strange firefox issue

[Alchemist]

2015-10-02 0:09 GMT+03:00 Paolo Galtieri <pgaltieri at gmail.com>:

> Folks,
>   I have 2 systems running FC22.  Both are at the latest updates. On one
> system firefox shows I have flash version 11.2.202.521 installed.  This is
> the latest version available from Adobe.  On the other system firefox tells
> me I have an out of date version of flash 11.2.202.508.  This is, however,
> wrong.  I have 11.2.202.521 installed.  I have verified this by downloading
> the latest flash tar file from Adobe and doing an md5sum on the one from
> the tar file and the one installed in
> /usr/lib64/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so. They both have the same
> checksum.  The link in ~/.mozilla/plugins points to
> /usr/lib64/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so so the correct version should be
> pulled in.  I tried removing the link in the ~/.mozilla/plugins directory
> and re-starting firefox, but it still shows I have 11.2.202.508 installed.
> Even after I restore the link and restart firefox it still shows I have 508
> installed.
>
> How do I get firefox to pickup the correct version of flash?
>
> Any help is appreciated.
>


Close Firefox, edit ~/.mozilla/firefox/profiledir*/pluginreg.dat

Remove all content in [PLUGINS] section, starting from "libflashplayer.so"
to "FutureSplash Player"

Start Firefox.


>
> Paolo
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