713785 - Firefox is disabling latest flash player, even after I update to latest

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[wrinkledcheese]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); en-GB; rv:1.9.2.25) Gecko/20111212 Firefox/3.6.25
Build ID: 20111212142243

Steps to reproduce:

Went to a website with flash content.  When the content didn't load I tried uninstalling flash player and re-installing flash player.  When that didn't work, I tried updating firefox, from 4.0 to 9.0.1.  After going to https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/plugincheck/ I determined it was an issue with what seems to be every version of Firefox(3.6.25, 4.0, 9.0.1) disabling Adobe Flash Player 11.whatever.the.latest.available.is.out.of.beta - 11.1.102.55 I think.

Installed 3.6.25 to get gmail working - suspect googletalk plugin causing 9.0.1 crash - and created bugzilla account.


Actual results:

Content didn't load, and I went to the wevbsite using Chrome, which tells me I have 11.1.102.55 installed.


Expected results:

The content should work in Firefox since I DO have the latest flash player.  Firefox shouldn't disable but instead ANNOY THE HELL out of the user.  IE 60 second notification intervals to update.

Comment 1

[Thomas Ahlblom]

Where did you install the FlashPlayer?

Did you put it there manually or did you use an install script or similar?

BTW, the latest Adobe FlashPlayer is 11.2.202.160:
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplatformruntimes/flashplayer11-2/

Any success if you manually put libflashplayer.so in your ~/.mozilla/plugins?

Comment 2

[wrinkledcheese]

"Where did you install the FlashPlayer?"
pkill firefox
tar zxvf install_flash_player...,tar,gz
sudo cp libflashplayer.so /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins
Firefox is installed in /usr/lib64/firefox-9.0.1 with a link to /usr/lib64/firefox which is where /usr/bin/firefox has been updated to link to.  Originally Slackware 13.37 comes with Firefox 4.0 which has a /usr/bin/firefox link to /usr/lib64/firefox-4.0.  I am not getting any plugins detected at all where I used to have 3 - Flash, Java and something for Konqueror that comes pre-installed.

"Did you put it there manually or did you use an install script or similar?"
Manual installation

"BTW, the latest Adobe FlashPlayer is 11.2.202.160:
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplatformruntimes/flashplayer11-2/"
That's beta.  Firefox should not be forcing labs versions, they are potentially buggy - I know from experience how buggy labs versions can be.  The page that the plugin checker links to is the latest ga release and not the latest labs beta.

"Any success if you manually put libflashplayer.so in your ~/.mozilla/plugins?"
I didn't try, there isn't a ~/.mozilla/plugins directory.  I will create one and try and reply back.

Once I upgrade to 9.0.1 it stops working in anything.  I'm working on recompiling Firefox-9.0.1 from source to see if it will have an effect.  I suspected that the version I installed was the x86 version and thus looking in /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins instead of /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins.  So I downloaded the 64 bit tar.bz from the ftp and I'm getting the same issue.

Comment 3

[wrinkledcheese]

Creating plugins inside ~/.mozilla and copying libflashplayer.so to there had no effect.  Firefox is still compiling.

Comment 4

[wrinkledcheese]

I have the same environment at work as I do at home with the exception of hardware and plugins.  When I tried to do the same update at work I it reminded me of a few details that may be important.

I updated to 9.0.1 and checked plugins and nothing came up.  I went back to 4.0 and is was disabling latest ga flash.  I tried 3.6.25 for s&g with same results.  Still disabling plugins.

It wasn't until I got to work today that I tried to manually download the 64bit tar.bz file from the FTP.

Comment 5

[wrinkledcheese]

Firefox compiled.  The first time it ran it was Firefox 9.0.1, verified on the about Firefox window.  When I closed it, copied libflashplayer.so into builddir/dist/bin/plugins, flash worked.  However it was also now called Aurora 9.0.1 - Yes I know new features testing version.  Anyway, I had the great idea of creating a plugins dir in /usr/lib64/firefox-9.0.1 and low and behold it works.  I will be investigating how Firefox finds plugins, and if it's a build option I will be looking into that.