Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote:
:
Now that nspluginwrapper is out of the way, maybe try uninstalling
flash-plugin, then reinstalling it? (in case some script didn't work).
if that still doesn't work, try logging as another user (or backup
your profile and clear it), to see if it's your user profile that is
bocking things.
I removed and re-installed flash-plugin. Didn't help.
Well, after doing a bit more puttering about, I discovered I had three
different versions of pluginreg.dat in my home directory. I think these
versions reflect the development history of Firefox (I've been using it
since 0.something), and the fact that I have never really punted my
settings and such.
Thus, starting from:
$ cd .mozilla
$ find . -name "pluginreg.dat" -ls
4 -rw------- 288 Nov 13 15:23
./firefox/q3xyzzym.default/pluginreg.dat
4 -rw------- 2586 Apr 15 2008 ./firefox/pluginreg.dat
4 -rw------- 2306 Feb 1 2005 ./pluginreg.dat
Obviously only the one dated 11/13 is "current". I stopped FF, renamed
all of them to "pluginreg.dat-", and restarted FF. Lo:
$ find . -name "pluginreg.dat" -ls
4 -rw------- 284 Nov 14 10:01
./firefox/ds5m6swm.default/pluginreg.dat
and diff shows:
$ diff pluginreg.dat pluginreg.dat-
7c7
< /usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so:$
---
> /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so:$
9,10c9,10
< 1223176557000:1:1:$
< Shockwave Flash 10.0 r12:$
---
> 1206410557000:1:13:$
> Shockwave Flash 9.0 r124:$
Flash now works. Yay. Good thing I have also installed Flashblock :-)
In case you were wondering, about:plugins now reports:
Shockwave Flash
File name: libflashplayer.so
Shockwave Flash 10.0 r12
MIME Type Description Suffixes Enabled
application/x-shockwave-flash Shockwave Flash swf Yes
application/futuresplash FutureSplash Player spl Yes
It sort of feels like this is more a bug in FF than in flash, since FF
didn't detect the change. But I'm not sure I understand what - if
anything - the social contract between FF and plugins says about how to
do an update.
If there's a good place for me to report this (aside from here, since
I've effectively done that), that would be great. I'm still not sure
what it was that allowed flash to briefly work in between updates (see
early notes in this thread).
This was sure tedious, and leaves open the question of the value of
nspluginwrapper.
-Del
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