Il 25/10/2017 14:46, Lars Marowsky-Bree ha scritto:

On 2017-10-25T11:16:40, Patrick Shanahan wrote:

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Would like to know why Flash-Player videos are not working anymore on FF56 Linux (oS TW) instead they are perfectly working on FF56 Windows 10.

*This is one of the worst oddities I've faced so far...*

* Marco Calistri [10-25-17 10:44]: provide a site

Adobe's Test site itself: https://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/

[Parent 16989] WARNING: pipe error (247): Connection reset by peer: file /home/abuild/rpmbuild/BUILD/mozilla/ipc/chromium/src/chrome/common/ipc_channel_posix.cc, line 353 /usr/lib64/firefox/plugin-container: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib64/firefox/libxul.so: undefined symbol: gdk_screen_get_monitor_workarea

Thanks for your reply Lars. In my case to answer to Patrick, I see the warning message to "Update Flash Player" whenever I click on a Facebook attached video despite I already have the latest Flash Player plugin installed in FF56 so the issue is elsewhere on Tumbleweed. I'm confident of the fact FF is abandoning/not supporting Adobe Flash anymore in favor of HTML5 but as soon as I seen it perfectly warning on Windows FF version, I've remained very disappointed. Cheers, -- Marco Calistri -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org

Hello, Am Mittwoch, 25. Oktober 2017, 19:29:10 CEST schrieb Marco Calistri:

In my case to answer to Patrick, I see the warning message to "Update Flash Player" whenever I click on a Facebook attached video despite I already have the latest Flash Player plugin installed in FF56

Try to disable Flash Player in the firefox plugin settings - and I really mean to set it to "disabled" - "ask every time" won't work [1]. I know this sounds like a funny advise, so let me explain ;-) Many sites automatically switch to HTML5 video when they detect Flash Player isn't available. This detection is done based on headers your browser sends. I rarely view Facebook pages, but last time I did, I was able to play a video. I uninstalled Flash Player two years ago, so it obviously worked without Flash ;-) Oh, and I didn't miss Flash Player in the last two years ;-) - most pages I usually visit all switched to HTML5 video, and in the very rare case I can't see a video, youtube-dl helps. Regards, Christian Boltz [1] Last time I tested, Firefox did still send out the header indicating that Flash Player is installed when it was set to "ask every time" mode. Note that this was two years ago, so while I never heard about a change in this area, I won't guarantee that the behaviour is still the same ;-) -- Evolution ist ein echter Outlook-Clone - es kopiert saemtliche Fehler. [Thomas Hertweck in suse-linux] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org

Il 25/10/2017 20:47, Christian Boltz ha scritto:

Hello,

Am Mittwoch, 25. Oktober 2017, 19:29:10 CEST schrieb Marco Calistri:

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In my case to answer to Patrick, I see the warning message to "Update Flash Player" whenever I click on a Facebook attached video despite I already have the latest Flash Player plugin installed in FF56

Try to disable Flash Player in the firefox plugin settings - and I really mean to set it to "disabled" - "ask every time" won't work [1].

Thanks, I will give it a try.

I know this sounds like a funny advise, so let me explain ;-)

Many sites automatically switch to HTML5 video when they detect Flash Player isn't available. This detection is done based on headers your browser sends.

This makes sense!

I rarely view Facebook pages, but last time I did, I was able to play a video. I uninstalled Flash Player two years ago, so it obviously worked without Flash ;-)

Oh, and I didn't miss Flash Player in the last two years ;-) - most pages I usually visit all switched to HTML5 video, and in the very rare case I can't see a video, youtube-dl helps.

You Tube videos are working perfectly on TW FF56!

