flashplugin-installer

[Petter Adsen]

On Wed, 11 Nov 2015 05:37:48 -0500
Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:

> On Wednesday 11 November 2015 03:35:24 Petter Adsen wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 9 Nov 2015 08:43:58 -0500
> >
> > Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:  
> > > On Monday 09 November 2015 04:00:52 Petter Adsen wrote:  
> > > > On Mon, 9 Nov 2015 03:23:06 -0500
> > > >
> > > > Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:  
> > > > > On Monday 09 November 2015 03:09:13 Petter Adsen wrote:  
> > > > > > I'm not sure why you are getting the dialog on whether or
> > > > > > not to allow the playing of Flash content, is it possible
> > > > > > that you have enabled click-to-play for Flash?  
> > > > >
> > > > > Not to my knowledge.  Where/how is that to be checked on ?  
> > > >
> > > > Open "about:addons", click "Plugins", see if Shockwave Flash is
> > > > set to "Ask to Activate". If it is, try "Always Activate".  
> > >
> > > Two choices, always ask, disable
> > >  
> > > > There is also a setting in about:config that's called
> > > > plugins.click_to_play, but I can't tell you how these two
> > > > settings interact. It should probably be set to "false" if you
> > > > want autoplay, though.  
> > >
> > > That didn't help either.  
> >
> > After reading some Mozilla documentation, the latter of these
> > settings seem to affect what is visible in the first one, so you
> > could try to toggle it and see if it changes.
> >
> > But the dialog you get above does not jive with what is in later
> > Firefox versions, so I'm guessing you are using Iceweasel. In that
> > case, all bets are off, and I can't help you. You really should
> > check the mailing list thread I referenced earlier, as it contained
> > a lot of useful info, and will help you more than an Ubuntu list
> > can.
> >
> > You could also try to download the latest, plain Firefox from
> > Mozilla, and see if you have better luck with that. Any
> > documentation you can find will at least be more likely to help.
> >  
> > > Flash claims it was updated just in august, is version
> > > 11.2.202.508  
> >
> > It updated today here on Wily, so there should be one in Debian
> > also.
> >
> > Petter  
> 
> Synaptic can't find it. I did note that pepperflash is installed, but
> I never see anything trying to use it.  Softlink missing? IDK.

The pepperflashplugin package is intended to be used with Chromium, not
Firefox. Why there is no Flash update available for Debian, I can't help
you with.

Petter

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