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Several minutes ago I downloaded the latest version of Flash Player from the Adobe website and installed it. When I open a page with flash content, like Youtube, Firefox still pops up a message that I have an older version of Flash that is not supported. What to do?

Harmster
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  • which is the flash version installed ? – green frog Jul 12 '15 at 07:08
  • It says: 11.2.202.481ubuntu0.14.04.1 – Harmster Jul 12 '15 at 07:13
  • You have the latest version. Adobe will no longer have updates for flash player under Linux. Form Adobe's website: NOTE: Adobe Flash Player 11.2 will be the last version to target Linux as a supported platform. Adobe will continue to provide security backports to Flash Player 11.2 for Linux. – Mitch Jul 12 '15 at 07:20
  • As a workaround I installed the Fresh Player Plugin, works like a charm. http://www.webupd8.org/2014/05/install-fresh-player-plugin-in-ubuntu.html – Harmster Jul 12 '15 at 07:48
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    possible duplicate of [Adobe Flash Plugin is vulnerable/outdated in 14.04 but there is no update in Firefox](http://askubuntu.com/questions/562035/adobe-flash-plugin-is-vulnerable-outdated-in-14-04-but-there-is-no-update-in-fir) – DJCrashdummy Jul 13 '15 at 12:31

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Install Pepper Flash Plugin instead of Adobe Flash

sudo apt-get install pepperflashplugin-nonfree
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  • After doing this it looks like Firefox continues to use the Adobe Flash plugin. How do I get Firefox to use the new pepper flash plugin? – gene_wood Jul 14 '15 at 17:50
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you mention using firefox. to my knowledge, pepperflash is a plugin designed for use in chrome and chromium browsers, not firefox. there are those who say "freshplayer" is a wrapper to allow pepperflash to be used, but i have not tested it... http://www.webupd8.org/2014/05/fresh-player-plugin-pepper-flash.html good luck

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