On 10.02.2015 21:13, Stephen Morris wrote: > On 02/10/2015 08:09 PM, poma wrote: >> On 10.02.2015 09:44, Stephen Morris wrote: >>> On 02/10/2015 11:42 AM, poma wrote: >>>> On 09.02.2015 22:28, Fred Smith wrote: >>>>> On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 08:26:42AM +1100, Stephen Morris wrote: >>>>>> On 02/04/2015 05:12 PM, Ahmad Samir wrote: >>>>>>> On 3 February 2015 at 23:44, Robert Moskowitz <rgm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>>>>>> www.cnn.com is telling me that my version of flash-player is out of date >>>>>>>> with security risks so it won't display any video news. Go and update your >>>>>>>> flash player. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> On this F21 system I am using: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> adobe-linux-x86_64.repo >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> which has in it: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> baseurl=http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/linux/x86_64/ >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> yum.log shows: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Jan 19 18:08:31 Updated: flash-plugin-11.2.202.429-release.x86_64 >>>>>>>> Jan 26 08:51:24 Updated: flash-plugin-11.2.202.440-release.x86_64 >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> So supposedly I am current to Jan 26. But cnn is not a happy camper. There >>>>>>>> have been a couple other sites complaining as well. Even one that said my >>>>>>>> version of Firefox was out of date, but that was only a warning. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>> Go to about:plugins in Firefox, if the displayed version of Adobe >>>>>>> Flash isn't *.440, try deleting >>>>>>> ~/.mozilla/firefox/PROFILE_NAME/pluginreg.dat and refresh >>>>>>> about:plugins or restart Firefox. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I've hit a similar issue recently on a different website. >>>>>>> >>>>>> I just installed the 64 bit rpm for version 442 of flash I >>>>>> downloaded from Adobe's website, put a symlink into >>>>>> /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins (the upstream version of 64 bit firefox >>>>>> looks for its plugins in /usr/lib) to where the rpm placed the >>>>>> plugin, remove pluginreg.dat, started firefox and issued >>>>>> about:plugins which firefox says it is picking up from >>>>>> /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins but it says the version is 11.2.202.310 >>>>>> still, why is this occurring? >>>>> >>>>> Seems likely that SOMEWHERE there is still a copy of the old version >>>>> that FF is finding instead of the one you want. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> $ grep -A1 /libflashplayer.so pluginreg.dat >>>> >>> I've just booted linux after getting home from work, started firefox and >>> checked the plugins and firefox is now showing the right version, seems >>> that I had to reboot linux for the rpm installation and the symlinks to >>> take effect. On reflection maybe the ldconfig cache was causing issues >>> as this would have been refreshed with the reboot. >>> >> :) >> >> # yum install http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/adobe-release/adobe-release-x86_64-1.0-1.noarch.rpm >> # yum install flash-plugin > I already have this repository configured and had installed the 440 > version quite some time ago (it seems we need to specify the exact > version as this repository seems to have the 64 bit and 32 bit Nope. 32 bit == http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/adobe-release/adobe-release-i386-1.0-1.noarch.rpm > versions), but firefox had always said the installed plugin was 310. > Indications are the pluginreg.dat was potentially causing this, so it > seems that under Fedora that file must be removed every time the plugin > version is changed. Nope. Try == https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-clear-firefox-cache -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
