Comment 8 for bug 1165630

Of course that's an option. However, you cannot expect an average user to
do this and in my opinion this bug is about the outdated plugin from the
repositories. Mint should update this one as Mint 13 is still supported.
They choose to make their own flash dependencies instead of relying on
Ubuntu's flash plugin package....

On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 4:40 PM, Trapper <email address hidden> wrote:

> A deinstall is simple. Just go into synaptic and type in flashplugin.
> Completely uninstall any flashplugins that show as installed.
>
> If you are only interested in using the older plugin on a per user basis
> rather than system wide the easy way to do it is to extract
> libflashplayer.so from the flashplugin package you want to use . Then go
> to the /home/'username'/.mozilla/firefox/'profile-name' folder. There
> should be a plugins folder under it. Insert libflashplayer.so in the
> plugins folder.
>
> If the plugins folder does not exist, create one.
>
> /home/'username'/.mozilla/firefox/'profile-name'/plugins
>
> When you restart firefox it should recognize your flashplugin.
>
> As for Chrome. I am not getting it's newer flashplugin to work either.
>
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> Title:
> [mint-flashplugin-11] Firefox 20.0 blocks flash 11.0/11.1, update to
> 11.2
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