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

Sergio casser at vodafone.it
Mon Jul 20 20:25:30 UTC 2015


Hi Bus,
you could give a try to piperlight 
(http://wiki.ubuntu-it.org/InternetRete/Navigazione/Pipelight) to use 
windows version of flash and silverlight.
You have to remember to completely uninstall flashplayer before install 
pipelight.
Bye.
Sergio


Il 16/07/2015 17:12, Bas Roufs ha scritto:
> 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?
>
> Respectfully yours,
> Bas G. Roufs.
>
>
>
>
>
> -- 
>
> Bas G. Roufs
>
> Utrecht, NL, E. BasRoufs at gmail.com <mailto:BasRoufs at gmail.com>; Mob. 
> +31 6 446 835 10;
>
>
>
>

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/kubuntu-users/attachments/20150720/eb19dfff/attachment.html>


More information about the kubuntu-users mailing list