[Bug 830173] Re: Shockwave Flash outdated version. Can't update it.
** Changed in: firefox Status: Confirmed => Won't Fix -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/830173 Title: Shockwave Flash outdated version. Can't update it. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/830173/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 830173] Re: Shockwave Flash outdated version. Can't update it.
I reported similar problems on bug report 933509. There does seem to be a conflict between the GNU Gnash free GPL'd SWF player and the Adobe Flash player; both seem to want to be the only Flash player on the PC. I had removed, then reinstalled the Adobe player, and kept getting a message saying my Flash was out-of-date. Today, I removed both the Adobe and the GNU Gnash player, and then just reinstalled the Adobe Flash player. Now, Tools Addons Check to see if your plugins are up to date reports that my Flash player IS up to date. I can play Youtube OK. The videos on http://tv.yahoo.com/primetime/ no longer report that Flash is not present on the PC, but it plays in erratic 2-5 second snippets skipping through the various videos available there. Likewise on the ABC.com site. The Adobe flash player installed alone seems to work better than the Gnu Gnash SWF player installed alone. Neither works as well as Adobe Flash on In** Ex** on Wi* XP, though. . -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/830173 Title: Shockwave Flash outdated version. Can't update it. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/830173/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
Re: [Bug 830173] Re: Shockwave Flash outdated version. Can't update it.
The Firefox add-on Flash-Aid 2.2.3 seems to handle my Flash/Ubuntu problems. On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 12:22 PM, Gary D gmd3...@yahoo.com wrote: I reported similar problems on bug report 933509. There does seem to be a conflict between the GNU Gnash free GPL'd SWF player and the Adobe Flash player; both seem to want to be the only Flash player on the PC. I had removed, then reinstalled the Adobe player, and kept getting a message saying my Flash was out-of-date. Today, I removed both the Adobe and the GNU Gnash player, and then just reinstalled the Adobe Flash player. Now, Tools Addons Check to see if your plugins are up to date reports that my Flash player IS up to date. I can play Youtube OK. The videos on http://tv.yahoo.com/primetime/ no longer report that Flash is not present on the PC, but it plays in erratic 2-5 second snippets skipping through the various videos available there. Likewise on the ABC.com site. The Adobe flash player installed alone seems to work better than the Gnu Gnash SWF player installed alone. Neither works as well as Adobe Flash on In** Ex** on Wi* XP, though. . -- You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to the bug report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/830173 Title: Shockwave Flash outdated version. Can't update it. Status in The Mozilla Firefox Browser: Confirmed Status in “firefox” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: From https://www.mozilla.com/en-US/plugincheck/ clicked the update button. Tried to follow the update instructions. Wasn't able to update. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10 Package: firefox 3.6.20+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.10.1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-30.56-generic 2.6.35.13 Uname: Linux 2.6.35-30-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx Architecture: amd64 Date: Sat Aug 20 13:07:29 2011 FirefoxPackages: firefox 3.6.20+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.10.1 firefox-gnome-support 3.6.20+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.10.1 firefox-branding 3.6.20+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.10.1 abroswer N/A abrowser-branding N/A InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat - Release amd64 (20101007) ProcEnviron: LANG=en_US.utf8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: firefox To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/830173/+subscriptions -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/830173 Title: Shockwave Flash outdated version. Can't update it. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/830173/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 830173] Re: Shockwave Flash outdated version. Can't update it.
Flash aid isn't a work around. This issue is caused by having gnash installed and Mozilla's website not recognizing gnash as being up to date. If you want Adobe flash, just install it. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/830173 Title: Shockwave Flash outdated version. Can't update it. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/830173/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
Re: [Bug 830173] Re: Shockwave Flash outdated version. Can't update it.
What Flash-Aid seems to do is 1 remove flash that is in the way and 2 install up to date Adobe. In principle -- as I think you are saying -- Flash-Aid shouldn't be necessary. But for naive users such as myself -- I'm currently trying to use Ubuntu as a tool rather than as a development target -- Flash-Aid currently works without my having to know how. On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 1:54 PM, Micah Gersten launch...@micahscomputing.com wrote: Flash aid isn't a work around. This issue is caused by having gnash installed and Mozilla's website not recognizing gnash as being up to date. If you want Adobe flash, just install it. -- You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to the bug report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/830173 Title: Shockwave Flash outdated version. Can't update it. Status in The Mozilla Firefox Browser: Confirmed Status in “firefox” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: From https://www.mozilla.com/en-US/plugincheck/ clicked the update button. Tried to follow the update instructions. Wasn't able to update. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10 Package: firefox 3.6.20+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.10.1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-30.56-generic 2.6.35.13 Uname: Linux 2.6.35-30-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx Architecture: amd64 Date: Sat Aug 20 13:07:29 2011 FirefoxPackages: firefox 3.6.20+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.10.1 firefox-gnome-support 3.6.20+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.10.1 firefox-branding 3.6.20+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.10.1 abroswer N/A abrowser-branding N/A InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat - Release amd64 (20101007) ProcEnviron: LANG=en_US.utf8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: firefox To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/830173/+subscriptions -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/830173 Title: Shockwave Flash outdated version. Can't update it. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/830173/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 830173] Re: Shockwave Flash outdated version. Can't update it.
