[arch-general] Firefox showing flashplugin as outdated although it's not

[Marcos Sánchez]

On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 5:21 AM, Laurent Carlier <lordheavym at gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> 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 "Firefox has prevented the outdated plugin "Adobe Flash" from running on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 I'm running a fully updated os and the package doesn't seem outdated, so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
>

I confirm that removing this file works.

Thanks guys.



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



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# Marcos