Fedora Linux – Firefox blocks outdated Adobe Flash solution

Symptom

You may experience a problems when loading website’s flash components as Firefox refuses to load them. This is because your flash plugin is out of date and needs update.

blocked flash plugin firefox

Solution

In order to fix this problem you need to update Adobe Flash plugin. On Fedora linux this procedure is simple as running a single yum command:

# yum update flash-plugin
...
Running transaction (shutdown inhibited)
  Updating   : flash-plugin-11.2.202.425-release.x86_64 1/2 
  Cleanup    : flash-plugin-11.2.202.378-release.x86_64 2/2 
  Verifying  : flash-plugin-11.2.202.425-release.x86_64 1/2 
  Verifying  : flash-plugin-11.2.202.378-release.x86_64 2/2 

Updated:
  flash-plugin.x86_64 0:11.2.202.425-release                                                                                                                            

Complete!