On 01/30/2015 07:00 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2015-01-30 13:42, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* Carlos E. R. <> [01-30-15 07:33]: Firefox has a problem dealing with removal of user installed plugins and has for some years. There is ongoing work/discussion in their bug reports about it. But it is not user installed, it is system installed.
I see no "flash*" file installed in the ~/mozilla/* tree.
However, I started FF as another user, and this one gets version 440. So the system library is correct, my user is getting it wrong somehow. Or rather FF is being stupid and getting the right file and incorrect info.
That said, I would try removing the current plugin, restarting firefox and reinstalling the "correct" plugin. I doubt that reinstalling the rpm will do anything, as another user sees the correct version.
ps: might open the rpm and check the version reported as filename might be incorrect. I looked inside the text strings of the binary library... correct.
The bottom line is that flash for Linux is no longer supported beyond what you already have installed. It's a pain in the asphalt but you will just have to muddle through with what's available. I watched a flash video just a few minutes ago and I had to tell Firefox to use what it already had. It just doesn't seem to remember from start to the next start that you want it to use what flash plugin it has installed. There is no fix. There will be no fix. [ unless someone can crack flash and write a whole new plugin from scratch. ] At some point you may never be able to watch a flash video again in Linux. We will just have to learn to live without it. -- “Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century.” - Joan Rivers _ _... ..._ _ _._ ._ ..... ._.. ... .._ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org