[CentOS] Firefox and Flash

Tue Apr 26 19:08:52 UTC 2016
Bill Maltby (C4B) <centos4bill at gmail.com>

On Tue, 2016-04-26 at 19:04 +0200, Yamaban wrote:
> 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?
> >
> ><snip>

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

This is what I've done for years when issues arise. Before doing so
however,

cp -a pluginreg.dat pluginregdat.dat.YYMMDD

Just in case something is scrogged.

> 
>   - Yamaban
> <snip>

Bill