I figured it out. Mozilla stores information about each plugin in path/to/profile/pluginreg.dat, and this held the old version of VLC. I think the reason my Firefox (and SeaMonkey) browser didn't update this is it checks the lastModified time of the plugin file at startup. Although I have an updated VLC and libvlc, the libvlcplugin file itself hasn't changed for several versions.
The workaround is to locate your actual libvlcplugin.so file that has the code (mine is in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libvlcplugin.so but there are symlinks to it elsewhere) and sudo touch /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libvlcplugin.so and quit and restart your browser. Another workaround might be to quit your browser and remove pluginreg.dat to force it to rebuild when you next start your browser -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1047766 Title: Mozilla warns browser-plugin-vlc is out-of-date To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/npapi-vlc/+bug/1047766/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
