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Bug 709522 - www-client/firefox-72.0.2 with www-plugins/adobe-flash does not use flash player plugin
Summary: www-client/firefox-72.0.2 with www-plugins/adobe-flash does not use flash pla...
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 705940
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal normal (vote)
Assignee: Mozilla Gentoo Team
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Reported: 2020-02-13 20:09 UTC by far jump
Modified: 2020-03-18 18:32 UTC (History)
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Description far jump 2020-02-13 20:09:14 UTC 
After doing emerge -DNu world firefox-bin thinks adobe flash is no longer installed

1. firefox and adobe flash were working perfectly before emerge
2. if I mask firefox and downgrade to v 68.4.2 adobe flash starts working again
3. this happens on all my linux boxes

*  www-client/firefox-bin
      Latest version available: 72.0.2
      Latest version installed: 72.0.2
      Size of files: 64,794 KiB
      Homepage:      https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/
      Description:   Firefox Web Browser
      License:       MPL-2.0 GPL-2 LGPL-2.1

*  www-plugins/adobe-flash
      Latest version available: 32.0.0.330
      Latest version installed: 32.0.0.330
      Size of files: 18,121 KiB
      Homepage:      https://www.adobe.com/products/...
      Description:   Adobe Flash Player
      License:       AdobeFlash-11.x
Comment 1 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2020-02-13 20:56:29 UTC 
Didn't they remove support for that or disable it by default at some point?
Comment 2 far jump 2020-02-13 21:09:12 UTC 
yes, Mozilla says after v69 its deactivated by default.  They instruct you to go to plugins and activate it.  But firefox shows the plugin is not even installed - however gentoo shows that it is installed
Comment 3 Fab 2020-03-18 16:29:24 UTC 
Confirmed. Firefox-bin installed. Adobe-flash also. Firefox is not able to see flash. That's really great when you need to use flash urgently.
Comment 4 Fab 2020-03-18 17:29:32 UTC 
After 1 hour of research (urgently we said), the only workaround I found was to install www-client/google-chrome and configure it to allow execution of the flash plugin on the fly on a specific website.
Comment 5 Jory A. Pratt gentoo-dev 2020-03-18 18:32:48 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 705940 ***