Post by William UnruhPost by Doug LaidlawThe Flash plugin has been found to be full of security
holes. Firefox won't let me use it unless I insist. Is there
a replacement? I think there is gnash, and Cauldron
were trying to install something alongside Flash.
Dependency conflicts prevented it for a few days.
I think Adobe has abandoned flash for Linux so no upgrades.
Chrome however does have a special relation ship which Adobe, and
apparently it still gets flash updates.
Adobe started issuing Flash upgrades, a few months ago, in both NPAPI
(Firefox) and PPAPI (Chrome) versions, with version 24.x.x. Just a few
days ago, Adobe released version 25.x.x. When Firefox detected a version
increase like that, it automatically generated the error message.
If you are running an updated Cauldron, and got your Flash plugin from
the repos, you would have the updated version. (Be aware that the
Cauldron version is the PPAPI "Pepper" version, and will install the
freshplayer plugin to run it with Firefox.)
If you are running Mageia 5, and you installed the player from the
repos, the latest version there is still 24.0.0.194. I don't see version
25.x.x in the list of packages released to QA for testing, so for some
reason it must not be ready yet. No doubt it is in the pipeline. If you
do not wish to wait, see the next paragraph.
If you downloaded the player directly from Adobe, you have to download
and install the proper update yourself. It isn't difficult, but you will
have to keep track of when new updates come along yourself.
TJ