Browser just downloads .swf instead of playing it

 · Google Chrome. By default, Google Chrome opens a PDF file in the browser window instead of saving it to the downloads folder. To change how Google Chrome treats PDF files in the browser, follow the steps below. Open the Google Chrome browser. Click the icon in the top-right corner of the browser window. Select Settings from the drop-down menu.  · The Best Tech Newsletter Anywhere. Join , subscribers and get a daily digest of news, geek trivia, and our feature articles.  · SWF File Player is a free player for SWF (Shockwave Flash) files that can quickly open SWF files and read metadata tags from the file header. Then, create a link to download the file on the web page using the HTML tag. By compressing the file into a ZIP file and creating a link to it, a web browser cannot directly open the ZIP file.

A special download attribute can be used inside of an tag that will tell the browser to download the file instead of navigating to it. The code below will tell the browser to prompt the user to save the file. The addition of the "download" tag will force a file download dialog box to appear when the link to the file is clicked. Adobe no longer supports Flash Player after Decem and blocked Flash content from running in Flash Player beginning Janu. As a result, SWF files can no longer be played in any major web browser, including Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Edge, Opera and Apple Safari. SWF files won't open in SWF Player either. Moreover, the Internet Archives' Flash software library — besides providing the 3rd-party Ruffle emulator for online in-browser playing of SWF games (as highlighted in the Ghacks article) — also supplies up-front SWF download links. Just right-click save the SWF file for offline playing at one's leisure.

Chrome is downloading bltadwin.ru file instead of opening it. In this past week, many of the desktops at my school have stopped bltadwin.ru files. Many things we use are flash-based, and now instead of opening it, it just tries to download it. It used to open up the game, now it just downloads it. burnout @Guest. last edited by. 21 Nov , @kuna said in Swfs not opening, downloading instead: not even asking, it starts downloading. There's an "ask where to save" checkbox in the settings that should allow you to cancel when it tries to download. It might help with that part. You were trying to download a program called media player, which should come to you as a zip or exe file, and instead of it, you've got a swf. You can bet it's not what you've been expected. In such circumstances, it's really better to cancel your download and try another URL. Swf is a Flash file and can contaim mallicious code.