Any alternative for the Firefox plug-in 'Adobe Flash Player'?

Dale Trombley buzzmandt at gmail.com
Thu Jul 16 18:52:24 UTC 2015


For what it's worth chrome works just fine and dandy
On Jul 16, 2015 2:46 PM, "O. Sinclair" <o.sinclair at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 16/07/2015 17:12, Bas Roufs wrote:
> > Hello Everybody,
> >
> >
> > ever since a few days, the Firefox plug in 'Adobe Flash Player' is
> > causing problems. When visiting Facebook or any other website with video
> > content, I get information like this:
> >
> > /'Firefox has prevented the unsafe plugin 'Adobe Flash' from running on
> > www.facebook.com <http://www.facebook.com>.'
> > /
> > When clicking for more info, I arrive at this page:
> > https://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/
> >
> > A page from where it is apparently possible to download a newer? version
> > of this plug-in. However, I prefer to use some flash package from one of
> > the regular repositories.
> >
> > At that page, Adobe writes the following:
> >
> > /'(...) Adobe Flash Player 11.2 will be the last version to target Linux
> > as a supported platform. Adobe will continue to provide security
> > backports to Flash Player 11.2 for Linux.(...)'./
> >
> > To be honest, if Adobe does not continue any more development of his
> > flash player for Linux, I would prefer using some alternative that
> > continues to be maintained and developed. Do you know any alternative
> > with a similar functionality, allowing me to get rid of Adobe Flash
> Player?
> >
>
> Btw the only alternative I know of is Gnash (Gnu Flash Player) but I
> have never used it myself and have no idea of how good/bad it is
>
>
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