On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 08:26:42AM +1100, Stephen Morris wrote:
> On 02/04/2015 05:12 PM, Ahmad Samir wrote:
>> On 3 February 2015 at 23:44, Robert Moskowitz <rgm(a)htt-consult.com> wrote:
>>>
www.cnn.com is telling me that my version of flash-player is out of date
>>> with security risks so it won't display any video news. Go and update
your
>>> flash player.
>>>
>>> On this F21 system I am using:
>>>
>>> adobe-linux-x86_64.repo
>>>
>>> which has in it:
>>>
>>>
baseurl=http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/linux/x86_64/
>>>
>>> yum.log shows:
>>>
>>> Jan 19 18:08:31 Updated: flash-plugin-11.2.202.429-release.x86_64
>>> Jan 26 08:51:24 Updated: flash-plugin-11.2.202.440-release.x86_64
>>>
>>> So supposedly I am current to Jan 26. But cnn is not a happy camper. There
>>> have been a couple other sites complaining as well. Even one that said my
>>> version of Firefox was out of date, but that was only a warning.
>>>
>>>
>> Go to about:plugins in Firefox, if the displayed version of Adobe
>> Flash isn't *.440, try deleting
>> ~/.mozilla/firefox/PROFILE_NAME/pluginreg.dat and refresh
>> about:plugins or restart Firefox.
>>
>> I've hit a similar issue recently on a different website.
>>
> I just installed the 64 bit rpm for version 442 of flash I
> downloaded from Adobe's website, put a symlink into
> /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins (the upstream version of 64 bit firefox
> looks for its plugins in /usr/lib) to where the rpm placed the
> plugin, remove pluginreg.dat, started firefox and issued
> about:plugins which firefox says it is picking up from
> /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins but it says the version is 11.2.202.310
> still, why is this occurring?
Seems likely that SOMEWHERE there is still a copy of the old version
that FF is finding instead of the one you want.