[lubuntu-users] Firefox playing flash

[Andre Campos Rodovalho]

> It might be good to see if you *need* to use flash before installing it.


I Agree. Not all websites use HTML5 tecnology to play videos and animation.
But most popular services have already migrated to avoid the flash pain...

2016-07-17 9:31 GMT-03:00 Israel <israeldahl at gmail.com>:

> On 07/16/2016 01:02 PM, Ian Bruntlett wrote:
>
> Hi Aere & Jorn,
>
> On 16 July 2016 at 18:55, Aere Greenway <Aere at dvorak-keyboards.com> wrote:
>
>> There is a package in the Ubuntu repository called
>> flashplugin-instcaller, which (after you install it) will install the
>> flash-plugin version for Linux on your machine, which then works in
>> FireFox.
>>
>> I have been using that successfully on all of my machines, and to my
>> knowledge, with no problems.
>>
>
> Thanks for that.
>
> BW,
>
>
> Ian
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> Hi, just a few quick notes.
>
> flashplugin-instcaller is actually called flashplugin-installer (minor
> typo)
> Also, many things use HTML5 video now.  YouTube defaults to HTML5 video,
> for example.
>
> It might be good to see if you *need* to use flash before installing it.
>
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