353361 - Two versions of Shockwave Flash (8.0 r24 and 8.0 r22) both reported as installed

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Camino Graveyard :: Plug-ins, defect)

Description

[Dave Aton]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.0.4) Gecko/20060613 Camino/1.0.2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8.0.4) Gecko/20060613 Camino/1.0.2

about:plugins reports two versions of Shockwave Flash installed.

Shockwave Flash

    File name: Flash Player Enabler.plugin
    Shockwave Flash 8.0 r24

MIME Type 	Description 	Suffixes 	Enabled
application/x-shockwave-flash 	Shockwave Flash 	swf 	Yes
application/futuresplash 	FutureSplash Player 	spl 	Yes


Shockwave Flash

    File name: Flash Player.plugin
    Shockwave Flash 8.0 r22

MIME Type 	Description 	Suffixes 	Enabled
application/x-shockwave-flash 	Shockwave Flash 	swf 	Yes
application/futuresplash 	FutureSplash Player 	spl 	Yes

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Enter about:plugins in address window
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
Above.

Expected Results:  
Expected one version.

/Library/Internet Plug-Ins/FlashPlayer.plugin is version 8.0.24.

~/Library/Internet Plug-Ins does not have a copy of FlashPlayer.plugin.

Comment 1

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

I currently see this too, and have been ever since installing version 9 of the plugin.

I have no idea what's causing it, nor whether it's Camino's fault or the fault of the Flash plugin.

Tossing pluginreg.dat does *not* fix the problem.

cl

Comment 2

[froodian (Ian Leue)]

There are two plugins, Flash Player.plugin and Flash Player Enabler.plugin in that folder (for me).  I'm not sure why they both exist (or whether they should both exist), but since they do, it seems logical that Camino report them both.  I say INVALID (and possibly a bug on their part).

Comment 3

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

Recent Flash installers have been very buggy about removing parts of old versions; my solution to "1/2 and 1/2" Flash versions has been to remove all Flash-related files before installing the new version.

Comment 4

[Dave Aton]

Thanks. After running the Flash uninstaller and then installing Flash 9, "about:plugins" only reports Flash 9 installed. (Aside: after the Flash 9 install, I ran Repair Permissions and it reported and fixed many Flash-related problems. A restart and re-run reported no problems.)