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Can't print flash swf after latest Windows security update

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After the latest security update for Windows 10, I haven't been able to print from Mozilla 49.0.1, i disabled the Adobe Flash protected mode but the problem persists also reinstalled Mozilla erased every previous printer profile but nothing seems to work I'm not experiencing this issue under any other browser. Unfortunately I use this functionality on a daily basis. Flash player is up to date 23.0.0.162.

Thanks! I would really appreciate any help.

After the latest security update for Windows 10, I haven't been able to print from Mozilla 49.0.1, i disabled the Adobe Flash protected mode but the problem persists also reinstalled Mozilla erased every previous printer profile but nothing seems to work I'm not experiencing this issue under any other browser. Unfortunately I use this functionality on a daily basis. Flash player is up to date 23.0.0.162. Thanks! I would really appreciate any help.

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Win 7 has a program called; Snipping Tool. I don't know about Win 10.

Start Firefox in Safe Mode {web Link} by holding down the <Shift>
(Mac=Options)
key, and then starting Firefox. A small dialog should appear. Click Start In Safe Mode (not Refresh).

Is the problem still there?

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I'm sorry i couldn't answer before, start in safe mode was the first thing i tried, anyway it wouldn't solve the issue only would be a temporary solution.

Thank you for your help!

Cheers

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I'm not sure I understand how Flash is involved. Is the problem printing Flash embedded in a web page, or Flash loaded stand-alone in its own tab, or printing ANY web page? What happens when you try to print: no response, missing content, error message, etc.?

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Hi   !
Would you take a look at this article:
'Fix printing problems in Firefox':     http://mzl.la/1BAQqop

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It's Flash embedded in a web page called using a launcher (swfobject.embedSWF("launcher.swf?m=" + ("False" == "False" ? 0 : 1) When i try to print there's no reponse at all.

Thank you for your help! jscher2000

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jscher2000 said

I'm not sure I understand how Flash is involved. Is the problem printing Flash embedded in a web page, or Flash loaded stand-alone in its own tab, or printing ANY web page? What happens when you try to print: no response, missing content, error message, etc.?

It's Flash embedded in a web page called using a launcher (swfobject.embedSWF("launcher.swf?m=" + ("False" == "False" ? 0 : 1) When i try to print there's no reponse at all.

Thank you for your help! jscher2000

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Happy112 said

Hi   !
Would you take a look at this article:
'Fix printing problems in Firefox':     http://mzl.la/1BAQqop
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IvanAra said

It's Flash embedded in a web page called using a launcher (swfobject.embedSWF("launcher.swf?m=" + ("False" == "False" ? 0 : 1) When i try to print there's no reponse at all.

Are you using Ctrl+p to print? If the Flash plugin is active, it will intercept keyboard commands. You may need to click an area of the web page outside of the Flash plugin -- if there is any such area.

Alternately, can you use the menu to print? If it's a popup window that doesn't show any menus (either classic menu bar or the "3-bar" menu button on the toolbar) you can modify some settings to alter what sites are allowed to hide on popup windows. Here's how:

(1) In a new tab, type or paste about:config in the address bar and press Enter/Return. Click the button promising to be careful.

(2) In the search box above the list, type or paste feat and pause while the list is filtered

(3) Double-click the dom.disable_window_open_feature.menubar preference to switch the value from false to true -- this disables sites from launching popup windows that hide the menu bar

(4) Double-click the dom.disable_window_open_feature.toolbar preference to switch the value from false to true -- this disables sites from launching popup windows that hide the main toolbar

If you want to test the results, you can use the third link on this page: https://jeffersonscher.com/res/popit.html (after launching the popup, tap the Alt key to activate the menu bar and try File > Print)

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Happy112 said

Hi   !
Would you take a look at this article:
'Fix printing problems in Firefox':     http://mzl.la/1BAQqop

Hi!

I checked the article a couple of weeks ago, i followed every step but unsuccessfully.

Thank you!

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jscher2000 said

IvanAra said
It's Flash embedded in a web page called using a launcher (swfobject.embedSWF("launcher.swf?m=" + ("False" == "False" ? 0 : 1) When i try to print there's no reponse at all.

Are you using Ctrl+p to print? If the Flash plugin is active, it will intercept keyboard commands. You may need to click an area of the web page outside of the Flash plugin -- if there is any such area.

Alternately, can you use the menu to print? If it's a popup window that doesn't show any menus (either classic menu bar or the "3-bar" menu button on the toolbar) you can modify some settings to alter what sites are allowed to hide on popup windows. Here's how:

(1) In a new tab, type or paste about:config in the address bar and press Enter/Return. Click the button promising to be careful.

(2) In the search box above the list, type or paste feat and pause while the list is filtered

(3) Double-click the dom.disable_window_open_feature.menubar preference to switch the value from false to true -- this disables sites from launching popup windows that hide the menu bar

(4) Double-click the dom.disable_window_open_feature.toolbar preference to switch the value from false to true -- this disables sites from launching popup windows that hide the main toolbar

If you want to test the results, you can use the third link on this page: https://jeffersonscher.com/res/popit.html (after launching the popup, tap the Alt key to activate the menu bar and try File > Print)

jscher2000 said

IvanAra said
It's Flash embedded in a web page called using a launcher (swfobject.embedSWF("launcher.swf?m=" + ("False" == "False" ? 0 : 1) When i try to print there's no reponse at all.

Are you using Ctrl+p to print? If the Flash plugin is active, it will intercept keyboard commands. You may need to click an area of the web page outside of the Flash plugin -- if there is any such area.

Alternately, can you use the menu to print? If it's a popup window that doesn't show any menus (either classic menu bar or the "3-bar" menu button on the toolbar) you can modify some settings to alter what sites are allowed to hide on popup windows. Here's how:

(1) In a new tab, type or paste about:config in the address bar and press Enter/Return. Click the button promising to be careful.

