I had to create a short presentation when the church’s website that I was developing ready. Instead of using powerpoint slides or screenshot slideshow to do the presentation, I wanted to do something that has more impact. So I opt for flash intro which comes together with nice animation and music as well. When I finished creating the 1 minute flash intro, I did a test run on the computer that was connected to the projector. The problem that I faced was the computer that is connected to the projector doesn’t have an Internet connection and it only has Internet Explorer 8 without flash player.

I could easily download the flash player offline installer to a USB flash drive and install it on the computer but that would be the last alternative because I don’t want to install stuff on other people’s computer. Probably the easiest way to play the flash intro is to use a portable version of Firefox with Flash support.


All you need to do is go to a computer that has flash installed and copy the NPSWF32.dll file from C:\Windows\System32\Macromed\Flash to the \FirefoxPortable\Data\plugins folder. MozillaZine Knowledge Base also did mention to copy the flashplayer.xpt file to the plugins or components folder but it is not really necessary because it is for scripting support. To play flash on Firefox Portable, only NPSWF32.dll is needed.

To make sure that flash is properly installed and loaded into your Firefox portable, type about:plugins at the URL bar and hit enter. You should see Shockwave Flash together with the filename and version listed on that page. Alternatively, you can also do that from the Add-ons Manager (Ctrl+Shift+A) > Plugins.

After the flash presentation, I simply deleted the Firefox Portable folder and the computer is back to the way it was, untouched.