Chrome Updated, Now Flash Won't Work In Firefox

[Dimitris Kardarakos]

There is no problem with library ownership, since libraries are used 
through the dynamic loader, not directly. And the files/links seems OK.

If you go to "Add Ons" (Firefox menu) what flash related plugins can you 
see?


On 07/09/2012 04:18 PM, A.D. Burrows wrote:
> On Sunday, July 08, 2012 09:59:00 PM Dimitris Kardarakos wrote:
>> On Saturday, July 07, 2012 08:38:44 PM A.D. Burrows wrote:
>>> Please, how can I get Flash apps to work again? (Please note that I'm
>>> not a very advanced user, I'll probably need some hand-holding through
>>> this.)
>> Can you check in folder /etc/alternatives, if a file like
>> "mozilla-flashplugin" exists?
>>
>> If it is a link, can you check to what file is pointing to? (executing
>> 'ls -lrt' on /etc/alternatives)
>>
>> Does the destination of the link really exist?
>>
> Dimitris, thanks very much for your attention. I appreciate your
> trying to help. I fixed the top-reply for you.
>
> It exists and it's a link.
>
> /etc/alternatives/mozilla-flashplugin points to
> /usr/lib/flashplugin-installer/libflashplayer.so
>
> And /usr/lib/flashplugin-installer/libflashplayer.so seems to exist.
> And ls -ls gives this info about it.
> 17000 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 17406436 2012-07-03 20:51
> /usr/lib/flashplugin-installer/libflashplayer.so
>
> Does that name and directory seem a little odd to you? Can it function
> with Firefox if it belongs to root?
>

-- 
Dimitris