Regards,

Christian Boltz

[1] Last time I tested, Firefox did still send out the header indicating that Flash Player is installed when it was set to "ask every time" mode. Note that this was two years ago, so while I never heard about a change in this area, I won't guarantee that the behaviour is still the same ;-)

Thanks, I will test your solution. Regards, -- Marco Calistri -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org

On 26/10/17 08:19 PM, Marco Calistri wrote:

Il 25/10/2017 20:47, Christian Boltz ha scritto:

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Hello,

Am Mittwoch, 25. Oktober 2017, 19:29:10 CEST schrieb Marco Calistri:

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In my case to answer to Patrick, I see the warning message to "Update Flash Player" whenever I click on a Facebook attached video despite I already have the latest Flash Player plugin installed in FF56

Try to disable Flash Player in the firefox plugin settings  - and I really mean to set it to "disabled" - "ask every time" won't work [1].

I know this sounds like a funny advise, so let me explain ;-)

Many sites automatically switch to HTML5 video when they detect Flash Player isn't available. This detection is done based on headers your browser sends.

I rarely view Facebook pages, but last time I did, I was able to play a video. I uninstalled Flash Player two years ago, so it obviously worked without Flash ;-)

Oh, and I didn't miss Flash Player in the last two years ;-) - most pages I usually visit all switched to HTML5 video, and in the very rare case I can't see a video, youtube-dl helps.

Regards,

Christian Boltz

[1] Last time I tested, Firefox did still send out the header indicating       that Flash Player is installed when it was set to "ask every time"       mode. Note that this was two years ago, so while I never heard about       a change in this area, I won't guarantee that the behaviour is still       the same ;-)

Tested by following your directions and it didn't works: The page containing the video tells that I need to install Flash-Player :-(

Cheers,

Marco, Install freshplayer. It uses the chromium pepper flash file. It will work. Description freshplayerplugin - PPAPI2NPAPI compatibility layer The main goal of this project is to get PPAPI (Pepper) Flash player working in Firefox. This wrapper implements some kind of adapter which will look like browser to PPAPI plugin and look like NPAPI plugin for browser. -- Cheers! Roman -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org

Il 25/10/2017 20:47, Christian Boltz ha scritto:

Hello,

Am Mittwoch, 25. Oktober 2017, 19:29:10 CEST schrieb Marco Calistri:

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In my case to answer to Patrick, I see the warning message to "Update Flash Player" whenever I click on a Facebook attached video despite I already have the latest Flash Player plugin installed in FF56

Try to disable Flash Player in the firefox plugin settings - and I really mean to set it to "disabled" - "ask every time" won't work [1].

I know this sounds like a funny advise, so let me explain ;-)

Many sites automatically switch to HTML5 video when they detect Flash Player isn't available. This detection is done based on headers your browser sends.

I rarely view Facebook pages, but last time I did, I was able to play a video. I uninstalled Flash Player two years ago, so it obviously worked without Flash ;-)

Oh, and I didn't miss Flash Player in the last two years ;-) - most pages I usually visit all switched to HTML5 video, and in the very rare case I can't see a video, youtube-dl helps.

Regards,

Christian Boltz

[1] Last time I tested, Firefox did still send out the header indicating that Flash Player is installed when it was set to "ask every time" mode. Note that this was two years ago, so while I never heard about a change in this area, I won't guarantee that the behaviour is still the same ;-)

Nothing to do! Tried to uninstall flash-player then uninstall the fresh-player (which surprisingly was already installed). Then install just fresh-player and finally re-install flash-player. So far only Google Chrome seems to be able to play *swf* containers. Nor Firefox, nor Opera are able to do it. Cheers, Marco

Il 30/10/2017 15:14, Knurpht - Gertjan Lettink ha scritto:

Op maandag 30 oktober 2017 17:11:31 CET schreef Marco Calistri:

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Il 25/10/2017 20:47, Christian Boltz ha scritto:

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Hello,

Am Mittwoch, 25. Oktober 2017, 19:29:10 CEST schrieb Marco Calistri:

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In my case to answer to Patrick, I see the warning message to "Update Flash Player" whenever I click on a Facebook attached video despite I already have the latest Flash Player plugin installed in FF56 SNIP Nothing to do!

