[CentOS] Re: Firefox and Flash

On Tue, 26 Apr 2016 13:54, wwp wrote:

> Hello Andreas,
>
>
> On Tue, 26 Apr 2016 09:03:12 +0200 Andreas Benzler wrote:
>
>> Hello every one I installed the official
>> flash plugin from adobe
>>
>> About Plugins tells me:
>>
>>     Datei: libflashplayer.so
>>     Pfad: /usr/lib64/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so
>>     Version: 11.2.202.577
>>     Status: Aktiviert (STATE_VULNERABLE_UPDATE_AVAILABLE)
>>     Shockwave Flash 11.2 r202
>>
>> But it is:
>>
>>  strings /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so  | grep 616
>> FlashPlayer_11_2_202_616_FlashPlayer
>> LNX 11,2,202,616
>> 11.2.202.616
>> drm/%s/%s/%s/11.2.202.616%s
>>
>> Any ideas?
>
> On my 3 CentOS 6.5 systems here (all up-to-date), only one shows '577'
> whereas 616 is installed and the 577 binary has gone. Strange, I still
> didn't get how to "fix" this, even if doesn't sound overcritical to me.

Cause is the file "pluginreg.dat" in the Firefox profile folder.
It stores the version info, but upon updates of the flashplayer,
some times it will not get updated.
Two ways to 'cure' that:

a) Uninstall flash, (Re-)start Firefox,
    close Firefox, install new version, start Firefox.
    (Due to the 'absence' of flash, the 'pluginreg.dat' gets removed, and
    afterwards it will get recreated with the new info)

b) Close firefox, remove 'pluginreg.dat', update flashplayer, start firefox

  - Yamaban