Re: Firefox and flash plugin

[Fred Smith]

On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 09:03:47AM -0700, Konstantin Svist wrote:
> I keep hitting this issue, too..
>    The problem happens when you dnf update flash-plugin while firefox is
>    running. Firefox writes its cache of plugin info, pluginreg.dat, on
>    quit -- but it uses the in-memory info to do that. In the case above,
>    the old version number is written to the cache file.
>    To fix the problem, remove your pluginreg.dat file from
>    ~/.mozilla/firefox/PROFILE.DIR/  (PROFILE.DIR is different on each
>    system)

that sounds like  the issue Ive been having for more-or-less ever.
My "solution" has been to download the new plugin RPM, exit firefox,
yum install the plugin then restart firefox. Nothing else I've tried
has worked, but I didn't know to try what you suggest.

Fred
> HTH
>    On 03/28/2017 07:52 AM, Terry Polzin wrote:
>
> No, further research shows me it's Firefox and its' API
>
> On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 10:33 AM, Robert Moskowitz
>    <[1][e-mail]> wrote:
>
> On 03/28/2017 09:07 AM, Terry Polzin wrote:
>  Firefox is complaining about flash not being up to date.  I believe
>  i have the latest of both.
>  dnf list installed | grep -e firefox -e flash-plugin
>  firefox.x86_64 52.0-6.fc25                   @updates
>  flash-plugin.x86_64 25.0.0.127-release
>  @adobe-linux-x86_64
>
>  If you updated and not restarted Firefox, it will complain.  You
>  have to restart Firefox after each new flash-plugin update.
>  I *hate* that...
>
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