FarmVille does not need Java... I have mine disabled in control panel applet and it never asks me to run it or that its needed and my farm works fine without it being ran at all when visit a site that needs Java I get the square in a box showing the program didnt have it and ask if I wanna use this one time or always allow site to use it but that dont hapen ever in FarmVille...
with google chrome you get pepper flash not Adobe.. pepper flash is made by Google (comes inside of Google Chrome)
Adobes flash 'refered to still for some reason as shockwave flash... really tho.... shockwave is not flash
and flash is not shockwave they are different programs both are made by Adobe' and you can download
both at adobes site and yet some reason their error messages refer to it as shockwave flash has crashed
so many are confused and trying to install new shockwave without any luck and others are tryin to instal
Java as suggested above and wondering why doesnt farmville work...well both was wasted time doing for
farmville anyway...may want to install shockwave for other things as well as java but not needed for FV...
Adobe used to be called Macromedia and then they started refering to flash as "Shockwave" in fact still think
they have a site called shockwave.com and had shockwave games and not real sure the differences in them.
but its really Adobe Flash *OR* Adobe Shockwave...their isnt really no Shockwave Flash honestly!
you dont need shockwave to play farmville and you dont need java to play either...Just Flash
Bizcax you mentioned Firefox and google chrome,,,,I have tried both and prefer Chrome myself
but to each their own...but when you have both you have downloaded Adobe Flash and possibly
an activeX flash version as well *just works for microsoft active X in Internet explorer/compatible*
so you had 1 or 2 versions and then when you get Google Chrome it has the pepper flash version in it
and it also can find the Adobe version of Flash if you have one installed *you must have if did game*
but when you install more versions of flash chrome allows you to be able to use them if you so desire in it...
say for game developers to test how their game would play to others on different types or versions of flash
in the address bar in google chrome you add
chrome://plugins/
hit enter and it takes you to a page and shows plugins used by chrome this is where you can see what plugins are installed and whats enabled/disabled....look for the flash section mine has it called Adobe Flash Player but maybe called just Flash if older GC
for flash to work right without conflicts ideally you want to disable all but one type of flash under the flash section inside chrome make sure just the highest version number is enabled and disable the other version(s) currently its like version 11.5
generally speakin newer is supposedly better than older..