[arch-general] Firefox showing flashplugin as outdated although it's not

[Laurent Carlier]

Le dimanche 14 décembre 2014, 20:02:04 Marcos Sánchez a écrit :
> 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 "Firefox has prevented the outdated plugin "Adobe Flash" from running on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 I'm running a fully updated os and the package doesn't seem outdated, so I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.

You need to remove pluginreg.dat file

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1109795#c16

-- 
Laurent Carlier
http://www.archlinux.org
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