on software updates

[Michael Cronenworth]

On 02/05/2015 08:25 AM, Tom Hughes wrote:
> The problem is that you also have to delete pluginreg.dat from the firefox
> profile directory, or firefox will continue to think you have the old flash
> installed even after you restart it.
>
> It's basically because the plugin is being updated by yum behind firefox's back
> - if it went through the normal plugin update scheme inside firefox then
> pluginreg.dat would be updated.

Deleting files out of your Firefox profile is not necessary.

(I think this thread has fully derailed - are we done here?)