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I have installed the adobe-flashplugin package from the partners source and it worked straight away for Chromium. Firefox is stuck to the old Shockwave Flash 11.2 plugin, which I've disabled.

This page https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Chromium/Getting-Flash says the plugin should work for both browsers.

I'm on Ubuntu 15.04, Firefox 40.0.3

Are there any extra steps I need to take to add it to Firefox as well?

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11.2 is the latest Adobe Flash version maintained for Linux systems as far as I know... What version do you expect or what do you have for Chromium? I checked both flashplugin-installer which I had and adobe-flashplugin which you use and both show up as version 11.2 in Firefox for me. I don't have Chromium so I can't check how it looks there, but I would expect the same? – Byte Commander Sep 7 '15 at 10:36
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Chromium uses version 18.0 while Firefox uses version 11.2 so that is why I was wondering why there is a version mismatch even though both of them should be using the same plugin. – AnduA Sep 7 '15 at 11:16
    
As @ByteCommander said 11.2 is the available version for linux systems...you may use pipelight to use silverlight(instead of flash) in linux for similar features – Ravan Sep 7 '15 at 12:04
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I've managed to get it working in Firefox, thanks to @Manchot0's previous answer.

To get adobe-flashplugin you need to install it following the instructions here https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Chromium/Getting-Flash which will make it work straight away in Chromium and then install freshplayerplugin in order to add it to Firefox as well.

As Manchot0 mentioned, in order to install freshplayerplugin you have to do the following:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nilarimogard/webupd8
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install freshplayerplugin
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This keeps the 11.2 NPAPI (for Firefox) Flash version from adobe-flashplugin installed but adds its 13.1 PPAPI (for Chrome) Flash wrapped by freshplayerplugin to your Firefox... It's still not the latest version 18 unfortunately. – Byte Commander Sep 7 '15 at 12:40
    
I see. It's weird, adobe.com/software/flash/about tells me I have version 18.0.0.233 – AnduA Sep 7 '15 at 13:33
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Since adobe-flashplugin is no more supported by adobe the better solution is to use the pepper flash plugin for chromium :

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install pepperflashplugin-nonfree

and then install the freshplayer plugin to adapt pepperflash for firefox :

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nilarimogard/webupd8
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install freshplayerplugin

maybe you will have to activate the new plugin in firefox.

now you can remove adobe-flashplugin :

sudo apt-get remove adobe-flashplugin
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From wiki.ubuntu.com/Chromium/Getting-Flash: "As of 2015-05, the old "pepperflashplugin-nonfree" is deprecated in favor of an official, maintained, one-step package called adobe-flashplugin, which works for Firefox and Chromium and derivatives. No terminals, no multiverse. " That's why I thought adobe-flashplugin would be the right choice. – AnduA Sep 7 '15 at 11:18
    
Yes you are right, i didn't know they were a new official package, so it seems to be the better solution now. – Manchot0 Sep 7 '15 at 11:25

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