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Title: Iceweasle and flash issue
Post by: xendistar on January 31, 2015, 11:01:20 AM
Everytime I visit a new web page which has flash app's  on it keep telling me my flash is old and to update flash and confirm that I want to run the flash app, how can I get it to stop asking and just run flash without asking, it is becoming a pain in the rear...........
Title: Re: Iceweasle and flash issue
Post by: pavroo on January 31, 2015, 01:24:55 PM
It's not an issue, it's security check.
Firefox found that you have out-of-date flash plugin installed.
Title: Re: Iceweasle and flash issue
Post by: way12go on January 31, 2015, 01:47:13 PM
Best thing to do is, use Google Chrome .deb
Title: Re: Iceweasle and flash issue
Post by: MoroS on January 31, 2015, 05:42:14 PM
Quote from: pavroo on January 31, 2015, 01:24:55 PM
It's not an issue, it's security check.
Firefox found that you have out-of-date flash plugin installed.
Sadly Adobe doesn't provide any updates for Linux anymore (the NPAPI/Netscape-compatible version). It's stuck at 11.2 (might still supply some security fixes, but not for long now). The only browser that has an up-to-date Flash plugin is Google Chrome, which uses PPAPI version of Flash, which still is supported by Adobe.
Title: Re: Iceweasle and flash issue
Post by: xendistar on January 31, 2015, 06:54:03 PM
I am well aware of Adobe non support of flash in Linux but up until about a week ago I was using Firefox (with another distro) and I never had an issue with playing flash, it just go on and played it no warning message's nothing. Is this something that has just brought in or just something common to Iceweasel??
Title: Re: Iceweasle and flash issue
Post by: seppalta on January 31, 2015, 08:50:31 PM
There are several modern, good alternatives to the trouble-ridden iceweasel-firefox duo.   See http://lxlinux.com/#2 for names and links.
Title: Re: Iceweasle and flash issue
Post by: luki on January 31, 2015, 10:19:49 PM
I believe there are ways to install pepperflash for firefox too, i just dont know how :D
Title: Re: Iceweasle and flash issue
Post by: MoroS on January 31, 2015, 10:43:33 PM
Quote from: luki on January 31, 2015, 10:19:49 PM
I believe there are ways to install pepperflash for firefox too, i just dont know how :D
Indeed, there is. There's a "PPAPI host" NPAPI plugin available, but it's still experimental and requires manual building. I'm still setting up my new development environment, so I can't make a quick DEB package, yet. For those interested in trying to build it themselves, here's the link to the project: https://github.com/i-rinat/freshplayerplugin (description at the bottom of the page)
Title: Re: Iceweasle and flash issue
Post by: one23 on April 05, 2015, 10:06:43 AM
Has anyone tried pepper flash? Flash didn't work in latest Opera and installing it helped.

If anyone wish to give it a go, try

sudo apt-get install pepperflashplugin-nonfree
Title: Re: Iceweasle and flash issue
Post by: way12go on April 05, 2015, 10:33:47 AM
Pepper flash is available in synaptic package manager. The problem is, there are no more updates for flash player outside Google Chrome built in plugin.
Title: Re: Iceweasle and flash issue
Post by: one23 on April 05, 2015, 12:10:45 PM
Quote from: way12go on April 05, 2015, 10:33:47 AM
Pepper flash is available in synaptic package manager. The problem is, there are no more updates for flash player outside Google Chrome built in plugin.

I was suggesting to use pepper flash instead of Adobe's plugin
Title: Re: Iceweasle and flash issue
Post by: way12go on April 05, 2015, 01:19:01 PM
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.
Title: Re: Iceweasle and flash issue
Post by: Lizbeth on April 18, 2015, 12:04:54 AM
Go to here and install pipeligjt for Debian Jesse.   http://pipelight.net/cms/install/installation-debian.html

You can install flash, silverlight, widevine...whatever you need.  I have it installed in open box 4.0 rc3 and it works like a charm.  Didn't even need the spoofer to trick the websites into thinking I'm using windows to use the flash 17 that pipelight supplies.


Enjoy!
Title: Re: Iceweasle and flash issue
Post by: way12go on April 18, 2015, 02:08:40 PM
Quotehttp://pipelight.net/cms/install/installation-debian.html

Thanks.


It took 3 hours for me to install all plugins and 5 minutes copy and install all those plugins in Desktop to Laptop.

Desktop around 3 hours and copy .wine-pipelight to Laptop and it took 5 minutes in Laptop.
Title: Re: Iceweasle and flash issue
Post by: cynclida on April 29, 2015, 10:29:06 AM
Has anyone tried lightspark and browser-plugin-lightspark?
Title: Re: Iceweasle and flash issue
Post by: Lizbeth on April 29, 2015, 05:50:10 PM
Quote from: luki on January 31, 2015, 10:19:49 PM
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.
Title: Re: Iceweasle and flash issue
Post by: Lizbeth on April 29, 2015, 05:54:12 PM
You are welcome.


Lightspark seems like a well worthy idea.  I hope they succeed.
Title: Re: Iceweasle and flash issue
Post by: one23 on May 10, 2015, 04:58:50 PM
Quote from: way12go on April 05, 2015, 01:19:01 PM
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. 
Title: Re: Iceweasle and flash issue
Post by: Lizbeth on May 17, 2015, 07:55:48 AM
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
Title: Re: Iceweasle and flash issue
Post by: way12go on May 17, 2015, 07:59:47 AM
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
Title: Re: Iceweasle and flash issue
Post by: way12go on May 17, 2015, 08:13:15 AM
http://pipelight.net/cms/install/installation-debian.html

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