[Bug 365400] Re: Firefox doesn't detect flash plugin after upgrading from 8.10

[rja]

Unfortunately, purging and reinstalling flashplugin-installer solved the
problem, so I can't replicate the error. I got the workaround from this
post on the forums, though -
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1112676

Any suggestions on where I can find some log file that might have
recorded this?

Alexander, running the command you've mentioned does nothing, because
the problem has already been solved on my machine -

There is only 1 program which provides xulrunner-addons-flashplugin
(/var/lib/flashplugin-installer/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so). Nothing to configure.


The exact behaviour I saw was - When I started Firefox and went to a couple of sites where Flash was used, FF prompted to "install missing plugins" just as if they weren't  installed. I was using flash based sites just fine before the upgrade.

To be exact (though I don't think that would make any difference), I
cancelled the plugin installation without selecting any option, and
restarted FF a couple of times before I finally tried to install the
Adobe plugin.

When I did try to install the Adobe plugin, it said something like
"flashplugin-installer already installed." It might also have said
"nothing to do" or something to that effect.

So I shutdown Firefox, removed and purged flashplugin-installer, and
then installed it again.

I then started Firefox again, and Flash was back.

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Firefox doesn't detect flash plugin after upgrading from 8.10
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/365400
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