Firefox 2 reverts back to flash 7 plugin

Question

Hi, I'm using Firefox 2.0.0.6 on Fedora core 5. I used Yum to
install adobe flash plugin 9. after I installed it and restarted my
browser, the plugin works correctly and I can right click a flash
object and it says indicates version 9 in the "about" option. But
after I quit my browser relaunch it to the same page with the same
flash object, the player reverts to version 7. When I right click
on the flash object on the page, the drop down menu will say "about
macromedia flash player 7". The flash object in question is version
9 compliant.

To remedy the probelm. I have to `yum remove flashplugin`.
start browser and load a flash object. quit browser. run `yum
install flashplugin` relaunch browser and go back to the page with
the flash 9 compliant object. This time it works, and the right
click drop down menu indicates version9. But when I close and open
firefox, the flash plugin in the browser goes back to using version
7.

I checked to make sure that the sym link in the firefox
2.0.0.6 folder points to the .so for the flash 9 plugin. I'm so
tired of having to deinstall the plugin every time I need to see my
flash flile.

thanks

tjwein · Answer

check to see if you have two copies of the libflash in the pluggins folder.

I've started to notice that Yum doesn't always catch what it needs if your using a gui in fedora.

I suggest getting rid of all flash through a terminal and manually placing the lib.so into the pluggin folder (and when you do this the browser is not open).

This should just be a quick fix.

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