[arch-general] Firefox showing flashplugin as outdated although it's not

[Scott Lawrence]

I've had exactly this issue; however, when I click on 'update plugin' within 
firefox, it declares the plugin up-to-date (giving the correct version).

On Sun, 14 Dec 2014, Marcos Sánchez wrote:

> For the last few days, firefox started showing the following message when
> trying to run flash content:
>
> "Firefox has prevented the outdated plugin "Adobe Flash" from running on
> ..."
>
> I'm running a fully updated os and the package doesn't seem outdated, so I
> think it's a problem with firefox reading the flash plugin version wrong.
>
> Packages:
>
> ➜  pacman -Q flashplugin firefox
> flashplugin 11.2.202.425-1
> firefox 34.0.5-1
>
> About:plugins information
> Shockwave FlashFile: libflashplayer.soPath:
> /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.soVersion: 11.2.202.424State: Enabled
> (STATE_VULNERABLE_UPDATE_AVAILABLE)Shockwave Flash 11.2 r202MIME Type
> DescriptionSuffixesapplication/x-shockwave-flashShockwave Flashswf
> application/futuresplashFutureSplash Playerspl
>
> Have any of you experienced a similar issue?
>
> Thanks.
>
> -- 
> # Marcos
>

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Scott Lawrence

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