On Nov 21, 2012, at 9:55 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
If you command-click on the flash plugin and select Show Package
Contents, and go into the Contents folder you'll see two files,
version.plist and info.plist. You need those to be altered to show
correct 11.5 version numbers; This is from the version plist file:
<string>Adobe Flash Player 11.4 r402 Copyright (c) 1996 Adobe
Systems Incorporated. All rights reserved</string>
<key>CFBundleShortVersionString</key>
<string>11.4.402.287</string>
<key>CFBundleSignature</key>
<string>MOSS</string>
<key>CFBundleVersion</key>
<string>11.4.402.287</string>
Etc. You need to replace this with a valid version number for 11.5,
whouch would entail looking at the corresponding files in a real
11.5 plugin.
They're just text files, and can be edited in any text editor. If
you have the developer tools installed you can use the plist editor,
as well.
I'm using the hacked version which is the final PPC version that was
advanced to an artificial version 11.1.102.55.
I tried changing just the version.plist & info.plist to 11.5.502.124
and this didn't work, it still identified in Adobe's "About Flash" as
11.1.102.55, and wouldn't work with sites that require 11.5. Then I
dug deeper, and there were further .plist files buried in there that I
also changed. These deeper .plist changes resulted in the plugin
identifying in OS X at 11.5.502.124 but not in "About Flash" or any
11.5-only websites.
So I dug deeper, using HexEdit to open all the files and search for
"55" the final two digits of the hacked version #. Since the real
version wasn't this hacked version, I figured any reference to the
hacked "11.1.102.55" would also need to be changed. There were many
"11.1.102.55" references within several files. All were changed, and
the result was that "About Flash" showed "nothing" and no video would
play at all. I suspect the problem may have been the "124" of my new
version is three digits long compared to the "55" of the other
version? There doesn't appear to be any checksum within the flash
plugin, so I'm thinking I'll try again and see if I can get something
working with an 11.5 version #.
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