Firefox and flash-plugin on F20

Kevin Cummings cummings at kjchome.homeip.net
Tue Jul 7 14:57:23 UTC 2015


On 07/07/15 10:53, Ahmad Samir wrote:
> On 7 July 2015 at 16:42, Kevin Cummings <cummings at 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 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).

Indeed, that fixed it.  Thanks.  I was starting to pull what's left of
my hair out!

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Kevin J. Cummings
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