320800 - Flash not picked up after upgrade

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 219701

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Stijn De Preter]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051219 MultiZilla/1.7.0.1e SeaMonkey/1.0b
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051219 MultiZilla/1.7.0.1e SeaMonkey/1.0b

Upgraded from SM 10 Nov to 19 Dec build. Did proper uninstall. Install went without problem. When I visited the first page using Flash, SM didn't pick up that Flash 8 had already been installed. Re-installed Flash 8 solved problem.
Also use PrefBar 3.2.1.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Uninstall previous SM version
2. Install new version
3. Visit URL with Flash: no Flash detected.
4. Re-install Flash 8, refresh page: problem solved.

Actual Results:  
1. Uninstall previous SM version
2. Install new version
3. Visit URL with Flash: no Flash detected.
4. Re-install Flash 8, refresh page: problem solved.


Expected Results:  
SM should detect previous Flash installs.

Had the same problem when upgrading from 1.7 branch to SM 1.0 a. Solved the same way.

Comment 1

[Elmar Ludwig]

*** Bug 320802 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2

[Frank Wein [:mcsmurf]]

The problem is the uninstaller deletes the plugins folder...have you tried just installing the new version over the old version without uninstalling that first? It's not a recommened way, but it should work.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 219701 ***

Comment 3

[Stijn De Preter]

Thanks Frank, installing on top of previous version seems to have solved the problem. Should have thought of it, should have saved my old plugin folder before uninstalling and copied into new version's folder.