Adobe Flash Player Plugin for Firefox

English Applications
#1

The latest plugin (Ver: 11.2.202.442) tar.gz calls for copying a file to the Firefox plugin directory.
I´m using openSUSE 12.3 64 bit, where is the Firefox plugin directory?
How do I find it?

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#2

alternatively,

why not download the rpm from the Adobe Flash-Player web site

http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer11.html

but before installing it, delete

< flash-player-11.2.202.440-1.2.x86_64
< flash-player-kde4-11.2.202.440-1.2.x86_64
or whatever is installed, ymmv

#3

NB.

for some openSUSE versions, it looks as though the flash-player-11.2.202.442
is already available, so should be available soon for all,
if you can wait a couple of days

#4

the simplest thing to do is create a plugins folder in your firefox profile and copy the *.so there, but that one will not get updates and if you install a plugin via rpm you might end up with 2 flash plugins and a headache.
Anyhow your firefox profile is
/home/<you>/.mozilla/firefox/<somethingsomething.default/<make a plugins dir here>

ps packman also provides flash plugins so we might get an update soon

#5

openSUSE 12.3 is out of support already, and doesn’t receive any more updates.
You should better upgrade to a supported version, like 13.1 or 13.2.

That said, browser plugins are normally installed to /usr/lib64/browser-plugins/.

And an updated openSUSE flash-player package is available for 12.1-12.3 here:
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse/2015-02/msg00220.html

#6

fwiw

the latest rpm from Adobe has the contents and puts the files as follows,

Version: 11.2.202.442-release

flash-plugin - Adobe Flash Player

/usr/bin/flash-player-properties
/usr/lib64/flash-plugin
/usr/lib64/flash-plugin/LICENSE
/usr/lib64/flash-plugin/README
/usr/lib64/flash-plugin/homecleanup
/usr/lib64/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so
/usr/lib64/flash-plugin/setup
/usr/lib64/kde4/kcm_adobe_flash_player.so
/usr/share/applications/flash-player-properties.desktop
/usr/share/doc/flash-plugin-11.2.202.442
/usr/share/doc/flash-plugin-11.2.202.442/readme.txt
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/flash-player-properties.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/22x22/apps/flash-player-properties.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/24x24/apps/flash-player-properties.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/flash-player-properties.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/flash-player-properties.png
/usr/share/kde4/services/kcm_adobe_flash_player.desktop

17 files total

hth

#7

Thank you all for your support. Looks like an update to a later version is the way to go.
Thanks again,

:slight_smile: