Word Mojo on Shockwave.com not working
My wife has been playing Word Mojo on shockwave.com for years. It just stopped working. Once before it stopped working on Chrome, probably because of Java vulnerabilities due to using Flash. So I moved it to Firefox and got it working there. She doesn't care what browser she has to use; just loves the game. When we got back from a short vacation it had stopped working again. I updated to the newest Java I could find, but NO GO. Any help appreciated and points awarded. She needs the game because she's going in for surgery and may be stuck in the house for a while and this will help while away the hours.
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Can see the ads, but game will still not play. Firefox seems to lock up after the ad and loading message. Not able to scroll or anything. Did notice that there were 2 iterations of flash running; different sizes. When I used task manager to close either one, they both closed. Something still wrong. Suggestions?
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Nothing new on the system, but when we returned from vacation there was a dialog box indicating the Webroot, which I use on all the computers for anti-malware had expired. I intended to renew it, but hadn't yet. When I looked to see (per your hint) about security software) what might be running that might interfere with the app running, I removed Webroot just to see if that would change things. As soon as I removed it completely, the game started running correctly. My wife and I thank you profusely for your help and the points are gladly awarded to you.
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Good job!!!!!!
You're welcome.
BTW Adobe have just announced a vulnerability in the latest FlashPlayer which means yet another update being released next week!
BTW Adobe have just announced a vulnerability in the latest FlashPlayer which means yet another update being released next week!
But for Firefox (v39.0):
Install: Flash Player Version 18.0.0.203
Install:Java Version 8 Update 45
Uninstall previous Java versions
http://www.java.com/en/download/uninstallapplet.jsp
Allow Shockwave site as an security exception
(playing games on not https pages)*
Close browsers
Windows Start button
Control panel
Java (32-bit)
Security Tab
Edit Site List
Add
Add www.shockwave.com to exception list
Add
Continue at Security Warning pop-up
OK addition
OK Control Panel to close
Restart Firefox
Open
http://www.shockwave.com/gamelanding/wordmojo.jsp
Agree to run Java applet
*Shockwave are updating next week to improve this
Hope all goes well with the surgery!!