Firefox and libflashplayer.so

[Hal Burgiss]

On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 03:51:07PM +0100, R Kimber wrote:
> I've effectively done that, though by copying the file, rather than using
> symlinks.

I'll argue against this, since I think its a deprecated location, and may
cause other problems. The reason I say this is that I have been using Chrome
for awhile. Recently flash stopped working, and I notice the error messages
all referenced ~/.mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so. After awhile I decided to
look at that directory and found that libflashplayer.so was dated June 2007.
Hmmm, was this a holdover from FF2? After renaming this directory, all was
well again. So while this location might work, I don't think it is the proper
place for such things (any more). My system installed flash lib is in ... 
/usr/lib/flashplugin-installer/libflashplayer.so, which seems to be current
and works with Chrome, FF3, and FF3.5 (32 bit). In any case I think putting
something there will likely orphan it and break something else down the road. 


-- 
Hal