Latest Adobe Flash plugin just installed

[Lucio M Nicolosi]

On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 12:13 AM, Basil Chupin <blchupin at iinet.net.au> wrote:
> On 10/02/2011 12:06, Lucio M Nicolosi wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 10:16 PM, MR ZenWiz<mrzenwiz at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>>
>>> So, just for fun, I pulled down the 64-bit version from adobe.com, and
>>> it doesn't work at all.
>>>
>>> I like what I have - it works.
>>
>> I've been using Adobe Flash 64 Beta and "Square" for a long time now
>> with no issues (10,3,162,29)
>>
>> Just remove any trace of a previous Flash install, download "Square" from
>>
>> http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/000/6b3af6c9.html
>>
>> Extract libflashplayer.so to home/$/.mozilla/plugins/
>>
>> Restart Firefox and it's done.
>
> Sounds like you are using Firefox directly from Mozilla and installing it in
> your home directory - which is what I used to do until 12 months ago. The
> installation of firefox which comes with Ubuntu, and 'maintained' by
> Canonical, does not use the /home/.mozilla/plugins/ - the symlink there is
> "dead"; the plugin for FF is in /usr/lib/firefox/plugins.

No I'm not, this is a clean Maverick 64 install (/home is indeed from
previous installs) with Firefox embedded and I just (today) upgraded
Flash 64 this way. Seemingly  /home/.mozilla/plugins/ isn't dead yet.

L.


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