Chrome Updated, Now Flash Won't Work In Firefox

[George Dvorak]

On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 11:10 AM, Dimitris Kardarakos <d.kardarakos at gmail.com
> wrote:

> 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?
>>
>>
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