(On) 2016-03-22 -0700 à (at) 10:03:03 Keith Lofstrom écrivit (wrote): --
> Is there a way to TURN OFF Firefox "flash is insecure" nagging,
> or FORCE "Always Activate" when it is grayed out in about:addons?

On Wed, 23 Mar 2016, Franchisseur Robert wrote:
>      I  had  the  same  issue and I put the following  line  in  my
>      ~/.bash_logout
>
>      \rm $HOME/.mozilla/firefox/XXXXXXXXX.default/pluginreg.dat

On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 08:23:52AM +0000, Andrew C Aitchison wrote:
> I am, however, uneasy about simply removing the file completely, as
> that removes all the user's plugin customizations; so if they have
> disabled any plugins they may be reenabled.

Thanks for all the help!  There's good people here :-)

Andrew is right, there is a lot of config stuff in pluginreg.dat.  
Proverb: "don't throw the baby out with the bathwater." 

I'm trying a hack on one of the machines.  I found these lines
in pluginreg.dat:
 
   ...
   libflashplayer.so:$
   /usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so:$
   11.2.202.577:$
   1456079269000:0:0:0:$
   Shockwave Flash 11.2 r202:$
   ...

As an experiment, I changed "11.2.202.577" to "11.9.999.999",
without changing anything else.  Firefox and flash still run,
and the flash player test on the Adobe website still reports
11.2.202.577 .  Firefox about:addons reports 11.9.999.999 but
does not complain about it. 

I'll report what happens when the next flash upgrade occurs,
probably in a week or two, given Adobe's bug-churn rate.

If everything still works, I will write a script that patches
all the pluginreg.dat files it can locate, on all the machines
(after backups, of course).

Keith

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