On Thursday 22 October 2015 18:01:10 James wrote: >Hello, > >I was just reading about "lighspark" [1] and at first glance, it seems >to be a replacement for adobe flash with support for the latest >features. Lightspark can be found with:: >'eix -R lightspark' > > >You may also need to run 'eix-remote update' if you have not updated >that database of extended-availability packages...... >So anyone tried lightspark with mozilla browers (seamonkey, ff, etc)? > > > >Granted we all just wish flash would go away and be replaced by something >else that is open source. But, I need to view some flash deliverables >on a routine basis:: so this post is about better support for flash >in browsers. I am really tired of adobe-flash. > > >[1] http://lightspark.github.io/
I tried that a good while ago, but at the time I had no luck. However, that was a few years ago. Personally, I actually uninstalled adobe-flash almost exactly two weeks and 2 hours ago :-) . I haven't really missed it, and youtube-dl (well, mpv's built-in youtube-dl support) helps with the few sites that still don't support HTML5 video. I practically never encounter any other type of flash content. (I consciously decided that I don't care about flash games, so they don't count.) One other interesting project in the direction of replacing adobe-flash is Mozilla's Shumway, which is, AIUI, basically a Flash interpreter written in JavaScript. With it, you wouldn't even need a browser plug-in. It is considered an experiment, though. See the following links: https://blog.mozilla.org/research/2012/11/12/introducing-the-shumway-open-swf-runtime-project/ http://benjamin.smedbergs.us/blog/2012-11-12/shumway-a-swf-interpreter-entirely-in-javascript/ http://www.areweflashyet.com/shumway/ https://github.com/mozilla/shumway/wiki -- Marc Joliet -- "People who think they know everything really annoy those of us who know we don't" - Bjarne Stroustrup
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