Re: Firefox and flash-plugin on F20

[Ahmad Samir]

On 7 July 2015 at 16:42, Kevin Cummings <cummings(a)kjchome.homeip.net&gt; wrote:
>  I have a strange happening.
>
>  On my F19.x86_64 home server, I have both firefox-34.0-1.fc19.x86_64 and
>  the latest Adobe flash-plugin-11.2.202.468-release.x86_64 installed.
>  About:plugins shows that it is the correct plugin, and all seems to work
>  as expected.
>
>  On my F20.x86_64 laptop, again, I have both firefox-38.0.5-1.fc20.x86_64
>  and the latest Adobe flash-plugin-11.2.202.468-release.x86_64 installed.
>   About:plugins however shows that version 11.2.202.466 is the current
>  installed version of the flash plugin being used by firefox.
>  A quick look at my systems shows that there are only 2 libflashplayer.so
>  files:
>
>  /usr/lib64/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so
>  /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
>
>  And a quick check of both of them shows:
>
>  strings /usr/lib64/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so | grep 11.2.202
>  FlashPlayer_11_2_202_468_FlashPlayer
>  LNX 11,2,202,468
>  11.2.202.468
>  drm/%s/%s/%s/11.2.202.468%s
>
>  So, if the file in the location that firefox about:plugins shows that it
>  is 11.2.202.468, then why does firefox say it is:
>
>  Shockwave Flash
>
>      File: libflashplayer.so
>      Path: /usr/lib64/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so
>      Version: 11.2.202.466
>      State: Enabled (STATE_VULNERABLE_UPDATE_AVAILABLE)
>      Shockwave Flash 11.2 r202
>
>  This is weird!
>  
The flash-plugin package was updated while Firefox was running, that
sometimes make things go south.

To fix the issue, quit Firefox then delete
~/.mozilla/firefox/<PROFILE>/pluginreg.dat, it'll be recreated when
firefox is started the next time with the correct info about the
plugin(s).

-- 
Ahmad Samir