Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1188 mails)

[Carl Hartung <opensuse@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 9 Jan 2012 22:58:22 -0600
sc <toothpik@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > Sorry if this seems like a lot but there are a lot of
> > unanswered questions, still:
>
> > What does "about:plugins" in Firefox show is enabled for
> > 'Shockwave Flash' content?
>
> about:plugins shows a big message that reads "No enabled plugins
> found"
>
> when i click the mozilla.org link to learn more about plugins
> there's a message there that firefox, for my safety, has
> disabled my outdated version of Flash and provides a link to the
> same adobe download page i've already downloaded from 10 or so
> times
>
> > What files are in /usr/lib{64}/browser-plugins/?
>
> /usr/lib/browser-plugins has nppdf.so
>
> /usr/lib64/browser-plugins has
>
>     javaplugin.so
>     libflashplayer.so
>     libgnashplugin.so
>     npwrapper.nppdf.so
>     npwrapper.so
>     packagekit-plugin.so
>     skypebuttons.so
>
> which is probably the important one because this is a 64-bit box
>
> the owner and group of libflashplayer.so is root/root, with
> read/write/execute for owner and read/execute for everyone else
>
> > What is the result of 'rpm -qa | grep flash'?
>
> flash-player-11.1.102.55-0.6.1.x86_64
>
> > What was the 'special version' you installed? Where did you
> > get it and how, exactly, did you install it?
>
> i truly wish i remembered -- it was something i learned on this
> list so maybe i can find it...

I think I may have spotted a problem, but to clarify things a bit,
please close Firefox completely (Firefox -> File -> Quit will close all
open Firefox windows,) navigate to your ~/.mozilla/firefox/??.default
directory and delete the file "pluginreg.dat". Then re-launch Firefox
and check 'about:plugins' again and report any changes.
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