Re: [Discuss] Flash player on Google Chrome and Fedora 30 followup

[Rich Pieri]

On Sat, 15 Jun 2019 06:52:11 -0400
Dan Ritter  wrote:

> What do you still use flash for? I haven't seen anything using
> it in four or five years.

VMware have not fully ported their vCenter UI to HTML 5. It's mostly
there but it's not finished. So yeah, I still sometimes, rarely, need
Flash.

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Re: [Discuss] Flash player on Google Chrome and Fedora 30 followup

[Jerry Feldman]

My wife uses it to play a Facebook game :(.

I don't use it for anything.

On Sat, Jun 15, 2019, 6:53 AM Dan Ritter  wrote:

> Jerry Feldman wrote:
> > My wife doesn't like Firefox and won't try other browsers. However, flash
> > player now works on Google Chrome on Fedora 30
>
> What do you still use flash for? I haven't seen anything using
> it in four or five years.
>
> -dsr-
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Re: [Discuss] Flash player on Google Chrome and Fedora 30 followup

[Dan Ritter]

Jerry Feldman wrote: 
> My wife doesn't like Firefox and won't try other browsers. However, flash
> player now works on Google Chrome on Fedora 30

What do you still use flash for? I haven't seen anything using
it in four or five years.

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[Discuss] Flash player on Google Chrome and Fedora 30 followup

[Jerry Feldman]

My wife doesn't like Firefox and won't try other browsers. However, flash
player now works on Google Chrome on Fedora 30
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Re: [Discuss] Flash player on Google Chrome and Fedora 30

[Bill Bogstad]

On Thu, May 16, 2019 at 10:37 AM Jerry Feldman  wrote:
>
> Good idea

Not if you want to protect her from malicious web sites (or just ad networks).
All of the major browser vendors are slowly deprecating flash.  Even Adobe
is planning to stop putting out patches at the end of 2020.

https://theblog.adobe.com/adobe-flash-update/

Rather then trying to use a general purpose browser to access apps
that require flash, I suggest that you install an ESR release of
Firefox which still
supports Flash.  Tell your wife to use that browser only for the app
that requires Flash.
You can install the current Firefox at the same time and have her use
it for everything else.
You might as well go back to Fedora 30 while you are at it as well.

I did this for a while both to continue Java plugin support (printer
scanner support)
as well as old Firefox extensions that I was still using.  I've since eliminated
both use cases, but it can work for you.

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Re: [Discuss] Flash player on Google Chrome and Fedora 30

[Jerry Feldman]

Good idea

On Wed, May 15, 2019 at 7:09 PM jbk  wrote:

> On 5/15/19 6:45 PM, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> > Update. I downgraded my wife's computer to fedora 29 that does run flash.
> >
> Jerry,
>
> You may want to disable updates to firefox also.
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Re: [Discuss] Flash player on Google Chrome and Fedora 30

[jbk]

On 5/15/19 6:45 PM, Jerry Feldman wrote:

Update. I downgraded my wife's computer to fedora 29 that does run flash.


Jerry,

You may want to disable updates to firefox also.

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Re: [Discuss] Flash player on Google Chrome and Fedora 30

[Jerry Feldman]

Update. I downgraded my wife's computer to fedora 29 that does run flash.

On Tue, May 14, 2019, 7:21 PM Jerry Feldman  wrote:

> My wife has an important app that requires flash. We just upgraded to
> Fedora 30, and it does not work. It is installed correctly, with the
> appropriate setting:
> I set to 'allow' in site settings and page settings.
> When I run Flash Player help ( https://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player.html)
> I
> get the following correct info:
> ---
> YOUR SYSTEM INFORMATION
> Your Flash Version
> 32.0.0
> Your browser name
> Google Chrome
> Your Operating System (OS)
> Linux
> --
> BUT, on the same page
> Verify whether Flash Player is installed, and I get no annimation
>
> I don't want to have to install an older version, but I may have to
>
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[Discuss] Flash player on Google Chrome and Fedora 30

[Jerry Feldman]

My wife has an important app that requires flash. We just upgraded to
Fedora 30, and it does not work. It is installed correctly, with the
appropriate setting:
I set to 'allow' in site settings and page settings.
When I run Flash Player help ( https://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player.html) I
get the following correct info:
---
YOUR SYSTEM INFORMATION
Your Flash Version
32.0.0
Your browser name
Google Chrome
Your Operating System (OS)
Linux
--
BUT, on the same page
Verify whether Flash Player is installed, and I get no annimation

I don't want to have to install an older version, but I may have to

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[Discuss] Flash :-(

[Jerry Feldman]

My wife run Fedora 27 on her new laptop, and recently got the following
message on one of the Facebook games she plays:
"Adobe Flash Player is blocked by your browser. Please check your
settings or follow these instructions to enable it."
She is running Chrome Version 65.0.3325.146 (Official Build) (64-bit).
The problem is that on my Desktop computer her game runs with flash, as
well as her old laptopand my laptop.I have tried both wayland and xorg
as well as her low res and the highest resolution. The global flash
settings are ask, and facebook is set to allow on all 4computers.The
global settings are accessed via chrome://settings/content and
chrome://flags. Graphics controller is Intel UHD.

This might be the issue:
When I run chrome://components, chrome reports flash version 28, but
when I run https://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player.html, and click on the
"check now" button, flash reports as 24.
But, on my desktop and laptop, the "check now" button correctly reports 28.

At the moment I am out of ideas.

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