thing to happen at Yahoo, WordPress, …, etc.

    In the meantime, I took the suggestion on another post to use the NextGen plugin instead and I’m happy to report that it works. I’m once again able to upload images. I also had the problem of not being able to add images from the media library. Running 2.7.1 on shared Unix/MySQL/Apache hosting that’s never had this sort of problem before. Using FireFox 3.0.6, Mac OS X 10.5.6.

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