Re: Adobe not providing linux flash updates

2015-02-12 Thread Tim
Allegedly, on or about 12 February 2015, Stephen Morris sent: > I removed pluginreg.dat and restarted firefox but about:plugins > said I still had the 310 version installed. Your restart *may* not have completely exited firefox, so it still had the prior version loaded. Firefox is like that, it

Re: Adobe not providing linux flash updates

2015-02-11 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 11.02.2015, Stephen Morris wrote: > I removed pluginreg.dat and restarted firefox but about:plugins said > I still had the 310 version installed. It wasn't until I rebooted > linux that firefox reflected the correct version, which is why I > thought it might be the ldconfig cache. I could have

Re: Adobe not providing linux flash updates

2015-02-11 Thread Stephen Morris
On 02/11/2015 06:32 PM, Heinz Diehl wrote: On 10.02.2015, Stephen Morris wrote: I already have this repository configured and had installed the 440 version quite some time ago (it seems we need to specify the exact version as this repository seems to have the 64 bit and 32 bit versions), but fi

Re: Adobe not providing linux flash updates

2015-02-11 Thread Kelly Miller
Is mentioning third party repositories okay on the users list? Anyway, AFAICS, you don't need to install Chrome or Chromium to get Pepper Flash; the RPM for it doesn't seem to have Chromium as a requirement. Obviously, if you install Google's copy of Chrome, then you get Pepper Flash with it... O

Re: Adobe not providing linux flash updates

2015-02-10 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 10.02.2015, Stephen Morris wrote: > I already have this repository configured and had installed the 440 version > quite some time ago (it seems we need to specify the exact version as this > repository seems to have the 64 bit and 32 bit versions), but firefox had > always said the installed p

Re: Adobe not providing linux flash updates

2015-02-10 Thread Heinz Diehl
On 03.02.2015, inode0 wrote: > I'd just take a few flash free days until adobe gets it fixed to be a > little safer. Flash has been a security nightmare for ages, it will never get any safer.. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: ht

Re: Adobe not providing linux flash updates

2015-02-10 Thread Rejy M Cyriac
On 02/10/2015 06:54 PM, Kelly Miller wrote: > You could grab the Fresh Player Plugin as well, which allows Firefox to > use Chrome's Pepper Flash plugin (which is up to date). > Looking around for information about Fresh Player Plugin, I ran into an article that said "Mozilla is working on its ow

Re: Adobe not providing linux flash updates

2015-02-10 Thread Ahmad Samir
On 10 February 2015 at 22:19, Stephen Morris wrote: > On 02/11/2015 02:34 AM, Ahmad Samir wrote: >> >> On 10 February 2015 at 10:44, Stephen Morris >> wrote: >>> >>> I've just booted linux after getting home from work, started firefox and >>> checked the plugins and firefox is now showing the rig

Re: Adobe not providing linux flash updates

2015-02-10 Thread Garry T. Williams
On 2-11-15 07:19:24 Stephen Morris wrote: > Maybe I'm misunderstanding things but I thought that ldconfig was > run every boot, otherwise updated versions of modules placed in > those directories would never be used because they were in the cash, > unless of coarse there is a post install script in

Re: Adobe not providing linux flash updates

2015-02-10 Thread poma
On 10.02.2015 21:13, Stephen Morris wrote: > On 02/10/2015 08:09 PM, poma wrote: >> On 10.02.2015 09:44, Stephen Morris wrote: >>> On 02/10/2015 11:42 AM, poma wrote: On 09.02.2015 22:28, Fred Smith wrote: > On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 08:26:42AM +1100, Stephen Morris wrote: >> On 02/04/20

Re: Adobe not providing linux flash updates

2015-02-10 Thread Stephen Morris
On 02/11/2015 12:24 AM, Kelly Miller wrote: You could grab the Fresh Player Plugin as well, which allows Firefox to use Chrome's Pepper Flash plugin (which is up to date). I haven't heard of that before, where would I find it? Am I also correct in assuming that for the usage of Chrome's plugin (

Re: Adobe not providing linux flash updates

2015-02-10 Thread Stephen Morris
On 02/11/2015 02:34 AM, Ahmad Samir wrote: On 10 February 2015 at 10:44, Stephen Morris wrote: I've just booted linux after getting home from work, started firefox and checked the plugins and firefox is now showing the right version, seems that I had to reboot linux for the rpm installation and

Re: Adobe not providing linux flash updates

2015-02-10 Thread Stephen Morris
On 02/10/2015 08:09 PM, poma wrote: On 10.02.2015 09:44, Stephen Morris wrote: On 02/10/2015 11:42 AM, poma wrote: On 09.02.2015 22:28, Fred Smith wrote: On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 08:26:42AM +1100, Stephen Morris wrote: On 02/04/2015 05:12 PM, Ahmad Samir wrote: On 3 February 2015 at 23:44, Ro

Re: Adobe not providing linux flash updates

2015-02-10 Thread Ahmad Samir
On 10 February 2015 at 10:44, Stephen Morris wrote: > I've just booted linux after getting home from work, started firefox and > checked the plugins and firefox is now showing the right version, seems that > I had to reboot linux for the rpm installation and the symlinks to take > effect. On refle

Re: Adobe not providing linux flash updates

2015-02-10 Thread Kelly Miller
You could grab the Fresh Player Plugin as well, which allows Firefox to use Chrome's Pepper Flash plugin (which is up to date). On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 4:44 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > www.cnn.com is telling me that my version of flash-player is out of date > with security risks so it won't dis

