Flash Plugin says installed, but prompts for installation in firefox

David Kuntadi d.kuntadi at gmail.com
Wed Apr 13 12:46:53 UTC 2011


On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 7:20 PM, Dave Thacker <dthacker at bluestrain.net> wrote:
> Hello List,
> After running updates last night,  I find that firefox is prompting me to
> install flash plugins when I attempt to play a video, but when I say yes to the
> prompts,  it shows that  "Package flashplugin-installer" is already installed.
> I've tried removing the package and re-installing it from Kpackagekit, but
> that did not help.
>
> Recommendations?

Try below:

1. Remove flashplugin
2. Delete or rename /home/username/.mozilla folder
3. Install flashplugin

DK




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