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

O. Sinclair o.sinclair at gmail.com
Sat Jul 18 06:54:07 UTC 2015


On 18/07/2015 08:45, O. Sinclair wrote:
> On 17/07/2015 15:06, WMID wrote:
>> I solved this installing :
>>
>> Fresh Player Plugin Gets Hardware Accelerated Video Decoding Via VA-API
>> And VDPAU ~ Web Upd8: Ubuntu / Linux blog
>> http://www.webupd8.org/2015/06/fresh-player-plugin-gets-hardware.html
>>
>> 2015-07-17 0:55 GMT-05:00 Ralf Mardorf <kde.lists at yahoo.com
>> <mailto:kde.lists at yahoo.com>>:
>>
>>     On Thu, 16 Jul 2015 22:32:44 -0400 (EDT), accessys at smart.net
>>     <mailto:accessys at smart.net> wrote:
>>     >how "Temporarily" is temporarialy
>>
>>     As from 2017 "temporarily" will be eternity.
>>
>>     "Note about the future of flash on linux: In Feb 2012, Adobe announced
>>     that it is discontinuing its Flash Player for Linux as a standalone
>>     download as of version 11.2. Adobe will continue to provide security
>>     updates to the standalone Flash Player 11.2 on Linux for five years
>>     after its release (presumably 2017). Newer versions will only be
>>     available as part of Google Chrome browser. There are some open source
>>     alternatives. Read more at the links at bottom of this page." -
>>     http://www.mepis.org/docs/en/index.php?title=Flash
>>
> Thanks for the link! After much experimenting I managed, had to install
> Chrome instead of Chromium though. That does not bother me too much, am
> not a "gnu fanatic". I tried various links of how to get it to work w/o
> Chrome but failed all of them.
> 
> Sinclair
> 
A note though: it kills flash in Qupzilla totally and in Rekonq you get
just a black square. Rekonq I dont use any more but Qupzilla.. hm have
to think about this




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