[opensuse] Flash in Mozilla Firefox
How does one get flash to work again in Firefox? I am currently running 64.4 on Leap 42.3. They always try to help me by blocking things. Don -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
Op dinsdag 19 mei 2020 03:28:33 CEST schreef don fisher: > How does one get flash to work again in Firefox? I am currently running > 64.4 on Leap 42.3. They always try to help me by blocking things. > > Don 1. 42.3 is outdated. We're at 15.1 now and waiting for July's release of 15.2 2. You shouldn't need flash, even Adobe firmly advsises against it 3. Since my point 1. you run an outdated Fifefox. Conclusion: upgrading should be your first priority. -- Gertjan Lettink a.k.a. Knurpht openSUSE Forums Team -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On 05/18/2020 08:28 PM, don fisher wrote:
How does one get flash to work again in Firefox? I am currently running 64.4 on Leap 42.3. They always try to help me by blocking things.
Don
1. Install the latest flashplayer from the adobe repo: (you can add the repo if you haven't using the following URL) http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/linux/x86_64/ 2. it will install to: /usr/lib64/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so You need to create a 'plugins' directory under your current ~/.mozilla directory and create a symlink to the file, e.g. $ mkdir -p ~/.mozilla/plugins $ cd ~/.mozilla/plugins $ ln -s /usr/lib64/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so Done :) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
* David C. Rankin
On 05/18/2020 08:28 PM, don fisher wrote:
How does one get flash to work again in Firefox? I am currently running 64.4 on Leap 42.3. They always try to help me by blocking things.
Don
1. Install the latest flashplayer from the adobe repo: (you can add the repo if you haven't using the following URL) http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/linux/x86_64/
2. it will install to: /usr/lib64/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so
You need to create a 'plugins' directory under your current ~/.mozilla directory and create a symlink to the file, e.g.
$ mkdir -p ~/.mozilla/plugins $ cd ~/.mozilla/plugins $ ln -s /usr/lib64/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so
Done :)
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On 05/18/2020 10:13 PM, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* David C. Rankin
[05-18-20 22:26]: On 05/18/2020 08:28 PM, don fisher wrote:
How does one get flash to work again in Firefox? I am currently running 64.4 on Leap 42.3. They always try to help me by blocking things.
Don
1. Install the latest flashplayer from the adobe repo: (you can add the repo if you haven't using the following URL) http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/linux/x86_64/
2. it will install to: /usr/lib64/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so
You need to create a 'plugins' directory under your current ~/.mozilla directory and create a symlink to the file, e.g.
$ mkdir -p ~/.mozilla/plugins $ cd ~/.mozilla/plugins $ ln -s /usr/lib64/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so
Done :)
One would expect an explicit warning before providing a path to achieve a hazardous objective to one obviously unaware of the consequences
Knurpht-openSUSE
On Tuesday, 19 May 2020 12:49:28 ACST David C. Rankin wrote:
On 05/18/2020 10:13 PM, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* David C. Rankin
[05-18-20 22:26]: On 05/18/2020 08:28 PM, don fisher wrote:
How does one get flash to work again in Firefox? I am currently running 64.4 on Leap 42.3. They always try to help me by blocking things.
Don
1. Install the latest flashplayer from the adobe repo: (you can add the repo if you haven't using the following URL) http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/linux/x86_64/
2. it will install to: /usr/lib64/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so
You need to create a 'plugins' directory under your current ~/.mozilla directory and create a symlink to the file, e.g.
$ mkdir -p ~/.mozilla/plugins $ cd ~/.mozilla/plugins $ ln -s /usr/lib64/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so
Done :)
One would expect an explicit warning before providing a path to achieve a hazardous objective to one obviously unaware of the consequences
Knurpht-openSUSE
already provided the warning in his reply. The point is there are still a large number of sites that use flash (especially intranet can company internal sites -- and government sites that are horrendously slow to update)
Yep - and bespoke system configuration/monitoring applications by international corporations that are yet to be migrated away from Flash to HTML5, or those whose HTML5 versions are not yet feature-complete and so still need the Flash/Flex client to do certain advanced admin operations (looking at you, VMWare, FLIR Systems etc).
Browsers now also provide huge warnings and require that you enable flash on a page-by-page basis (unless you hack your own policies.json file for Firefox)
Warnings covered.
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