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From: Grant <emailgrant@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Flash stopped working after Firefox 3.6.3->3.6.4 update.
Date: Fri, 02 Jul 2010 04:06:18
Message-Id: AANLkTimLsdlaET_J4uFyitJxxjXd2Z2M42DWDiTx9GXV@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: Flash stopped working after Firefox 3.6.3->3.6.4 update. by Grant Edwards
1 >>>> Firefox got upgraded from 3.6.3 to 3.6.4 yesterday, and now the flash
2 >>>> plugin won't work. ?I tried both "x86" and "~x86" versions, and both
3 >>>> crash 100% of the time.
4 >>>
5 >>> The problem was caused by an old 9.x copy of the plugin that was left
6 >>> in ~/.mozialla/plugins. ?After deleting the flashplayer plugin from
7 >>> that directory, FF then found the "officially" installed 10.x version
8 >>> and is now happy.
9 >>
10 >> I'm having the exact same problem, except I don't have a
11 >> ~/.mozilla/plugins directory at all.  Any ideas?
12 >
13 > Search for libflashplayer.so files.
14 >
15 > Another of my machines had an old one in /usr/lib/nsbrowser/plugins.
16 > That should have been a symlink to /opt/netscape/plugins/libflashplayer.so
17 > which is where the ebuild puts the file.
18
19 I did have an extra libflashplayer.so, I deleted it, I deleted
20 pluginreg.dat, I re-emerged adobe-flash, and I restarted firefox, but
21 flash still isn't working. It works in opera. Any ideas?
22
23 - Grant

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