Flash must be installed and enabled on your browser

Is Flash installed? Probably not, if you saw "Adobe Flash must be enabled Click here for help" in a biocyc popup and selected the link to arrive here. However, as an independent check navigate to: http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/about/. The page should have an initial animation at the top of a red bouncing cube with the Adobe Flash logo on it. If you don't see this, you absolutely need to install and/or enable flash.

Chrome

Chrome supports flash natively, so there's nothing to install. However, you have to have the browser configured properly.

• Navigate to chrome://settings/content
• Find the entry for "Flash" and select it. It will have three or four entries:
  • Block sites from running Flash [or Allow sited to run Flash]
  • Ask first
  • Block
  • Allow
• If "Ask first" is turned on, it will break our use of it to display Omics data in popups using Charts, so it must be turned off (at least when accessing out site).
• If you want to "Block ..." by default, you need to add the following to "Allow":
  • biocyc.org,
  • ecocyc.org,
  • metacyc.org,
  • bsubcyc.org,
  • humancyc.org,
  • and any other sites you use run by other organizations using our software.
• Otherwise, you simly "Allow sites to run Flash" by flipping the switch next to "Block sites from running ...", HOWEVER, the "Ask first" must be turned off regardless.

Firefox

Flash is a Plug-In for Firefox. You'll need to install and enable it according to the instruction for you platform. Once installed, go to the Add-ons Manager, and ensure that Shockwave Flash is one of the Plug-Ins and that it is in "Always Activate" mode (that is, its enabled). Firefox, at this point, only enable you to turn Flash on or off; that is, Firefox doesn't have the granularity of control over Flash usage provided by Chrome at this point.