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Have windows XP. Unable to play videos. I have updated the newest flashware but still unable to play videos - example CNN & FOX news videos

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Get message "Flash Plug in will not load"

I have updated to newest Flash Player & Firefox

Operating system Windows XP --- never had a problem until 3 weeks ago. Can not even play videos from CNN or FOX

How do I fix the problem

Get message "Flash Plug in will not load" I have updated to newest Flash Player & Firefox Operating system Windows XP --- never had a problem until 3 weeks ago. Can not even play videos from CNN or FOX How do I fix the problem

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Note Microsoft does not provide the codecs needed to play HTML5 video for WInXP as they do for Vista and newer.

With some workarounds you may be able to. http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/175591-enable-mp4-h264-aac-html5-video-in-firefox-on-windows-xp-without-flash/

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Firefox is not made for windows XP try upgrading to windows 7! Here is How

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You two different Flash plugins for Firefox on your system.

Shockwave Flash 13.0 r0
Shockwave Flash 23.0 r0 


Adobe Flash is notorious for not always removing old Flash Plugin DLL files as part of a Flash program update. Sometimes the user needs to uninstall Flash completely and get a clean start.

First, grab the Adobe uninstaller from here: http://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/kb/uninstall-flash-player-windows.html

2nd, get Flash here: https://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/ Make sure that you deselect the "Optional offers".

Run the Flash uninstaller program, then reboot your PC. Then install the Plugin version of Flash. So you'll have a clean installation of Flash for Firefox.

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prestontoborg said

Firefox is not made for windows XP try upgrading to windows 7! Here is How

Wrong! Mozilla still supports WinXP, at least until next spring.

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prestontoborg said

Firefox is not made for windows XP try upgrading to windows 7!

Firefox works on Windows XP SP2 (and SP3) all the way to Windows 10. However Firefox 53.0 and later will be dropping WinXP and Vista support. WinXP and Vista users can use the then Firefox 52 ESR for security updates for a while still as the 52.8.0 ESR will be out when Firefox 60.0 is released.

https://www.mozilla.org/firefox/50.0.2/system-requirements/

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Note Microsoft does not provide the codecs needed to play HTML5 video for WInXP as they do for Vista and newer.

With some workarounds you may be able to. http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/175591-enable-mp4-h264-aac-html5-video-in-firefox-on-windows-xp-without-flash/