Re: adobe flash player in iceweasel does not work anymore in jessie

[Paul van der Vlis <paul@vandervlis.nl>]

Op 10-09-15 om 23:57 schreef Lisi Reisz:
> On Thursday 10 September 2015 13:37:03 Brian wrote:
>>> Nonetheless, flashplayer-mozilla works on my desktop and
>>> flashplugin-nonfree doesn't.  FOR THIS SPECIFIC CHANNEL.
>>
>> Intriguing. Are the HAL packages installed?
> 
> All the ones you mention plus hal-trinity.   But so has my husband's computer.  
> He has only the one libflashplayer.so, the mozilla one.
> 
> I, on the other hand, have three:
> /home/lisi/.mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
> /usr/lib/flashplayer-mozilla/libflashplayer.so
> /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
> 
> Plus two actually on my computer in some old files belonging to a client.

The correct place is:
/usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/libflashplayer.so
It's important to remove the other ones.

> Reported in iceweasel thus:
>  <quote>  
>  File: libflashplayer.so,libflashplayer.so,libflashplayer.so
>   
> Path: /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so,/usr/lib/flashplayer-mozilla/libflashplayer.so,/home/lisi/.mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
>     Version: 11.2.202.350
>     State: Enabled (STATE_VULNERABLE_UPDATE_AVAILABLE)
>     Shockwave Flash 11.2 r202
> </quote>
> And then a table.
> 
> My husband has:
> <quote>
> File: libflashplayer.so
> Path: /usr/lib/flashplayer-mozilla/libflashplayer.so
> Version: 11.2.202.508
> State: Enabled
> Shockwave Flash 11.2 r202
> </quote>

Your husband has the correct version for Iceweasel. You are using an old
version.

But it's better to use Chromium, it has version 18.0.0.209.

With regards,
Paul van der Vlis.



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