Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Install Flash on Google Chrome without admin rights.

Imagine you are sitting at your work computer, trying to do your job.
But those lovely people in IT have taken away every single administration right on your desktop.
You don't want to use the standard IE7 (because it doesn't fucking work!), and Firefox/Chrome/Pale Moon/Opera requires a few plugins (such as Flash) in order to work.
No administration rights means no installing Flash, right?
Wrong - I love the interwebs, and this is what they furnished me (Chrome instructions - for others, just find the relevant application folder):
  1. Download this xpi file.
  2. Rename that file it to .zip file.
  3. Extract it with Winzip
  4. Copy the flashplayer.xpt and NPSWF32.dll files.
  5. Open Windows Explorer and navigate to C:/Documents and settings/”YOUR USER NAME”/Local Settings/Application Data/Google/Chrome/Application/Plugins/
  6. Paste those files in to this folder
  7. Close and restart Chrome
  8. Open a Flash page (YouTube is a good test)
Go interwebs! Boo IT geeks!

2 comments:

  1. You should be fine, what with the completely open-source workplace that you command!

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