(2) In the search box above the list, type or paste feat and pause while the list is filtered

(3) Double-click the dom.disable_window_open_feature.menubar preference to switch the value from false to true -- this disables sites from launching popup windows that hide the menu bar

(4) Double-click the dom.disable_window_open_feature.toolbar preference to switch the value from false to true -- this disables sites from launching popup windows that hide the main toolbar

If you want to test the results, you can use the third link on this page: https://jeffersonscher.com/res/popit.html (after launching the popup, tap the Alt key to activate the menu bar and try File > Print)

Thank you again! I'll try and give you further feedback.

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IvanAra said

jscher2000 said
IvanAra said
It's Flash embedded in a web page called using a launcher (swfobject.embedSWF("launcher.swf?m=" + ("False" == "False" ? 0 : 1) When i try to print there's no reponse at all.

Are you using Ctrl+p to print? If the Flash plugin is active, it will intercept keyboard commands. You may need to click an area of the web page outside of the Flash plugin -- if there is any such area.

Alternately, can you use the menu to print? If it's a popup window that doesn't show any menus (either classic menu bar or the "3-bar" menu button on the toolbar) you can modify some settings to alter what sites are allowed to hide on popup windows. Here's how:

(1) In a new tab, type or paste about:config in the address bar and press Enter/Return. Click the button promising to be careful.

(2) In the search box above the list, type or paste feat and pause while the list is filtered

(3) Double-click the dom.disable_window_open_feature.menubar preference to switch the value from false to true -- this disables sites from launching popup windows that hide the menu bar

(4) Double-click the dom.disable_window_open_feature.toolbar preference to switch the value from false to true -- this disables sites from launching popup windows that hide the main toolbar

If you want to test the results, you can use the third link on this page: https://jeffersonscher.com/res/popit.html (after launching the popup, tap the Alt key to activate the menu bar and try File > Print)

jscher2000 said

IvanAra said
It's Flash embedded in a web page called using a launcher (swfobject.embedSWF("launcher.swf?m=" + ("False" == "False" ? 0 : 1) When i try to print there's no reponse at all.

Are you using Ctrl+p to print? If the Flash plugin is active, it will intercept keyboard commands. You may need to click an area of the web page outside of the Flash plugin -- if there is any such area.

Alternately, can you use the menu to print? If it's a popup window that doesn't show any menus (either classic menu bar or the "3-bar" menu button on the toolbar) you can modify some settings to alter what sites are allowed to hide on popup windows. Here's how:

(1) In a new tab, type or paste about:config in the address bar and press Enter/Return. Click the button promising to be careful.

(2) In the search box above the list, type or paste feat and pause while the list is filtered

(3) Double-click the dom.disable_window_open_feature.menubar preference to switch the value from false to true -- this disables sites from launching popup windows that hide the menu bar

(4) Double-click the dom.disable_window_open_feature.toolbar preference to switch the value from false to true -- this disables sites from launching popup windows that hide the main toolbar

If you want to test the results, you can use the third link on this page: https://jeffersonscher.com/res/popit.html (after launching the popup, tap the Alt key to activate the menu bar and try File > Print)

Thank you again! I'll try and give you further feedback.

I'm not using Ctrl+p to print.

First of all, let me give you some context, we are an application development company based in Chile, we developed an app

written in ActionScript 2  in order to print we use PrintJob, the main issue is that we have a big client list and a lot of our users and currently using Mozilla under Windows 10  (i'm not) so we've been unable to fix this problem.

Thank you and sorry for bothering you with all the extra info.

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IvanAra said

... we developed an app written in ActionScript 2 in order to print we use PrintJob...

I see. Then what I was describing before was the opposite of what you want. You want the plugin to direct the printing, not Firefox.

Could you check on Adobe's forums to see whether this is a known issue with Firefox 49 (assuming the problem started in Firefox 49) or with the last Windows 10 update?

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jscher2000 said

IvanAra said
... we developed an app written in ActionScript 2 in order to print we use PrintJob...

I see. Then what I was describing before was the opposite of what you want. You want the plugin to direct the printing, not Firefox.

Could you check on Adobe's forums to see whether this is a known issue with Firefox 49 (assuming the problem started in Firefox 49) or with the last Windows 10 update?

I think you're right. I'll check on Adobe's forum.

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Are the customers having difficulties using the 64-bit version of Firefox?* That's an optional release for Windows users; the 32-bit release is still the default version. This is from the days of Firefox 43, so might not be relevant any more, but just in case:

Printjob.start() returns false on Firefox 64 bit for Windows |Adobe Community

* Here's one way to check: Have the user type about:plugins in the address bar and press Enter or Return to load that internal page. The Shockwave Flash plugin will have a different file name for 32-bit and 64-bit Firefox on Windows:

  • 32-bit: NPSWF32_23_0_0_162.dll
  • 64-bit: NPSWF64_23_0_0_162.dll
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jscher2000 said

Are the customers having difficulties using the 64-bit version of Firefox?* That's an optional release for Windows users; the 32-bit release is still the default version. This is from the days of Firefox 43, so might not be relevant any more, but just in case: Printjob.start() returns false on Firefox 64 bit for Windows |Adobe Community * Here's one way to check: Have the user type about:plugins in the address bar and press Enter or Return to load that internal page. The Shockwave Flash plugin will have a different file name for 32-bit and 64-bit Firefox on Windows:
  • 32-bit: NPSWF32_23_0_0_162.dll
  • 64-bit: NPSWF64_23_0_0_162.dll

Wow I'm impressed you're really a contribution for this forum. Thanks!