Tried to uninstall flash-player then uninstall the fresh-player (which surprisingly was already installed). i Then install just fresh-player and finally re-install flash-player.

So far only Google Chrome seems to be able to play *swf* containers.

Nor Firefox, nor Opera are able to do it.

Cheers,

Marco

Don't know if you saw this, but even Adobe themselves discourage the use of flashplayer. I haven't had it installed for years now, and do not miss it at all.

Yes I know that flash-player is not recommended but the question is: why it works on Firefox 56 for Windows and Chrome for Linux only? It is more a technical issue than a security one for what I can argue. Cheers, Marco

Il 30/10/2017 15:38, Erico ha scritto:

For Opera browser there are two options:

Install Opera browser

Installing signing key

sudo rpm --import https://rpm.opera.com/rpmrepo.key

sudo tee /etc/zypp/repos.d/opera.repo << RPMREPO [opera] name = Opera packages type = rpm-md baseurl = https: //rpm.opera.com/rpm gpgcheck = 1 gpgkey = https: //rpm.opera.com/rpmrepo.key enabled = 1 autorefresh = 1 keeppackages = 0 RPMREPO

sudo zypper in opera-stable or sudo zypper in opera-beta

Option 1

For Opera stable

Add Adobe and Packman repository https://en.opensuse.org/Adobe_Flash_Player http://opensuse-guide.org/browserplugins.php

Install Flash Player and ffmpeg: sudo zypper in flash-player-ppapi chromium-ffmpeg-extra

Backup and copy libffmpeg.so to the Opera browser: sudo mv /usr/lib64/opera/libffmpeg.so /usr/lib64/opera/libffmpeg.so.original sudo cp -p /usr/lib64/chromium-ffmpeg-extra/libffmpeg.so /usr/lib64/opera/libffmpeg.so

Note: When updating Opera you have to redo the copy of libffmpeg.so You can also use symlink for libffmpeg.so but can be removed when updating Opera

Option 2

Add Adobe and Packman repository sudo zypper in flash-player-ppapi chromium-ffmpeg-extra

Search and download in herecura repo: https://repo.herecura.eu https://repo.herecura.eu/herecura/x86_64/ opera-ffmpeg-codecs opera-beta-ffmpeg-codecs

Backup libffmpeg.so to libffmpeg.so.original sudo mv /usr/lib64/opera/libffmpeg.so /usr/lib64/opera/libffmpeg.so.original sudo mv /usr/lib64/opera-beta/libffmpeg.so /usr/lib64/opera-beta/libffmpeg.so.original

Extract each file and copy libffmpeg.so to sudo cp -p libffmpeg.so /usr/lib64/opera/libffmpeg.so sudo cp -p libffmpeg.so /usr/lib64/opera-beta/libffmpeg.so

Note: When updating Opera you have to redo the copy of libffmpeg.so You can also use symlink for libffmpeg.so but can be removed when updating Opera Opera Developer is not working For Opera Beta you need to give execute permissions to Flash

Regards

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Everything you wrote is interesting but I would like to rely just on one browser: Firefox. Are the directions you suggested valid also to be used with FF56, in order to have a working "SWF" browser? I mean the directions related to add Adobe and Packman repositories: https://en.opensuse.org/Adobe_Flash_Player http://opensuse-guide.org/browserplugins.php Thanks and regards, -- Computer Science: the boring art of coping with a large number of trivialities (The Devil's DP Dictionary) N�����r��y隊Z)z{.���r�+�맲��r��z�^�ˬz��N�(�֜��^� ޭ隊Z)z{.���r�+��0�����Ǩ�

Il 30/10/2017 17:08, Erico ha scritto:

For now I'm using Waterfox that works with Flash Player

You can also test it.

