Re: [Gnash-dev] firefox warning to update flash player

[dolphinling]

Rob Savoye wrote:
> On 09/14/09 16:44, John Riesen wrote:
> > Firefox has started warning about out of date plugins.  Using Firefox 
> > 3.5.3
> > + gnash-plugin-0.8.5-3 (on Fedora 11), it now warns that:
>
>   Change the version number Gnash uses to tell Firefox it's the flash 
> plugin. In your $HOME/.gnashrc file you can set this to match Adobe:
>
> set flashVersionString LNX 10,0,12,36
>
>  This is also setable via the Edit->Preferences menu. My gut feeling is 
> this will now force people to constantely update their version string 
> for Gnash, which will become a constant hassle. It's pretty obvious that 
> the Mozilla Foundation doesn't really care about anyone but their 
> corporate funding partners. The funny part is they did this because of 
> all the security problems with Adobe's plugin.

I think the more likely scenario is that none of the people who developed the 
update feature use gnash, so it just didn't occur to them.

There's already a bug filed: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=516166


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