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

[Stephen]

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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