Upon visiting a site that requires Flash, Safari brins up the 'Plugin not
found' dialog and then forwards me to the Macromedia Flash Download page. The
page does not recognize my browser, but even when I manually download the Mac
Flash installer, the installer does not configure Safari for use, but does find
a PowerPC version of Firefox 1.5. While Firefox proceeds to display Flash
content fine, Safari obviously doesn't. Has anyone found a workaround?

I am having the same exac problem. My co is on a T1 connecion and just
purchased the intel imac dual as well as studio 8 and i cannot view and flash
site through safari. I REFUSE to use IE. has anyone been able to contact
macromedia or get any resolution at all to this problem.

I'm experiencing the same problem. I'm on a home LAN. I thought it was
something I was doing. I'm glad I found this forum. IE sucks on the Mac. I hope
there will be a fix posted for this very soon. I never realized how many sites
used flash until I couldn't access them.

I have the same problem. The Flash 8 Player "Shockwave Flash" plug-in will
not load in OS 10.4.4, but loaded fine when I was using 10.2.8. I tryed using
Safari, Netscape 7.1, and IE it fails in every browser.

Same problem here - thank you for making me realize that I am not going mad. I
searched forums everywhere for info on this issue, but found nothing until now.
What is being done about this? I enjoy safari with the new intel processor -
at least for me it seems to be the quickest. I will check back to see if more
(or any) comments or solutions have been posted. It still sucks, but at least
I know that I'm not alone.

This is because Safari is a Universal Binary and the Flash Player is a PowerPC
binary You can not operate applications in split mode. If Flash Player is
really necessary you can force Safari to operate through Rosetta. Go to
Applications right click Safari and select "Open Usiing Rosetta". You expect
to take a fairly large speed hit if you do this.

Thanks RabidBear, I'm running that now. The option box appears under 'get
info'. No huge speed loss here, actually still loading faster than firefox
was. I noticed that 'open with rosetta' option is not available for all apps,
but it's a good thing to know. Thanks again.

THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU!!!!!!! Both RabidBear and fotofojo.

Same issue on an iMac w / Intel. Not new to computers, but an infant with
Apple. Only issue I have now is that Safari is no longer in my dock. Is there
a way to get it back?

Flash Player works for me without Rosetta on the main (admin) account, but not
on the other non-admin accounts. Anyone else seeing this?

I checked the permissions on the plugin files and they are read/execute
others, so it should work.

Did you install the flash plug-in yourself, or did it work out of the box? I
had limited flash plug-in support on my intel iMac out of the box,
unfortunately, upon installing the Flash program trial, the original plug-in
got overwritten and now it doesn't work anymore natively, only under rosetta.
Is there any place to download the plug-in that came originally with the iMac,
or does anyone where they are on the iMac install disc, or can anyone post them
for download pls.?? Many thanks in advance!!

I'm seeing the same problem here: Safari was fine displaying Flash when
I got the iMac out of the box, then after I installed the Flash
authoring software it's stopped working.

I can't see the 'open with' option if I ctrl-click on the Safari icon
in Applications either.

Have there been any responses from Macromedia on this? Apple?

Anybody?

:)

I am having the same problem. I have an Inel iMac 20-inch Core Duo, I had
installed Dream-weaver, and Flash Video Encoder after those installations flash
stopped working in Safari. The flash plug-in probably got installed during one
of those installations. Even if I delete those plugins from the
~/Library/Internet Plug-Ins folder Safari will still NOT play flash. I guess
APPLE has some proprietary plugin Safari uses. I will be calling Apple tomorrow
about this issue. Well, if worst comes to worst..... I might need to bring out
my OS X 10.4.4 install DVD's.

I already tried reinstalling Safari (deleting Flash plug-in first) from the
iMac install disc, but that doenst place the orinigal plug-in again, so the
plug-ins should be located elsewhere on the discs, but don't know where...
Let's hope Adobe at least updates the plug-in to a universal soon...

I just called Apple. The only semi-solution he gave me was to run Safari under
Rosetta, which I promptly said I "refused" to do. He also suggested
re-installing Safari from the OS X boot disks, however when I tried this I
noticed that Safari is not listed on the "Bundled Software" on the boot disk. I
dont really know what to tell you guys, etheir run Safari under rosetta, or run
Firefox (also under Rosetta). Until Apple gets their stuff together those are
the only solutions I can come up with. If anyone has anymore information please
let me know. :frown;

Any chance of posting the contents of ~/Library/Internet Plug-Ins somewhere as
a .zip maybe? I think it's worth the try, before I engage myself in hours of
erasing and reinstalling the contents of my hard disk :-) Many thanks!!

HOUSTON ... WE HAVE A SOLUTION ... Back up your files onto CD's and be sure you
save all of your 'unretrievable' stuff because the only way you can get your
Safari to work like the day you first got your computer you need to reinsert
your original Apple disks and choose "Erase and Re-install". BINGO! Your
computer will be fresh as a daisy with no bugs from Macromedia to mess up your
internet surfing experience. Maybe one day Macromedia will develop the patch
needed to allow for the upgraded FlashPlayer, but until then .... at least
you'll have your life back!

Had the same problem; I went to the Flash site and updated the plug-in only to
find worse functionality and a constant window popping up telling me I needed
to get a Flash plug-in. People who theorized that the old semi-functional
plug-in was overwritten are correct.

To get the original Apple Flash plugin back on the system, you need to
download Pacifist (shareware), a program which allows you to extract
individual files or folders from the Apple OS Install disc. Open Pacifist and
click Open OS X Install packages. After a slow load (Rosetta) you'll have a
screen full of optional installs. Use the Find search function in Pacifist and
one of the files found is Flash Player.plugin. Extract it to your desktop and
then copy the extracted Flash Player.plugin to the ~/library/internet plug-ins
folder (may want to save the file you're replacing to some other location, just
in case) and voila, you're at least back to the original configuration WITHOUT
a complete reinstall.

Worked for me anyway.

Thanks siderits... I never tried Pacifist with the original install discs...

I found the plugin in \Essentials.pkg and used the contents to overwrite what
was in ~/Library/Internet Plug-Ins and it worked perfectly!!

(Strange however that this universal plug-in wasnt posted on the Adobe site so
far.)

It's not just a Safari thing. Next month Firefox will be updated and run native
and you will notice your plug-in will fail then as well! Firefox doesnt run
Intel native yet, that was the whole point .. If you use the method described
above to extract the flash plugin from the install disc, you can use flash
player in Safari native on Intel (and later in Firefox), which means a faster
browsing experience.

The same thing happened to me. I installed Flash and it somehow prevented
Safari from using the player.

I found an easy solution (or maybe a compromise). I downloaded Firefox for
free. Flash works with it fine. It is also working with Mozilla. It must
just be a Safari thing.:D:cool;

This question was answered by siderits, on Monday, February 6, 2006 10:33 PM.
I did what siderits suggested. I Googled Pacifist and downloaded it. You don't
have to pay for it if you are trying it out. I followed the rest of his
instructions and I now have my Flash Player back. I owe this guy big time. It
really,really works. Be sure and restart your computer when you are through
installing the Flash Player plugin. I went to a site that had been giving me
the dreaded QuickTime symbol with a question mark over it and it loads
perfectly. Truly a lesson about loading software on a machine lke this whithout
thinking that it is not the same as the previious Macs. Thanks everyone. iMac
20" Intel

Found this link in another forum.