strange firefox issue

[Paolo Galtieri]

This did the trick.  Why I can't remove plugins via the tools menu, but 
can remove add-ons, seems wrong.

Thanks,
Paolo

On 10/01/2015 02:18 PM, Alchemist wrote:
>
>
> 2015-10-02 0:09 GMT+03:00 Paolo Galtieri <pgaltieri at gmail.com 
> <mailto:pgaltieri at gmail.com>>:
>
>     Folks,
>       I have 2 systems running FC22.  Both are at the latest updates.
>     On one system firefox shows I have flash version 11.2.202.521
>     installed.  This is the latest version available from Adobe.  On
>     the other system firefox tells me I have an out of date version of
>     flash 11.2.202.508. This is, however, wrong.  I have 11.2.202.521
>     installed. I have verified this by downloading the latest flash
>     tar file from Adobe and doing an md5sum on the one from the tar
>     file and the one installed in
>     /usr/lib64/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so. They both have the same
>     checksum.  The link in ~/.mozilla/plugins points to
>     /usr/lib64/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so so the correct version
>     should be pulled in.  I tried removing the link in the
>     ~/.mozilla/plugins directory and re-starting firefox, but it still
>     shows I have 11.2.202.508 installed.  Even after I restore the
>     link and restart firefox it still shows I have 508 installed.
>
>     How do I get firefox to pickup the correct version of flash?
>
>     Any help is appreciated.
>
>
>
> Close Firefox, edit ~/.mozilla/firefox/profiledir*/pluginreg.dat
>
> Remove all content in [PLUGINS] section, starting from 
> "libflashplayer.so" to "FutureSplash Player"
>
> Start Firefox.
>
>
>     Paolo
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