Re: iceweasel and libflashplayer
On Sat, 19 Apr 2008 07:04:33 -0400, Paul Cartwright wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 11:12:33AM +0200, Richard Lyons wrote:
>
> > On an etch box, I recently hit a website that insisted I should upgrade
> > to flashplayer 9. No sweat, I did. Now I notice BBC and other sites
> > keep telling me I need to upgrade flashplayer. about:plugins says I
> > have flashplayer 7 and flashplayer 9. In that order. I suppose this to
> > be the problem, though I know no way to remove flashplayer 7 from
> > firefox, sorry, iceweasel. locate shows only one libflashplayer.so on
> > my system, that in /usr/lib/iceweasel/plugins/ (I am ignoring the copy
> > in my download directory, which must be irrelevant). I have grepped
> > around in iceweasel trying to find a config file with the defunct
> > pointer to no avail.
> fire up iseweasel and in the URL field type:
> about:config
> then in the filter type flashplayer..
How strange. It shows nothing at all.
Should it show the flashplayer installed (by the Adobe install script)?
Why does about:plugins show it, and why does it show the previous
version too? It looks as though there are search functions to find the
installed plugins: how does the list of installed plugins get
generated? Why do these big applications hide so much of their working?
richard
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