Instant play for Fire Fox fixed!
Good news everybody! Thanks to Chris Krier, instant play on Fire Fox has now been fixed!! So many Many MANY thanks to Chris for this help, we simply haven’t had the time to delve into the problem so were overjoyed to see a solution magically appear.
This solves the dreaded “install script not found – 204″ error, which Fire Fox has been throwing up. It turns out that the plug-in was fine! But the ZIP program we use to automatically create the archive was adding a new YoYo “root” folder, which meant that the file install.rdf and the folders META-INF and plugins were not in the root directory. And because of this, Fire Fox couldn’t find the install script, and so refused to install it.
So anyone who has manually copied the instant play DLL into their C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\plugins or C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox\plugins (for x64) directory, should now be able to delete it, and then install the plug-in as normal. Lastly though, be sure to clear your internet CACHE before trying this again, as it’ll keep picking up the old one. I had the same problem, and this fix has worked great for me.
Again, many thanks to Chris for his help.
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July 16th, 2010 at 9:37 am
Nice. I’m sure that if I used Firefox instead of Chrome, I’d be nearly eternally grateful. Still, it’s good to see progress being made.
July 16th, 2010 at 9:52 am
Oh good, now I don’t have to use IE anymore.
July 16th, 2010 at 10:09 am
Yeah, Chrome user here. But I only download games anyway, no use it having an plugin taking up browser resources.
July 16th, 2010 at 11:19 am
Great news! I love Firefox
July 16th, 2010 at 11:20 am
Make sure this doesn’t happen again with Firefocx 4.0
July 16th, 2010 at 12:36 pm
ROFL! I posted a fix for this AGES ago on the GMC… You “professionals” only just figured it out?
July 16th, 2010 at 12:52 pm
[...] months since the initial release of Instant Play for FireFox 3.6, YoYo Games has finally released a fix. A fix was released by Revel exactly 2 months ago at the Game Maker Community which leaves you [...]
July 16th, 2010 at 1:00 pm
Great news! It installed fine for me. Thank you Chris!
July 16th, 2010 at 1:21 pm
@Brad – you should have emailed us here at yoyo to let us know… we cannot read everything on the forums.
July 16th, 2010 at 2:17 pm
Ugh, it’s “Firefox” please. Cringing each time “Fire Fox” shows up.
July 16th, 2010 at 3:27 pm
Good for all of us Firefox users.
July 16th, 2010 at 4:00 pm
HM….
July 16th, 2010 at 4:00 pm
It would be nice if you wrote Firefox, instead of Fire Fox.
July 16th, 2010 at 4:13 pm
Okay! Now I can actually play games without cluttering my desktop!
July 16th, 2010 at 4:29 pm
Thank you so much for fixing the problem. Instant play kept crashing on chrome and I hate IE. I’m glad I can play games on Firefox once more.
July 16th, 2010 at 7:29 pm
This is awesome, but I already had it installed. My tutorial in the Unofficial Site Q&A is now useless. ; – ;
July 16th, 2010 at 9:55 pm
Awesome! Thank you, Mr. Chris Krier, and all you folks at YYG!
Brandon W. Horton
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July 16th, 2010 at 10:59 pm
Sounds good. I used to use Firefox all of the time until I discovered Chrome.
July 17th, 2010 at 1:11 am
Spelling it “Fire Fox” instead of “Firefox” is just one of these small things that make YoYo Games look so unprofessional…
July 17th, 2010 at 11:41 am
Complaining about Firefox being written as Fire Fox for the third time already in the same glog post makes you look like a moron.
July 17th, 2010 at 3:01 pm
Sweet. Thanks for having fixed this, guys. :]
July 17th, 2010 at 5:10 pm
Tepi: Watch your back when you go in the streets…
July 18th, 2010 at 12:21 am
yes, now safari is left, cmon make it quickley
July 18th, 2010 at 1:13 am
Yush! Can finally play games again.
July 18th, 2010 at 2:46 am
@Vlaeder Um, you could still download games. o_O Are people really this lazy as to abandon playing YYG games at all if they can’t do it “instantly”, rather than downloading the games like it used to be?
July 18th, 2010 at 4:30 am
That is really good. Because i haven’t bean playing many games because the instant play was out. also Why did you switch from make a glog account to type your name and e male every time?
July 18th, 2010 at 8:17 pm
I hope this works with FireFox 4, So far its working with 3.6 but the 4′s Beta i get the message “The download of http://www.yoyogames.com/plugins/firefox/YoYo.xpi failed: -3″
July 19th, 2010 at 8:58 am
what about firefox 4.0, beta plugins though?
July 19th, 2010 at 12:30 pm
Yhea finally, i wait this moment for much time…
July 19th, 2010 at 1:41 pm
Strange!? Now the YoYo Games Instant Play extension for google chrome isn’t working anymore!!!
July 19th, 2010 at 7:05 pm
Yeah, the Chrome plugin doesn’t work on all games.
I actually posted details about this three days ago but my comment is “awaiting moderation” for some strange reason.
July 19th, 2010 at 7:35 pm
Huh. I haven’t tried playing any Instant Play games recently, but thanks for the heads up when I do.
July 20th, 2010 at 5:08 pm
Please, please make it work for Safari. I mean, if you are working on GM for Mac then there should be a Safari instant play soon…
July 20th, 2010 at 6:08 pm
so does this mean I’ll have to download GM8 all over again? If so, what would happen to the games I’m making on my desktop? (sorry, I’m kinda new to all this)
July 20th, 2010 at 10:36 pm
@Jesusfreak
dont worry you do not need to download GM8 again and the games are perfectly fine.
July 22nd, 2010 at 9:40 pm
Just so you know, all Chrome users can use FF plugins, so we can get InstantPlay.
July 23rd, 2010 at 10:07 pm
I was wondering why it wasn’t working! Thanks for fixing.