The common case scenario is that you will go to take your mugshot and be presented with a dialog box requesting permission to access your webcam. When you go to click "Allow" nothing happens. In fact, the dialog box is completely frozen and clicking anywhere in the box will do nothing. Now you are banging your head on the table wondering why Mozilla would ask you questions if they don't want to hear the answer!Well there happens to be a solution. It turns out that flash permissions are global to your system. That means that if you tell flash to always allow permission to www.dailymugshot.com, it will, regardless of what browser you are using. So here's what to do:
1. Open your favorite non-Firfox browser (Chrome, Safari, etc.)
2. Go to www.dailymugshot.com/new_pic
3. Right click (or ctrl-click) on the dialog box and select "settings".
4. Make sure that the settings are set to "Allow" and "Remember"
5. Reload www.dailymugshot.com/new_pic in Firefox and everything should work!
You should now no longer be seeing the prompt for allowing flash settings. If flash is still unable to access your camera please try this post: http://blog.dailymugshot.com/2010/12/finally-workaround.html
2 comments:
still doesn't work. i'm on a mac with firefox. stopped working after i upgraded to latest version of flash. any ideas? firefox = 3.16.3
Hi Troy,
There is a known bug in the latest release of Flash. Please try this: http://blog.dailymugshot.com/2010/12/finally-workaround.html
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