Today one website I usually visit requires me to upgrade the Adobe Flash player, and in fact, I just did recently n the emerge world. From the output of the Firefox about:plugins output, I seems to have more than one Flash player installed:
Two Flash plugins installed in Firefox

It is a little bit overkill to launch strace as Firefox considerately leaves the option to expose the full path by enabling plugin.expose_full_path in about:config, this is the screenshot after netscape-flash-9.0.124.0 is un-emerged:
One Flash plugin installed in Firefox with full path exposed

Seems I did manually install the flash-7.0r63 in the home directory that overrides the system-wide Flash plugin. Once it is removed, and 9.0.124.0 is re-emerged, everything works.

BTW, if you happen to be a Flash developer, and would need to install multiple versions of Flash player, it is may be worthy taking a look at Flash Switcher as well.

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One Comment to “Two plugins in one browser just makes trouble”

  1. ramzport | February 17th, 2010 at 10:56 pm

    How to install a Adobe Flash player on Opera 10?
    Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala… It is impossible to update…

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