Firefox - Flash Player anomalies

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Problems running Flash Player in Firefox

after zypper dup to openSUSE-release-20150908-1.2.x86_64

when a teletxt page was requested for loading in firefox the following message appeared

“A plugin is needed to display this content.”

accessing videos eg. BBC or FilmOn worked ok

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after zypper dup to openSUSE-release-20150909-1.2.x86_64

in addition to no access to teletext pages, videos eg. BBC or FilmOn return the following

“Please update your Flash Player plugin”

or

“You need to install Flash Player to play this content.”

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installed are :-
MozillaFirefox-40.0.3-1.1.x86_64
MozillaFirefox-branding-openSUSE-40-1.1.x86_64
MozillaFirefox-translations-common-40.0.3-1.1.x86_64
mozilla-kde4-integration-0.6.4-7.3.x86_64
mozilla-nspr-4.10.8-2.3.x86_64
mozilla-nss-3.19.2-2.1.x86_64
mozilla-nss-certs-3.19.2-2.1.x86_64
mozilla-nss-tools-3.19.2-2.1.x86_64

and
java-1_7_0-openjdk-1.7.0.85-1.1.x86_64
java-1_7_0-openjdk-headless-1.7.0.85-1.1.x86_64
java-1_7_0-openjdk-plugin-1.6-1.1.x86_64
java-1_8_0-openjdk-1.8.0.60-1.1.x86_64
java-1_8_0-openjdk-headless-1.8.0.60-1.1.x86_64
java-1_8_0-openjdk-plugin-1.6-1.1.x86_64
javapackages-tools-4.4.0-1.1.x86_64

and
flash-player-11.2.202.508-1.1.x86_64
flash-player-kde4-11.2.202.508-1.1.x86_64

anyone else noticed similar problems?

all plays ok in Chromium.

cheers

2

ooops – please ignore the above

fault finding this morning firefox was started from a terminal and all worked correctly

again tried from a desktop icon and the same symptoms occurred

after deleting the icon and them creating another the icon allowed firefox to run normally

time wasting again?!

cheers

3

fwiw

after starting firefox from the command line any icon pointing at firefox only works during that session
(allowing videos to be accessed)

after a reboot running firefox from a previously generated icon runs into the problem of flash player not being recognized

cheers