Re: [gentoo-user] flash plugin in seamonkey, user problem

[Raffaele BELARDI]

Dale wrote:

> Raffaele BELARDI wrote:
>> I have three users on my ~amd64 gentoo including myself. The two other
>> users have identical and very limited rights. For me and one user flash
>> in seamonkey works fine, for the other user it is blocked by seamonkey
>> being 'insecure', although the seamonkey binary and the flash plugin
>> (www-plugins/adobe-flash-11.2.202.637) are installed system-wide.
>>
>> I don't understand why the different behaviour, any suggestions?
>>
>
> Notice how I have two
> versions of adobe-flash installed?  I don't think that is normal.  I
> manually -C the older version and now youtube and such works fine.  It
> now looks like this:
>
> You may want to see if two versions are installed at the same time.  It
> appears that if it is, it tries to use the older version. Don't ask me
> how two versions can be installed at the same time tho.  I dunno.  I
> don't think it is supposed to do that for this package tho.  The command
> I used is this:
>


I understood that the -11 is required for some (NPAPI whateverthatis) 

browsers including Firefox[1]. Actually I recently tried to remove -11 

from another system and mythbrowser stopped displaying flash. Anyway, I 

will try the suggestion with the seamonkey browser.



raffaele



[1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Adobe_Flash