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Firefox 29 on Linux: no Flash (28 works fine)

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I'm very impressed with the new Firefox 29, but I'm wondering how long until Flash will be working. All across the web I see "Would you like to install the plugin needed to view content on this page?" and if I click yes, it pops up a window saying "No plugins found." I still have Firefox 28 installed and it works fine. I thought this was just a time-biding issue, but as I've searched around I'm starting to doubt. Solution?

Running Firefox 29 on Fedora 20.

I'm very impressed with the new Firefox 29, but I'm wondering how long until Flash will be working. All across the web I see "Would you like to install the plugin needed to view content on this page?" and if I click yes, it pops up a window saying "No plugins found." I still have Firefox 28 installed and it works fine. I thought this was just a time-biding issue, but as I've searched around I'm starting to doubt. Solution? Running Firefox 29 on Fedora 20.

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I have been able to work around it, but I'm open for better solutions. Here's what I did:

I never uninstalled the built-in Firefox 28 (and 29 hasn't made it to repos); so all files are in the same location except that I replaced /usr/bin/firefox with the one from the new Firefox (of course, backing-up the old one).

I found the (old) plugins in /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/ I copied all of them into ~/.mozilla/plugins (which already existed, but was empty).

The plugins include:

The problem seems to be fixed now.

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I have been able to work around it, but I'm open for better solutions. Here's what I did:

I never uninstalled the built-in Firefox 28 (and 29 hasn't made it to repos); so all files are in the same location except that I replaced /usr/bin/firefox with the one from the new Firefox (of course, backing-up the old one).

I found the (old) plugins in /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/ I copied all of them into ~/.mozilla/plugins (which already existed, but was empty).

The plugins include:

The problem seems to be fixed now.