Iceweasle and flash issue

[Lizbeth]

I believe there are ways to install pepperflash for firefox too, i just dont know how :D

pipelight for debian uses windows flash with drm support.  requires wine 32 bit libraries.  install this after installing steam if you use steam for gaming or steam wont run.

freshplayer use linux pepperflash inside firefox but has no drm support as hal will not work with pepperflash in linux to provide drm support

both option are discused at webupd8.org for more info.

[Lizbeth]

You are welcome.


Lightspark seems like a well worthy idea.  I hope they succeed.

[one23]

And I thought pepper flash is also out dated. I thought Google Chrome based flash player is the only flash player that receives future updates.

I am not sure about it. I don't use Chromium or Chrome.
I wish that damn flash disappear once for good. 

[Lizbeth]

pepperflash isnt outdated.  Its the only flash for linux available natively and only comes with chrome.  it can be installed from the command line and will run on chromium but it will not work with mozilla based browsers.

sudo apt-get install pepperflasplugin-nonfree chromium

[way12go]

http://www.binarytides.com/better-xubuntu-14-04/

4. Install flash player

Google Chrome has adobe flash player inbuilt, so you do not need to install flash player separately. The latest adobe flash plugin now runs inside Google Chrome using the Pepper API. The pepper api allows plugins to run entirely inside the browser without any dependency on the underlying OS. This means that you always get the uptodate flash plugin inside Google Chrome.

Check the plugin version and files by opening the following url in google chrome

chrome://plugins

Click "Details" on top right and then search for flash on the page.

Adobe Flash Player (2 files) - Version: 13.0.0.182
Shockwave Flash 13.0 r0
Name:   Shockwave Flash
Description:   Shockwave Flash 13.0 r0
Version:   13.0.0.182
Location:   /opt/google/chrome/PepperFlash/libpepflashplayer.so
Type:   PPAPI (out-of-process)

libpepflashplayer.so indicates Pepper API based flash player. We can see that the latest version (13.0.0.182 at the time of this post) of flash is installed.

For Chromium browser installed the pepperflash package. It will download chrome browser and extract the pepperflash files and installed it for chromium.

$ sudo apt-get install pepperflashplugin-nonfree

For Mozilla Firefox we need to install the native flash player plugin for linux.

$ sudo apt-get install flashplugin-installer

In Firefox open the url "about:plugins" to check details about the installed plugins. Search for flash. libflashplayer.so indicates the native flash player.

Now that the native flash player does not receive updates (except security updates) anymore. Version 11.2.202.350 was the last release. More details here.

https://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/

Linux    Mozilla, Firefox - NPAPI (Extended Support Release)    11.2.202.460
Chrome (embedded), Chromium-based browsers - PPAPI    17.0.0.188

[way12go]

http://pipelight.net/cms/install/installation-debian.html

Install latest flash player plugin in Linux for firefox and iceweasel, the Windows version...