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[sqweek <sqweek AT gmail.com>]

On 5/3/07, Tommy Boatman <tboatman2 AT houston.rr.com> wrote:
> 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.

I suspect you're right, I have a manual install of firefox 2.0.0.2
here (dl'd binary pkg before ff2 hit test and never got around to
switching back) and get the same thing, flash just works better in
seamonkey. Comparing about:plugins of firefox/seamonkey I notice that
ff is finding 2 versions of flash, 7.0 r25 and 9.0 r31, where
seamonkey only finds 9.0 r31. Turns out I have 6 instances of
libflashplayer.so on my HDD:

/home/sqweek/.mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
/home/sqweek/pkg/firefox/plugins/libflashplayer.so
/usr/lib/firefox/plugins/libflashplayer.so
/usr/lib/opera/plugins/libflashplayer.so
/usr/lib/seamonkey/plugins/libflashplayer.so
/usr/local/lib/flash/libflashplayer.so

All of these are identical *except* for
/home/sqweek/.mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so. So I'm about to get
rid of it and see if it's some legacy firefox thingy going on, then
I'll send this mail...
Bingo. Shoved that into my home dir, reran firefox, no more flash 7,
everything works.
-sqweek