How can I install the new version of Flashplayer in Firefox.

[Colin Law]

On 18 November 2013 03:43, Stephen <stephen_o at bell.net> wrote:

>  On 13-11-17 05:51 AM, Colin Law wrote:
>
> On 17 November 2013 10:29, Stephen <stephen_o at bell.net> <stephen_o at bell.net> wrote:
>
>  I went to plugins in firefox and it told me that flashplayer needed to be
> updated. I clicked on the button to update it now, and it sent me to a web
> site where it could be downloaded.
>
>  How did you install the plugin in the first place?  Normally one would
> install flashplugin-installer via apt-get or the Software Center and
> it would automatically update.
>
> Which version of Ubuntu are you using and what do you see if, in a
> terminal, you do
> apt-cache policy flashplugin-installer
>
> What is the name and version of the plugin that you see in Firefox
> plugins?  On Ubuntu 13.10 32 bit I see
> Shockwave Flash 11.2,202,327
>
> Also what version of Firefox is it?
>
> Colin
>
>
>  I'm using Ubuntu 12.04. Firefox 25.0  then it says Mozilla Firefox for
> Ubuntu canonical - 1.0
> Shockwave Flash 11.2,202,327 is the same as you.
> When I click to see if plugins are up to date I get this message
>
>   Shockwave FlashShockwave Flash 11.2 r202 vulnerable Update Now<http://www.adobe.com/go/getflashplayer>
> When I click on update now it goes to adobe web site and I choose the one
> for Ubuntu 10+ it asks me which app I want to use to update the plugin?
> I'm totally lost and I can't play the game on the website without updating
> fashplayer.
>

If you look carefully on the download page you will see that 11.2,202,237
is the latest available for Linux, so we are already on the latest
available version.  I gather that Adobe no longer supports flash on Linux.

If you game will not work without a later flash player I suggest you
contact the game supplier and tell them that they should be abandoning
flash (which has always been a security vulnerability) and moving to html5,
for example.

Colin
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