Adding Flash Player to Firefox Portable without Admin Access

I hate Internet Explorer 6 with a passion. It’s archaic and it makes my blog a pig sty.

Unfortunately I have to use Internet Explorer 6 at work everyday for the many applications that our business uses.  There’s been much talk about upgrading the Internet Explorer 7.  I can’t see it happening. Two years down the track I can still see us using Windows XP with Internet Explorer 6. It feels like I’m in the dark ages at work. For a computer geek this is extremely  frustrating!

I downloaded firefox some time ago to use as a seperate browser on my work computer. I’m actually surprised that I was able to install the application considering I don’t have Administration Access. The only issue I have had since installing Firefox is that I could not download and install flash player due to the lack of Admin Access.

Grudgingly I’ve had to view youtube and flash enabled websites in IE6. Very slow and painful for me. Until now.

Today I found a fantastic work around to enable flash in Firefox without Administration Access from varesano.net.

It’s very easy. You download a file from withinVaresno’s post, change it to a zip folder, extract two files from the zip folder and copy the files into your plugin folder in Firefox. Restart the browser and “presto” no pop up button asking you to install a plugin. It even worked for my portable firefox.

The bonus for me is that it has also fixed the issues I had with the new version of Wordpress in Firefox. Previously I couldn’t see the Rich Text Editor when posting. Despite re-upgrading it did not fix the issues at work.

I now feel as though I’m somewhere back in the present.