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Install Waterfox on openSUSE

Get latest version https://www.waterfoxproject.org/downloads

Install sudo rm -rf /opt/waterfox sudo tar xjvf waterfox-<version>.tar.bz2 -C /opt/

Create symlink sudo ln -snf /opt/waterfox/waterfox /usr/bin/waterfox

Create .desktop launcher echo -e '[Desktop Entry]\n Version=1.0\n Name=Waterfox\n Comment=The free, open and private browser\n Exec=/usr/bin/waterfox\n Icon=/opt/waterfox/browser/chrome/icons/default/default48.png\n Type=Application\n Categories=Network;WebBrowser;' | sudo tee /usr/share/applications/waterfox.desktop

Enable plugins sudo mkdir /usr/lib/mozilla sudo ln -sn /usr/lib64/browser-plugins /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins

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Uninstall sudo rm -rf /opt/waterfox sudo rm -f /usr/bin/waterfox sudo rm -f /usr/share/applications/waterfox.desktop

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Thanks for this input but I would prefer using Firefox as default browser. On the other hand, if we speak just for the SWF issue, I already verified that with Google Chrome SWF is working perfectly. Cheers, -- Marco Calistri

Il 30/10/2017 16:19, Wolfgang Bauer ha scritto:

Am Montag, 30. Oktober 2017, 16:11:31 schrieb Marco Calistri:

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Then install just fresh-player and finally re-install flash-player.

It doesn't really make sense to install both though.

fresh-player is a bridge to make it possible to use Chromium's flash-player- ppapi (formerly called "pepper-flash") in Firefox, i.e. it "replaces" flash- player.

Maybe it is fresh-player/flash-player-ppapi that doesn't work in Firefox anymore?

At least the error message posted by somebody else did refer to Chromium: [Parent 16989] WARNING: pipe error (247): Connection reset by peer: file /home/abuild/rpmbuild/BUILD/mozilla/ipc/chromium/src/chrome/common/ipc_channel_posix.cc, line 353 <== /usr/lib64/firefox/plugin-container: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib64/firefox/libxul.so: undefined symbol: gdk_screen_get_monitor_workarea

IOW, try to remove freshplayerplugin and make sure flash-player (*without* - ppapi, which is the one for Chromium) is installed.

Kind Regards, Wolfgang

Thanks for your intervention, if I'm not wrong you are among the ones taking care of Mozilla in TW. ;-) I will try to do *AGAIN* what you suggest because I already did it (uninstall fresh+ppapi letting just Adobe fp latest version installed w/out success). May be I need to delete my .cache after uninstall fresh+ppapi before attempting again a shockwave flash page(?) Thanks and regards, -- For every action, there is an equal and opposite criticism.

My system: openSUSE Tumbleweed with Firefox 56, Packman repository added, everything works fine. Ignore the pepper thing and the freshplayer. There were several years that Adobe had stopped updating flash player for Linux. During the time only Chrome for Linux is able to view swf contents. This is because Chrome is using their own way to implement Flash - Pepper Flash API (PPAPI). So at that time there was a way to make the newest flash player working on Firefox, that is the freshplayer project, which turns the PPAPI plugin into the traditional NPAPI which Firefox is using. However, now Adobe is providing the newest NPAPI flash player for Linux again, and you can find it in the Packman repo (just search for flash or flashplayer etc. I didn't remember the exact package name). That means you don't need the freshplayerplugin and flash- player-ppapi packages, just install the original flash player from Packman repo and it should work fine. Regards, Charlie On Tue, Oct 31, 2017 at 4:41 AM, Wolfgang Bauer wrote:

Am Montag, 30. Oktober 2017, 18:52:44 schrieb Marco Calistri:

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Thanks for your intervention, if I'm not wrong you are among the ones taking care of Mozilla in TW. ;-)

No, sorry. You probably confuse me with Wolfgang Rosenauer...

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I will try to do *AGAIN* what you suggest because I already did it (uninstall fresh+ppapi letting just Adobe fp latest version installed w/out success).

You can leave flash-player-ppapi installed I think. Firefox shouldn't see it anyway.

If that doesn't help, you could also try with freshplayerplugin and flash- player-ppapi installed and flash-player removed.

