527350 - Outdated Flash plugin reported with Gnash plugin installed after Firefox upgrade

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 516166

(addons.mozilla.org Graveyard :: Plugins, defect)

Description

[David Harmanec]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091105 Fedora/3.5.5-1.fc11 Firefox/3.5.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091105 Fedora/3.5.5-1.fc11 Firefox/3.5.5

After upgrade of Firofox (most recently to the version 3.5.5 but it happened since the outdated add-ons feature was introduced) with Gnash add-on installed (free software implementation of Adobe Flash) the user is informed that "You should update Adobe Flash Player right now." and referred to the Adobe site. This is incorrect. No Adobe Flash Player is installed and most likely the user does not want to use closed-source non-free product.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Install older version of Firefox (e.g., 3.5.4)
2. Install Gnash plugin
3. Upgrade to Firefox 3.5.5
4. Start Firefox
Actual Results:  
The page http://en-us.www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/3.5.5/whatsnew/ is opened and the following message is displayed:
You should update Adobe Flash Player right now.

Firefox is up to date, but your current version of Flash Player can cause security and stability issues. Please install the free update as soon as possible.

Expected Results:  
No warning message should be displayed if the Gnash plugin is the latest available.

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Please type about:plugins as URl and copy the gnash section.

Comment 2

[David Harmanec]

Here it is:
Shockwave Flash

    File name: nswrapper_32_32.libgnashplugin.so
    Shockwave Flash 9.0 r999. Gnash 0.8.5, the GNU SWF Player. Copyright © 2006, 2007, 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
    Gnash comes with NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. You may redistribute copies of Gnash under the terms of the GNU General Public License. For more information about Gnash, see http://www.gnu.org/software/gnash. Compatible Shockwave Flash 9.0 r999.

MIME Type 	Description 	Suffixes 	Enabled
application/x-shockwave-flash 	Shockwave Flash 	swf 	Yes