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Firefox/Linux: flash plugin won't show up in about:plugins

Posted: Fri Nov 05, 2010 5:19 pm
by ^rooker
[PROBLEM]
After installing the Flash 10 firefox plugin from adobe (as .deb package), it wouldn't show up in "about:plugins"

[SOLUTION]
There are several plugin names that libflashplayer.so is referred to:
  • firefox-flashplugin
  • iceweasel-flashplugin
  • mozilla-flashplugin
  • xulrunner-flashplugin
  • iceape-flashplugin
  • midbrowser-flashplugin
  • xulrunner-addons-flashplugin
The configuration which plugin is used, is made by the "alternatives" configuration in /etc/alternatives as symlinks.
Now to fix/update those symlinks to point the the right libflashplayer.so in "/usr/lib/adobe-flashplugin/libflashplayer.so", run "update-alternatives" for each of the plugin names, like this:

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sudo update-alternatives --config firefox-flashplugin