I have no idea which one should work (or even if one does) though. I neither use Tumbleweed nor FF56.

Kind Regards, Wolfgang

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Am Dienstag, 31. Oktober 2017, 13:25:06 schrieb Marco Calistri:

Are you saying that the Packman flashplayer is better than the official updated Adobe flashplayer that I have installed on my TW system?

None of them is "better" really. Flash-player is proprietary closed-source, Packman just packages the same binary blob that's available from Adobe. Personally I prefer Packman's package though (which works fine here on Leap with FF 52ESR). Why add yet another repo if you are using Packman anyway? ;-) I'd suggest you try to switch to Packman's package, there may be a problem with the installation paths... (just guessing though) Kind Regards, Wolfgang -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org

Am Dienstag, 31. Oktober 2017, 19:04:13 schrieb Marco Calistri:

Il 31/10/2017 14:00, Wolfgang Bauer ha scritto:

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Am Dienstag, 31. Oktober 2017, 13:25:06 schrieb Marco Calistri:

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Are you saying that the Packman flashplayer is better than the official updated Adobe flashplayer that I have installed on my TW system?

None of them is "better" really. Flash-player is proprietary closed-source, Packman just packages the same binary blob that's available from Adobe.

Personally I prefer Packman's package though (which works fine here on Leap with FF 52ESR).

Why you rely on 52ESR?

Because it's the version provided in Leap 42.3 (and its update repo), and I have no urgent need to upgrade to the non-ESR version. Kind Regards, Wolfgang -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org

Il 30/10/2017 23:40, Chun Yu Charlie CHAN ha scritto:

My system: openSUSE Tumbleweed with Firefox 56, Packman repository added, everything works fine.

Ignore the pepper thing and the freshplayer. There were several years that Adobe had stopped updating flash player for Linux. During the time only Chrome for Linux is able to view swf contents. This is because Chrome is using their own way to implement Flash - Pepper Flash API (PPAPI).

So at that time there was a way to make the newest flash player working on Firefox, that is the freshplayer project, which turns the PPAPI plugin into the traditional NPAPI which Firefox is using.

However, now Adobe is providing the newest NPAPI flash player for Linux again, and you can find it in the Packman repo (just search for flash or flashplayer etc. I didn't remember the exact package name). That means you don't need the freshplayerplugin and flash- player-ppapi packages, just install the original flash player from Packman repo and it should work fine.

Regards, Charlie

Nothing to do also with the Packman flash player and flash plugin with my FF56: it doesn't displays SWF contents! Regards, -- Marco Calistri

Il 02/11/2017 07:47, Lars Marowsky-Bree ha scritto:

On 2017-11-01T13:08:43, Marco Calistri wrote:

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Nothing to do also with the Packman flash player and flash plugin with my FF56: it doesn't displays SWF contents!

Unsurprising. I'm pretty sure this is due to our FireFox build missing https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/e46b61728739

Hello! No, the problem for me, as somebody by talking about Packman about this issue, has enlighten my head, was due a mix of packages installed on my TW system, coming from OSS and Packman! After I installed the flash-player from Packman-repository, the SWF content was still failing on FF56 so I decided to switch all my installed packages to the ones of Packman repository and this did the job! Now my FF56 is SWF enabled working like a charm :-) Cheers, -- Marco Calistri Linux version : openSUSE Tumbleweed 20171028 Kernel: 4.13.10-1.gdb36cf8-default - Cinnamon 3.4.6 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org

On Wednesday 2017-10-25 18:46, Lars Marowsky-Bree wrote:

On 2017-10-25T11:16:40, Patrick Shanahan wrote:

/usr/lib64/firefox/plugin-container: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib64/firefox/libxul.so: undefined symbol: gdk_screen_get_monitor_workarea

Seems more like a problem between the FF build and GDK rather than anything Flash-related. It seems conceivable that gtk changed their API again and firefox did not get the needed rebuild - or something in that ballpark. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org