Downgrade Flash 10 for WordPress Uploader

Posted on May 25, 2009 | Category: Browsers, Informational, Linux, Organizations, Resources, Web Applications

The upgrade from Flash 9 to Flash 10 broke many WordPress bulk file uploaders. I was included in the mix! When Adobe Flash was updated, the new programming language does not permit file uploads. Until Flash or WordPress comes up with a solution, you must downgrade Firefox (FF) to Flash 9 to retain your mass file uploader. Otherwsie, you have to use the browser media upload tool, which only allows 1 file at a time – very annoying. After searching many a post on the topic, I found a solution.

Start by checking the version of your FF Flash installation version by typing the following statement in your browser address bar.

about:plugins

It should display at the bottom of the page showing v.10.x.xx or something similar. Next, uninstall Flash 10. Open up terminal and type:

sudo apt-get purge flashplugin-nonfree
sudo apt-get autoremove
sudo apt-get clean

Next, download Flash 9 in terminal.

wget http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/current/flash-plugin-9.0.115.0-release.i386.rpm

Install alien and install the package.

sudo apt-get install alien
sudo alien -k flash-plugin-9.0.115.0-release.i386.rpm
sudo dpkg -i flash-plugin_9.0.115.0-release-1_i386.deb

The package is installed. The only thing to do is to move a copy of the libflashplayer.so to FF. Using terminal, move a copy of the file to your FF folder.