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!
On 7 July 2015 at 16:42, Kevin Cummings cummings@kjchome.homeip.net 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 r202This 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).
On 07/07/15 10:53, Ahmad Samir wrote:
On 7 July 2015 at 16:42, Kevin Cummings cummings@kjchome.homeip.net 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 r202This 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).
Indeed, that fixed it. Thanks. I was starting to pull what's left of my hair out!
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Kevin Cummings