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From: Peter Hayes on 7 May 2010 08:37 I made a mistake of looking at the Microsoft silverlight plugin. My user seems to be stuck on one version even though I've updated. about:plugins shows (after changing the option to show full path) Silverlight Plug-In File: /Library/Internet Plug-Ins/Silverlight.plugin Version: 2.0.31005.0 2.0.31005.0 MIME Type Description Suffixes Enabled application/x-silverlight Microsoft Silverlight xaml Yes application/x-silverlight-2 Microsoft Silverlight xaml Yes Doing get info on the file listed above says it is version 4.0.50401.0 Switch to another user (both users have admin rights) about:plugins shows version 4.0.50401.0. Any idea how to clear this. I cannot find anything obvious in ~/Library Pete H
From: Chris Ridd on 7 May 2010 09:09 On 2010-05-07 13:37:28 +0100, Peter Hayes said: > I made a mistake of looking at the Microsoft silverlight plugin. My > user seems to be stuck on one version even though I've updated. > > about:plugins shows (after changing the option to show full path) > > Silverlight Plug-In > > File: /Library/Internet Plug-Ins/Silverlight.plugin > Version: 2.0.31005.0 > 2.0.31005.0 > > MIME Type Description Suffixes Enabled > application/x-silverlight Microsoft Silverlight xaml Yes > application/x-silverlight-2 Microsoft Silverlight xaml Yes > > Doing get info on the file listed above says it is > > version 4.0.50401.0 > > > Switch to another user (both users have admin rights) about:plugins > shows version 4.0.50401.0. > > Any idea how to clear this. I cannot find anything obvious in ~/Library You could get him to access some page using Silverlight eg <http://research.microsoft.com/apps/tools/tuva/index.html> and then see what plugins Firefox has opened. First, find Firefox's pid: ps -eaf | grep -i firefox Then look at the files opened by that pid: lsof -p <type pid here> | grep -i silverlight You can do something similar in Safari, except the plugins are actually opened by a separate process called WebKitPluginHost. -- Chris
From: Peter Hayes on 7 May 2010 13:45 On 07/05/2010 14:09, Chris Ridd wrote: > On 2010-05-07 13:37:28 +0100, Peter Hayes said: > >> I made a mistake of looking at the Microsoft silverlight plugin. My >> user seems to be stuck on one version even though I've updated. >> >> about:plugins shows (after changing the option to show full path) >> >> Silverlight Plug-In >> >> File: /Library/Internet Plug-Ins/Silverlight.plugin >> Version: 2.0.31005.0 >> 2.0.31005.0 >> >> MIME Type Description Suffixes Enabled >> application/x-silverlight Microsoft Silverlight xaml Yes >> application/x-silverlight-2 Microsoft Silverlight xaml Yes >> >> Doing get info on the file listed above says it is >> >> version 4.0.50401.0 >> >> >> Switch to another user (both users have admin rights) about:plugins >> shows version 4.0.50401.0. >> >> Any idea how to clear this. I cannot find anything obvious in ~/Library > > You could get him to access some page using Silverlight eg > <http://research.microsoft.com/apps/tools/tuva/index.html> and then see > what plugins Firefox has opened. > > First, find Firefox's pid: > > ps -eaf | grep -i firefox > > Then look at the files opened by that pid: > > lsof -p <type pid here> | grep -i silverlight > > You can do something similar in Safari, except the plugins are actually > opened by a separate process called WebKitPluginHost. > Silverlight does not show from lsof or ps with either user, I'm an experienced Unix user so knew ps but lsof. Guess I'll not worry about it and ignore the update warning for silverlight as I'm not really interested in it. Pete H
From: Chris Ridd on 7 May 2010 13:49 On 2010-05-07 18:45:26 +0100, Peter Hayes said: > Silverlight does not show from lsof or ps with either user, I'm an > experienced Unix user so knew ps but lsof. Guess I'll not worry about > it and ignore the update warning for silverlight as I'm not really > interested in it. And despite Firefox not having anything opened with Silverlight in the name, it plays Silverlight "things"? Perhaps repeat the lsof, and look through the results by hand instead of using grep. -- Chris
From: Peter Hayes on 7 May 2010 14:07
On 07/05/2010 18:49, Chris Ridd wrote: > On 2010-05-07 18:45:26 +0100, Peter Hayes said: > >> Silverlight does not show from lsof or ps with either user, I'm an >> experienced Unix user so knew ps but lsof. Guess I'll not worry about >> it and ignore the update warning for silverlight as I'm not really >> interested in it. > > And despite Firefox not having anything opened with Silverlight in the > name, it plays Silverlight "things"? Perhaps repeat the lsof, and look > through the results by hand instead of using grep. > By the way thanks for the link to tuva, the Feynman lecture videos take me back to the late 1960s when I was studying Physics at Manchester, wish I'd kept the Lectures in Physics books - worth a bit now. Pete H |