Launchpad has imported 13 comments from the remote bug at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=516166. If you reply to an imported comment from within Launchpad, your comment will be sent to the remote bug automatically. Read more about Launchpad's inter-bugtracker facilities at https://help.launchpad.net/InterBugTracking. On 2009-09-12T17:38:24+00:00 Tomasz Chrzczonowicz wrote: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; pl-PL; rv:1.9.1.3) Gecko/20090909 Fedora/3.5.3-1.fc11 Firefox/3.5.3 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; pl-PL; rv:1.9.1.3) Gecko/20090909 Fedora/3.5.3-1.fc11 Firefox/3.5.3 I'm using Gnash (http://www.gnu.org/software/gnash/) and not Adobe Flash. And yet, Firefox tells me to update to new Adobe Flash player.This is seriously wrong. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Run Firefox with Gnash installed Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/830173/comments/0 On 2009-09-13T02:45:08+00:00 Davemgarrett wrote: Confirmed. Gnash gets caught as old flash with the current checks. It likes to call itself something like Shockwave Flash 8.0 r99. Gnash 0.8.2. If we're checking for old Flash an exception needs to be made for Gnash here. If we really want to get fancy, it could even check for specifically what Gnash version is in use and see if that is too old and needs updating itself. Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/830173/comments/1 On 2009-09-15T17:39:08+00:00 Bugzilla-dolphinling wrote: This probably affects swfdec users as well (haven't tested, I don't use swfdec). A simple fix for gnash would be to check navigator.plugins['Shockwave Flash'].description, and see if it contains the string Gnash. Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/830173/comments/2 On 2009-09-15T17:48:56+00:00 morgamic wrote: This is a bug with Gnash. It shouldn't pose itself as Flash if it's not Flash. Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/830173/comments/3 On 2009-09-15T17:58:47+00:00 Davemgarrett wrote: (In reply to comment #3) This is a bug with Gnash. It shouldn't pose itself as Flash if it's not Flash. And every browser in existence reports itself as Mozilla, but that doesn't mean we ignore that fact in user agent detection. It's a Flash substitute so it needs to pretend to be Flash to be used by things that need to detect Flash. They aren't going to change this any time soon and we really shouldn't tell every Linux user with Gnash that they should install latest Adobe Flash. Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/830173/comments/4 On 2009-09-15T18:06:41+00:00 morgamic wrote: Yes, was aware of the stuff in comment #4. Reopening if someone wants to patch. Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/830173/comments/5 On 2009-09-16T20:16:19+00:00 Michal Nowak wrote: (In reply to comment #1) If we really want to get fancy, it could even check for specifically what Gnash version is in use and see if that is too old and needs updating itself. Please do not. This is distros area, they should take care of having gnash, swfdec, ... security threats-free. Since they are open source it is not the same as with Adobe Flash Player. Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/830173/comments/6 On 2009-11-09T00:11:53+00:00 Davemgarrett wrote: *** Bug 527350 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/830173/comments/7 On 2010-10-19T09:46:40+00:00 Gervase Markham wrote: Michal: Gnash is not just used on Linux. We should certainly be checking Gnash versions, just as we check Adobe Flash versions and versions of all sorts of other plug-ins. That's what the plugin checker is for :-) Gerv Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/830173/comments/8 On 2011-03-12T00:45:06+00:00 Davemgarrett wrote: *** Bug 641140 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/830173/comments/9 On 2011-03-13T00:34:53+00:00 skierpage wrote: For the URL http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/3.6/whatsnew/ mentioned in bug 641140 , the problem is in function flashWarning(). This winds up calling
[Bug 830173] Re: Shockwave Flash outdated version. Can't update it.
I just updated to working 64-bit flash using the firefox add-on flash- aid. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/830173 Title: Shockwave Flash outdated version. Can't update it. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/830173/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 830173] Re: Shockwave Flash outdated version. Can't update it.
Thank you for reporting this to Ubuntu. This is not exactly a firefox bug, but tracking in any event since it's perceived as such. Upstream doesn't do proper detection of gnash. Please report any other issues you may find. ** Changed in: firefox (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided = Low ** Changed in: firefox (Ubuntu) Status: New = Triaged ** Bug watch added: Mozilla Bugzilla #516166 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=516166 ** Also affects: firefox via https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=516166 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/830173 Title: Shockwave Flash outdated version. Can't update it. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/830173/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 830173] Re: Shockwave Flash outdated version. Can't update it.
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