[arch-general] Firefox showing flashplugin as outdated although it's not

[Javier Vasquez]

On Sun, Dec 14, 2014 at 5:12 PM, Karol Blazewicz
<karol.blazewicz at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 12:02 AM, Marcos Sánchez
> <marcosdsanchez at gmail.com> wrote:
>> For the last few days, firefox started showing the following message when
>> trying to run flash content:
>
>> Have any of you experienced a similar issue?
>
> See https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=190972


Well, the same happened with the mono plugin moonlight.  It was
unmaintained and left by deverlopers, and the solution before one
decided to drop it was to reintall the plugin after firefox has done
its check on updates.  That had to be done every time firefox got
updated.

By definition flashplugin is stuck in an old outdated version (which
is perhaps what firefox complains about):

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/browser_plugins#Adobe_Flash_Player
https://blogs.adobe.com/flashplayer/2012/02/adobe-and-google-partnering-for-flash-player-on-linux.html

As such, and there are many things depending on flash still, one
alternative is freshplayerplugin-git (from AUR) combined with
chromium-pepper-flash (from AUR), and firefox has no problems with
them.  Notice freshplayerplugin is also available, but seemed
orphaned:

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/chromium-pepper-flash
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/freshplayerplugin
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/freshplayerplugin-git

-- 
Javier.