On 05/05/2015 08:27 AM, David Sommerseth wrote:
On 05/05/15 08:02, ToddAndMargo wrote:Hi All, SL 6.6 x64 I looked over on https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/993679 for alternative to Flash. They recommended Lightspark or Gnash. Neither of which I can find with "yum --enablerepo=* whatprovides". Any other ways around Adobe's outdated flash plugin? I am mainly concerned about all those flash graphics I see on web sites.Hmmm ... well, if you're concerned about the flash graphics, why not ditch flash completely and you'll be able to ignore them all? Most significant places these days supports HTML5 where flash mostly have a value (view video streams). Other than that ... yes, the version number of the RPM package Adobe provides is old. And Adobe have said they do not actively develop new features on Linux. But they have released security updates when that has been needed. I've not caught that they've changed their involvement here: "NOTE: Adobe Flash Player 11.2 will be the last version to target Linux as a supported platform. Adobe will continue to provide security backports to Flash Player 11.2 for Linux. " <https://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/>
Hi David, I do realize that adobe is backporting security updates. The problem is that the other end doesn't know about the backports and sometimes refused to run with such an outdated version. And, I would dearly love to ditch Flash altogether and have tried it several time. There is just too much stuff I use that requires it. I would love it if these folks would switch to HTML5, but... Here is a Flash graphic rich site as an example: http://nutritiondata.self.com/facts/vegetables-and-vegetable-products/2942/2 What a mess without Flash. mumble, mumble, mumble. Thank you for helping me with this. -T p.s. and on further research, I am finding that Lightspark is for rendering .swf files, so it would have not worked for Flash graphics anyway. (I haven't had to play .swf in ages. When I did, I just played them mainly in VLC.)