Re: Adobe not providing linux flash updates

2015-02-10 Thread poma
On 10.02.2015 09:44, Stephen Morris wrote: > On 02/10/2015 11:42 AM, poma wrote: >> On 09.02.2015 22:28, Fred Smith wrote: >>> On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 08:26:42AM +1100, Stephen Morris wrote: On 02/04/2015 05:12 PM, Ahmad Samir wrote: > On 3 February 2015 at 23:44, Robert Moskowitz >

Re: Adobe not providing linux flash updates

2015-02-10 Thread Stephen Morris
On 02/10/2015 11:42 AM, poma wrote: On 09.02.2015 22:28, Fred Smith wrote: On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 08:26:42AM +1100, Stephen Morris wrote: On 02/04/2015 05:12 PM, Ahmad Samir wrote: On 3 February 2015 at 23:44, Robert Moskowitz wrote: www.cnn.com is telling me that my version of flash-player

Re: Adobe not providing linux flash updates

2015-02-09 Thread poma
On 09.02.2015 22:28, Fred Smith wrote: > On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 08:26:42AM +1100, Stephen Morris wrote: >> On 02/04/2015 05:12 PM, Ahmad Samir wrote: >>> On 3 February 2015 at 23:44, Robert Moskowitz wrote: www.cnn.com is telling me that my version of flash-player is out of date with se

Re: Adobe not providing linux flash updates

2015-02-09 Thread poma
On 09.02.2015 21:16, Stephen Morris wrote: ... > Adobe web site. I've also heard that Adobe are not releasing any future > version of flash for Linux (has that state changed?) plus they were ... http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/tech-specs.html "Note: Flash Player 11.2 is the last suppor

Re: Adobe not providing linux flash updates

2015-02-09 Thread Fred Smith
On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 08:26:42AM +1100, Stephen Morris wrote: > On 02/04/2015 05:12 PM, Ahmad Samir wrote: > >On 3 February 2015 at 23:44, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > >>www.cnn.com is telling me that my version of flash-player is out of date > >>with security risks so it won't display any video ne

Re: Adobe not providing linux flash updates

2015-02-09 Thread Stephen Morris
On 02/04/2015 05:12 PM, Ahmad Samir wrote: On 3 February 2015 at 23:44, Robert Moskowitz wrote: www.cnn.com is telling me that my version of flash-player is out of date with security risks so it won't display any video news. Go and update your flash player. On this F21 system I am using: ado

Re: Adobe not providing linux flash updates

2015-02-09 Thread Stephen Morris
On 02/04/2015 04:42 PM, Ahmad Samir wrote: On 4 February 2015 at 00:43, inode0 wrote: On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 4:32 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: On 02/03/2015 04:48 PM, inode0 wrote: There is another exploit in the wild that adobe expects to fix with another release sometime this week. I have

Re: Adobe not providing linux flash updates

2015-02-03 Thread Ahmad Samir
On 3 February 2015 at 23:44, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > www.cnn.com is telling me that my version of flash-player is out of date > with security risks so it won't display any video news. Go and update your > flash player. > > On this F21 system I am using: > > adobe-linux-x86_64.repo > > which has

Re: Adobe not providing linux flash updates

2015-02-03 Thread Ahmad Samir
On 4 February 2015 at 00:43, inode0 wrote: > On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 4:32 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: >> On 02/03/2015 04:48 PM, inode0 wrote: >>> There is another exploit in the wild that adobe expects to fix with >>> another release sometime this week. >> >> >> I have a limited use of flash. Fo

Re: Adobe not providing linux flash updates

2015-02-03 Thread inode0
On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 4:32 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > On 02/03/2015 04:48 PM, inode0 wrote: >> There is another exploit in the wild that adobe expects to fix with >> another release sometime this week. > > > I have a limited use of flash. For sites like cnn. Well, I think one of my > banks u

Re: Adobe not providing linux flash updates

2015-02-03 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 02/03/2015 04:48 PM, inode0 wrote: On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 3:44 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: www.cnn.com is telling me that my version of flash-player is out of date with security risks so it won't display any video news. Go and update your flash player. On this F21 system I am using: adob

Re: Adobe not providing linux flash updates

2015-02-03 Thread Tom Rivers
On 2/3/2015 16:47, Steven Stern wrote: CNN works with Chrome. That's because Flash is baked into the browser itself: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/108086?hl=en Tom -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fed

Re: Adobe not providing linux flash updates

2015-02-03 Thread inode0
On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 3:44 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > www.cnn.com is telling me that my version of flash-player is out of date > with security risks so it won't display any video news. Go and update your > flash player. > > On this F21 system I am using: > > adobe-linux-x86_64.repo > > which

Re: Adobe not providing linux flash updates

2015-02-03 Thread Steven Stern
On 02/03/2015 03:44 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > www.cnn.com is telling me that my version of flash-player is out of date > with security risks so it won't display any video news. Go and update > your flash player. > > On this F21 system I am using: > > adobe-linux-x86_64.repo > > which has in

Adobe not providing linux flash updates

2015-02-03 Thread Robert Moskowitz
www.cnn.com is telling me that my version of flash-player is out of date with security risks so it won't display any video news. Go and update your flash player. On this F21 system I am using: adobe-linux-x86_64.repo which has in it: baseurl=http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/linux/x86_64/ yum