[Bug 965537] New: Firefox needs Flash update
http://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=965537 Bug ID: 965537 Summary: Firefox needs Flash update Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE Distribution Version: Leap 42.1 Hardware: Other OS: Other Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Firefox Assignee: bnc-team-mozilla@forge.provo.novell.com Reporter: peterm.eller@yahoo.de QA Contact: qa-bugs@suse.de Found By: --- Blocker: --- Impossible to look a lot of videos. ZATTOO.COM et al needs Flash 64-bit update for Firefox -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.
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--- Comment #1 from Peter Meller
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Andreas Stieger
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Peter Meller
Starting with openSUSE Leap 42.1, openSUSE no longer ships the Adobe Flash Player. Most users will want to discontinue it's use anyway. Users can still make use of the chromium-pepper-flash package (firefox users will also need to install the freshplayerplugin package) which may be available in a community repository like packman. You may also enable the "Adobe Flash" community repository in YaST if you require legacy flash.
################################ This is on of the decisions which is absolutely not understandable, at least for me. I predict: this will cost openSuse a lot of users. It's the same arrogance that Debian Linux had to experience in the past, too. A lot of people included me are looking for a simple system beside the military industrial information complex incl. Microsoft. And what do you do? You send these users straight to them! I had already crashed two Debian installations, and I'm afraid I will crash Leap 42.1, too, due of your decision. So I urge you: think this over. Support the automatic Flash installation furthermore or at least let the user decide what he wants to have and offer him a software driven possibility to choose. Thank you for reading. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.
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Andreas Stieger
A lot of people included me are looking for a simple system beside the military industrial information complex incl. Microsoft.
Also are you aware that Adobe Flash is a binary blob of non-free software, fundamentally incompatible with FLOSS principles?
And what do you do? You send these users straight to them!
Adobe Flash is available for users that want it in a trivial install via a third party repository.
I had already crashed two Debian installations, and I'm afraid I will crash Leap 42.1, too, due of your decision.
The bug summary sais that an Adobe Flash update is required. We simply do not ship it, therefore we cannot update it. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.
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Peter Meller
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Andreas Stieger
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