[wellylug] Flash 9 for Mozilla

[Rob Collins]

Thanks Jethro, I'll give it a whirl this evening.

jethro.carr at jethrocarr.com wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 13:57 +1200, Rob Collins wrote:
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>> Hi,
>>
>> On the subject of Firefox . . . Does anyone know why only the user I
>> logged in as in Kubuntu Feisty to install Flashplayer 9 has the thing
>> working in the firefox browser?  All other existing users can only
>> display up to Flashplayer 7 (or eight?) items in firefox.
>>
>> BTW, if I create a new user now that Flash 9 is already installed,
>> everything (FP 9) works fine in that new user.
>>     
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> I'm guessing that version 9 has installed itself into /etc/skel, so that
> new users get the plugin. However, existing users still have the old
> plugin installed in their home directory (eg: ~/.mozilla/plugins/).
>
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> You could fix this in 2 ways:
>
> 1) Replace the old plugin files for each user with version 9
>
> 2) Install the flashplayer to /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins/ and
> remove any local user copies in ~/.mozilla/plugins. (best way)
>
>
> I don't use Feisty so I'm not sure if there is a specific way to do it,
> or if it's just a manual process.
>
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