Firefox 34.05 incorrectly identifies plugins as out-of-date

As of midnight 12/12/14, Firefox started blocking plugins (in this case, Adobe Flash and Java Deployment Toolkit, possibly others as I've just been to websites that use those), saying that they're out of date. When I click on "Update Now," the Plugin Status page tells me that all my plugins are up to date. (I'm currently running Flash 15.0.0.239 and Java Deployment Toolkit 10.71.2.14, for the record.)
I get the point of this feature, and I really don't want to permanently turn on "always allow," but having to click two "allow" prompts every time I load a website that features Flash is quickly making web browsing intolerable. I'm on the verge of switching to Google Chrome over this.

''Rakeh [[#answer-666122|said]]''
<blockquote>
I did that too, as a first thing. The firefox now even says "Shockwave flash 11,2,202,425" in the plugins list.
UNFORTUNATELY, it still displays the vulnerable plugin message (both at various websites and at the plugin list) even though I apparently have the latest version.
</blockquote>
Try this:
Stop firefox
Edit ~/.mozilla/firefox/*.default/pluginreg.dat
Replace "11,2,202,425" with "11.2.202.425"
This seemed to fix it for me.

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