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Log in to rate this extension. Report this add-on for abuse. Report this add-on for abuse If you think this add-on violates Mozilla's add-on policies or has security or privacy issues, please report these issues to Mozilla using this form. You can see this is the screenshot above from the Secunia Software Inspector, which shows both versions of the latest Flash player.

One computer in particular desperately resisted being updated to the latest version of the Flash player. I eventually got it working, however. So if anything similar happens to you, you may find a helpful tip below. The problematic machine was running the latest version of Firefox 2. I mentioned yesterday that Adobe has what I refer to as a "tester" page for Flash , a Web page that displays the currently installed version of the Flash player. When I approached the machine this morning, the Flash tester page showed that Firefox was running the old version 9.

I dutifully ran the Adobe Flash uninstaller the version from December 3, and then went back to the tester page to see what it had done.

The ActiveX version for Internet Explorer was successfully removed, but the Firefox plug-in version remained. I cleared the Firefox cache, rebooted and tested again. Still, the Adobe tester page reported that Firefox was using the old version. I got a second opinion from the Secunia Software Inspector: it said there was no plug-in version of Flash. Who to believe, Adobe or Secunia? My first guess was to believe Secunia since all they do is look for files in folders, a simple process that shouldn't break.

Lo and behold, Firefox was able to display the Flash-based ads. Both the Adobe uninstaller and Secunia had failed to locate the copy of the Flash player that Firefox was using.

Nice work, guys. To find out where, I ran a Secunia "thorough system inspection," something I suggested at the end of my previous posting. A portable version of Firefox on the M disk was using Flash version 9. At this point I figured I'd just install the new Flash player and be on my way to the next machine. The install ran successfully as shown above I can't show all the messages because the window is not re-sizeable. I cleared the Firefox cache and restarted the browser.

You could have knocked me over with a feather when the Adobe tester still showed that Firefox was using the old version 9. Determined not to be defeated by Adobe's incompetence at the simple task of installing and uninstalling its own software, I renamed the NPSWF This I truly did not expect.

After all, I had uninstalled the Flash player, installed it successfully and renamed the file it might have been picking up by mistake. Despite all this, it kept using the old version. But from where? Can you guess? Fortunately there was no need to guess. A picture is worth a thousand words, so take a look at the screenshot of Process Explorer above. Now I'm annoyed with Mozilla, too. Adobe bug: Its uninstaller program did not uninstall the Flash player being used by Firefox. It missed the player used by both the normally installed copy of Firefox and by two portable versions of Firefox.

Secunia bug: Firefox was using an old buggy version of the Flash player, but its regular inspector didn't find any instance of Flash to report on, let alone object to. Firefox bug: There should be one and only one location that Firefox uses for plug-ins. The use of two folders for plug-ins fooled both Secunia and Adobe.

Not to mention the nine bugs in the Flash player that kicked off this endeavor. It works for everyone else, why not for Flash? All this is made even worse by the fact that Flash and Firefox are mature, popular products.



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