How can I install the new version of Flashplayer in Firefox.
Stephen
stephen_o at bell.net
Tue Nov 19 02:27:42 UTC 2013
On 13-11-18 05:10 AM, Colin Law wrote:
> On 18 November 2013 03:43, Stephen <stephen_o at bell.net
> <mailto: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> <mailto: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
>
>
>
Thank you Colin. I will give that a try.
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