None of my CentOS 5 boxen can show flash since the update this morning. Am I alone or do other people have this issue ??
CentOS 7 boxes work properly. I haven’t looked at RHEL 6 boxes yet.
Although I miss using flash on these boxes, it IS a great security upgrade….
4 thoughts on - Firefox Flash Update = No Flash
pro alias wrote:
Do you have noscript, or something like it? Check firefox, also, I think it has some protection to turn off flash by default.
mark
Flash 11.2.202.535 works here in EL6. Try to get some more info out of it, eg try to launch Firefox from cli and see if it spits out anything useful.
Lucian
This may be relevant:
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/add-ons-cause-issues-are-on-blocklist
As a last resort you can go to about:config and set extensions.blocklist.enabled to false, then you have to be more aware of what plugins you’re running and/or where you’re allowing them to run.
Installing the previous version of flash-plugin restores the functionality. It appears to be a Glib2 problem, this version was apparently compiled against another glib2. It wants libgio-2.0.so. Copying the so from
/usr/lib/vmware to /usr/lib64/ stopped it’s complaining but flash still didn’t work.
Another good reason to upgrade the remaining CentOS 5.11 boxes to rhel/CentOS 7.1.