435039 - Adobe Flash plugin is not installing, though it looks like it does

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 416396

(Toolkit Graveyard :: Plugin Finder Service, defect)

Description

[Julie Rapport]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008051206 Firefox/3.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008051206 Firefox/3.0

See the Steps to Reproduce below for all details.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Here are the steps I have taken:
1. Opened up the lastest version of Firefox 3
2. Went to www.americalidol.com
3. In the middle of the home page is a tab called "Watch Today's Video." And in this tab is a blue icon with the words below it that says 'Click here to download plugin'
4. I click to download plugin and all seems to download well.
5. I then restart Firefox
6. Upon restart Firefox takes me back to www.americanidol.com.  However, in the "Watch Today's Video." I still see the blue icon with the words "Click here to download plugin.'
7. So, I try again and the exact same results happen.  Firefox still does not acknowledge that Adobe Flash has installed.
8. Next, I click on "Install Missing Plugin" button, but the exact same results occur.
9. Finally, I went to http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/animator and the exact same thing happens at this website as well.


Expected Results:  
I expected the plugin to install correct so I can watch the flash movie.