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[Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>]

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Tommy Boatman wrote:
> Hey gang,
> 
> Been in hiding, but still alive and kicking.  
> 
> Has anyone had issues with the Flash Player v9 plugin with Firefox?  For 
> some 
> bizarre reason even if I have it installed, newer websites complain that 
> they "Need Flash 8 or later" yet with Seamonkey I have no issues viewing 
> those very sites.
> 
> tommy@pegasus:/usr/lib/firefox$ gaze versions firefox
> Grimoire    Section  Spell    Grimoire Version  Installed Version
> --------    -------  -----    ----------------  -----------------
> test        http     firefox  2.0.0.3           2.0.0.3
> 
> 
> tommy@pegasus:/usr/lib/firefox$ gaze versions seamonkey
> Grimoire    Section  Spell      Grimoire Version  Installed Version
> --------    -------  -----      ----------------  -----------------
> test        http     seamonkey  1.1.1             1.1.1
> 
> 
> Obviously there's a bug here somewhere, but is it in our setup?  I suspect 
> it's upstream.

Might want to check where flash installed to via `gaze install flash`.
Perhaps it's only installing the newer flash in Seamonkey's plugin
directory and leaving the old flash in Firefox's.

I believe flash only installs its plugin into *one* plugin directory,
not *all* plugin directories (bug or intentional?).

- -sandalle

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