Problem with latest PM 25.2.1 and flash player on Arch

[mozart78]

Hello, this problem appears with the last update of PM. Now I can't use flash player at all. It says that "Shockwave Flash is known to be vulnerable and should be updated".



When I try to watch videos via flash player or try to play flash based browser games, it says that I have to have flash player at least version 10. I installed fresh player pepper mint wrapper and there aren't problems at all, but let resolve this issue. Some people on my forum can't manage to install that wrapper and they are frustrated with this error. On Linux Mint this issue doesn't exist. I try FF on Arch and there isn't any problem there, it works. Only in Pale Moon latest version on Arch

[Uppity]

I have the same problem.
Shockwave Flash Player is blocked by Mozilla.

It shows up to date, but the version numbers are delimited with commas vs. dots.
When I close the blocking message, only a white screen is left.

I can watch embedded youtube video, but not from the youtube site.

Firefox is showing up to date and is not blocked.

[backi]

Hi !
Encountered the same problem even after installing newest flashplugin.
Found out this.
1. You dont have to use a Flashblocker (inactivate it )
2. If you are on a side which requires Flash far example YouTube look at the Navigation Toolbar left corner there you find a small flash symbol.....
right mouse click it it comes "Palemoon has prevented the outdated plugin "Adabe Flash" from running on.........."
choose "Allow now " or "Allow and remember" .
Should work .
If any further questions...here to help !
Cheers !

[Moonchild]

I've adjusted the blocklist, as there seems to be a overzealous match for Linux at the moment. It shouldn't cause a match but the parsing of that XML is rather opaque so it's possible there's a bug in there somewhere if a version range matches even if the file name doesn't.

Next time the blocklist is pulled down (usually within a day) this should resolve itself.

[mozart78]

Thank you Moonchild. We'll wait

[layingback]

Problem may be a bit wider than this. I'm on Ubuntu-Mate (both 14.04 and 14.10).

Using 251 and latest 252 and - presumably - your latest blocklist, I now get a correct Up_To_Date status when I run Check you plugins are up to date from About Plugins. Which is a step forward from a few days ago.

However ... I still get This plugin is vulnerable and should be updated if I try to actually use Flash.

I believe the blocklist is now up to date to the latest because a) I now pass the Plugins check which I didn't before, and b) I changed the blocklist update interval from 86400 to 40, closed Palemoon, waited a minute, restarted palemoon and so would expect that blocklist was updated if necessary. Is there a better way to check - or force - blocklist updates?

[mozart78]

Same here yet:

Shockwave Flash

File: libflashplayer.so
Path: /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
Version: 11,2,202,440
State: Enabled (STATE_VULNERABLE_UPDATE_AVAILABLE)
Shockwave Flash 11.2 r202

[Moonchild]

I've found the cause, and a solution - for a temp solution until the fix is in Pale Moon, please pull down a fresh copy of the blocklist which has a reverted plugins section to prevent these incorrect blocks.

[mozart78]

Thank you for fast and reliable support Moonchild

[Uppity]

I hope I'm not being dense, but
How do you pull down a fresh copy of the blocklist?

[CraigPD]

After deleting blocklist.xml from ~/.moonchild productions/pale moon/********.default/ it was magically regenerated within 2-3 hours. Possibly the deletion wasn't even necessary.

[Moonchild]

After deleting blocklist.xml from ~/.moonchild productions/pale moon/********.default/ it was magically regenerated within 2-3 hours. Possibly the deletion wasn't even necessary.

It wasn't "regenerated", it was fetched from the blocklist server
And not having it present in your profile will trigger a re-fetch quicker than letting it run the timer of 1 day.

[CraigPD]

It wasn't "regenerated", it was fetched from the blocklist server

Correction: regenerated as in new and improved.

[Uppity]

After deleting blocklist.xml from ~/.moonchild productions/pale moon/********.default/ it was magically regenerated within 2-3 hours. Possibly the deletion wasn't even necessary.

Thanks, Craig. I'm getting better with Linux.
It was in the second directory I checked...

[mozart78]

Problem solved, thank you:

[Crystallas]

Just out of curiosity, is there a reason to keep potentially conflicting plugins activated? I just renamed the */lib/adobe-flashplugin/libflashplayer.so to .so~/bak, etc. With fresh wrapper, you just need the pepper flash present.

[mozart78]

I uninstalled flashplayer already

[SivaMachina]

I think when you grab Freshplayerplugin from the AUR ...it already grabs pepper flash

[trava90]

Yes, it does.