Re: Is the flash plugin no longer getting security updates?

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On Tue, Apr 05, 2016 at 02:44:46PM -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 05, 2016 at 01:39:18PM -0500, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
> > Actually, I see this warning all the time also, especially when
> > youtube video is embedded. The video does play on youtube.com
> > however,
> > 
> > $ rpm -qa flash-plugin
> > flash-plugin-11.2.202.577-release.x86_64
> 
> Did you update using yum/dnf while Firefox was running? If so, you're
> probably hitting this:
> 
> http://unix.stackexchange.com/q/174210/2511
> 
> Short version:
>  
>   1. exit firefox
>   2. rm ~/.mozilla/firefox/*/pluginreg.dat
>   3. start firefox again

I was unaware of that workaround. What I've always done is download
the RPM, exit firefox, install the RPM, restart firefox. Voila!

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