phoenigerx.blogg.se - Unable to install silverlight on mac

Microsoft mainly created it to rival with Adobe’s Flash, however it never got as popular. IT is suggested to avoid installing it and wait until you need it. It takes up a lot of space on your hard drive. Silverlight is probably unnecessary for you if you don’t use websites which use it. Most people install it as Microsoft keeps pushing it to you with new updates and other sources. Only a very few websites use Silverlight, with the most popular being Netflix. It is not used very often on the web as Flash is the standard. Microsoft Silverlight is windows counterpart of Adobe Flash Player the dominant standard for multimedia Web applications. Cannot get ONLINE, WI-FI keeps diconnecting, slow INTERNET.I get bombarded with POP-UPS and my home page has changed.Printer, keyboard or mouse DOESN'T WORK.Laptop HARD DRIVE REPLACEMENT, SSD upgrades.In Safari, the test seems to render okay but then I get an error from Safari itself: "A problem occured with this webpage so it was reloaded", leading to the page being reloaded automatically until Safari gives up and tells me that an error repeatedly occured with the page.

However, the test linked above merely offers an "Install Microsoft Silverlight" icon.

In Chrome: I had to use the "Get more extensions" option inside of Chrome to install.

FYI, the plugin is set on "Always activate" in about:addons and disabling AdBlock did not help.

In Firefox: the official "Get Silverlight" page tells me the plugin is installed ("Silverlight 5 (4.0)"), however the test page linked above renders black.

To install, I'm merely using the Silverlight.dmg file and its installer to install. I've tried uninstalling and re-installing Silverlight but without success. I had Silverlight version 4 installed before but never got it to work (I don't know if this was before or after my Yosemite update.) (As opposed to a big black square of nothing.) 2) Troubleshooting This should offer a menu and various content, mostly pictures. To start with, can anyone tell me if this Silverlight test works for them on Mac OS X Yosemite (10.10.1) ?

I'm not getting much success at all so far, nor help from the Web. I'm trying to get Silverlight to work on Mac OS X, any browser would do.