Chrome Updated, Now Flash Won't Work In Firefox

[Dimitris Kardarakos]

Really no idea why after manually removing .mozilla directory bookmarks 
are still there....

Can you post the content of ~/.mozilla/firefox/*.default/pluginreg.dat ?


On 07/12/2012 12:47 AM, A.D. Burrows wrote:
> On Tuesday, July 10, 2012 07:32:07 PM Dimitris Kardarakos wrote:
>
>> Well, Adobe will not release Linux versions of Flash anymore. But this
>> does not mean that the last release (11.2) is not functional
>>
>> It's normal to see all installed plugins in Firefox addons menu.
>> Unfortunately, a conflict seems to have occurred.
>>
>> I'd suggest the following:
>>
>> 1. Try disabling the flash players plugins apart from the Adobe one
>> (Shockwave Flash 11.2 r202), either from Firefox addons menu or, if you
>> are risk prone, editing ~/.mozilla/firefox/xxxx.default
>>
>> 2. If this does not work, try removing completely (purge) firefox,
>> chrome and flash plugins, and perform a new installation of firefox and
>> adobe flash plugin.
>>
>> Good luck!
> ~/.mozilla/firefox/xxxx.default turned out to be a directory, so I
> disabled Gnash from Ff's AddOns menu; no change. I even tried enabling
> Gnash and diasbling Adobe; at least I got controls, but no joy on apps
> actually running.
>
> With a little extra help from you, I apt-get purged Firefox, Chrome
> and Chromium, Gnash and the Adobe flash player, deleted the .mozilla
> directory, then re-installed Firefox and Adobe. Just to be sure, I ran
> apt-get autoremove then restarted Lucid. I first realized something
> was wrong when I ran Firefox and saw the same theme as I'd been using
> before the purge. All my bookmarks were still there, too. Sure enough,
> no joy playing a Flash app, (and I tried three different ones.) I
> repeated the purging procedure and noticed this time that apt-get
> hadn't deleted two directories because they were not empty;
> /usr/lib/firefox/plugins and /usr/lib/firefox-addons/plugins. After
> purging everything, I went back and deleted them manually, (sudo rm
> -rf.) Again I did apt-get autoremove and tried Ff. Again the same
> theme and bookmarks were there and again, no joy on Flash apps.
>
> But I did find a single Flash movie I could play; a short advert
> running in a small window. So apparently Adobe Shockwave _does_ work,
> just not on very much! And I remembered something else; I _think_ I
> had Firefox using Chrome's Flash player before somehow, which would
> explain why the update killed Flash on Firefox.
>
> Dimitris, you've been a great help to me and I want to tell you again
> that I appreciate all your help. So what now?
>

-- 
Dimitris