
Next Hit Ctrl+V or Right-Click and Select to Pasteboth of the copied files you the folder. In Explorer, Browse to: C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\plugins

Hold down the Ctrl key on your keyboard and next Click both the files flashplayer.xpt and NPSWF32.dll (CTRL allows you to select multiple files.) Now you’ll need to copy the files, so you can Right-Click one and Select Copy, or just Hit Ctrl+c on your keyboard as a shortcut.Ĥ.a This option is if you want the plugin to install for all of your users. Rename the file to flashplayer-win.zip it so that windows can open it.ģ. Right-Click the Download Link below and Click Save Link As then browse to your Downloads folder or the location where you chose to save it.Ģ. Now that we have that let’s get started! How to Install Flash Plugin Manually in Firefox on Windows 7 or Vistaġ. After a bit of digging, I was able to scrape the address of the XPI file for Flash from the Adobe site. So technically this process should work not just for Adobe Flash, but for any Firefox plugin. Well, when the automatic won’t work, it’s time to switch to the manual method, but don’t worry you won’t have to get your fingers too greasy (hopefully.) Firefox uses XPI files to install the plugin packages available to Firefox.

The wizard doesn’t work, the restart doesn’t’ work, it just won’t install! What should I do?” There is an ‘Install Missing Plugins’ button that I’ve gone through many times. “Mrgroove, please help, I’ve installed Firefox on Windows, and I can’t get the flash plugin to install.
