Re: [DNG] flash player for browser
Quoting Joachim Fahrner (j...@fahrner.name): > You can try Google Chrome (not Chromium). AFAIK that's the only > browser for Linux that still supports Flash. As mentioned separately, pepperflashplugin-nonfree (the PPAPI[1] proprietary Google-written Flash player _for_ Google Chrome) works in Chromium -- because after all, Google Chrome is just Chromium with a bunch of dodgy proprietary bits tacked on. Debian Project's page about that: https://wiki.debian.org/PepperFlashPlayer/Installing [1] PPAPI is a similar but different Google rewrite of the old NPAPI plug-in interface. (The latter has been standard in Mozilla-family Web browsers, but is being phased out starting 2013 as part of browser wrecking^W improvement.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Native_Client#PPAPI https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NPAPI#Browser_support -- Cheers, If you're going to play the game properly, Rick Moen you'd better know every rule. r...@linuxmafia.com -- Rep. Barbara Jordan (D-Texas) McQ! (4x80) ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
Re: [DNG] flash player for browser
On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 02:01:03PM -0400, Haines Brown wrote: > On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 07:49:56PM +0200, Joachim Fahrner wrote: > > Am 2017-07-26 19:40, schrieb Haines Brown: > > >I need access an online database, but when I try to do it I get the > > >error message that I don't have the latest version of Macromedia Flash > > >Player. The site needs Macromedia Flash Player 11.1 or higher. > > > > Adobe ceased the flash player supoort for Linux long time ago. And now they > > announced the end of flash player for all platforms. Flash is dead! > > > > https://blogs.adobe.com/conversations/2017/07/adobe-flash-update.html > > Ah! Thank you. > > So then how do I access the database? The files I need to access are > newspaper images. In the short term, try installing google-spyware (ie, official chrome rather than chromium). In the medium term, a VM with Windows. In the long term, you have a yet another reminder why proprietary software is bad. For something with as much existing content as Flash, there's no way someone wouldn't keep it on life support, the way we can read .Z files today. -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ What Would Jesus Do, MUD/MMORPG edition: ⣾⠁⢰⠒⠀⣿⡁ • multiplay with an admin char to benefit your mortal ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ • abuse item cloning bugs (the five fishes + two breads affair) ⠈⠳⣄ • use glitches to walk on water ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
Re: [DNG] flash player for browser
Rüdiger Meier - 26.07.17, 20:04: > On 07/26/2017 08:01 PM, Haines Brown wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 07:49:56PM +0200, Joachim Fahrner wrote: > >> Am 2017-07-26 19:40, schrieb Haines Brown: > >>> I need access an online database, but when I try to do it I get the > >>> error message that I don't have the latest version of Macromedia Flash > >>> Player. The site needs Macromedia Flash Player 11.1 or higher. > >> > >> Adobe ceased the flash player supoort for Linux long time ago. And now > >> they > >> announced the end of flash player for all platforms. Flash is dead! > >> > >> https://blogs.adobe.com/conversations/2017/07/adobe-flash-update.html > > > > Ah! Thank you. > > > > So then how do I access the database? The files I need to access are > > newspaper images. > > For such exceptional cases I have google-chrome installed, I has a built-in > flash player. chromium + pepperflashplugin-nonfree in case you in case you want the free version of Google Chrome without all the stuff Google adds in. That said, Adobe also updated the Linux flash player recently. But I think you may need the lastest flashplugin-nonfree package in order to automatically download it (since it has hash sums and will accept download archives from Adobe with hash sums it knows about) martin@merkaba:~> rmadison flashplugin-nonfree | cut -c1-65 flashplugin-nonfree | 1:3.2+wheezy1 | oldoldstable/contrib flashplugin-nonfree | 1:3.6.1| oldstable-kfreebsd/contrib flashplugin-nonfree | 1:3.6.1+deb8u1 | oldstable/contrib flashplugin-nonfree | 1:3.7 | unstable/contrib Similar might be true for Pepperflash-Plugin. However I suggest you also hint that library that Flash is dead and they better change their way of distribution media files rather sooner than later. I removed all flash from my system quite a while ago and I don´t look back. I think Flash should have gone 20 years ago already. Thanks, -- Martin ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
Re: [DNG] flash player for browser
Am 2017-07-26 20:01, schrieb Haines Brown: So then how do I access the database? The files I need to access are newspaper images. You can try Google Chrome (not Chromium). AFAIK that's the only browser for Linux that still supports Flash. ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
Re: [DNG] flash player for browser
On 07/26/2017 08:01 PM, Haines Brown wrote: On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 07:49:56PM +0200, Joachim Fahrner wrote: Am 2017-07-26 19:40, schrieb Haines Brown: I need access an online database, but when I try to do it I get the error message that I don't have the latest version of Macromedia Flash Player. The site needs Macromedia Flash Player 11.1 or higher. Adobe ceased the flash player supoort for Linux long time ago. And now they announced the end of flash player for all platforms. Flash is dead! https://blogs.adobe.com/conversations/2017/07/adobe-flash-update.html Ah! Thank you. So then how do I access the database? The files I need to access are newspaper images. For such exceptional cases I have google-chrome installed, I has a built-in flash player. ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
[DNG] flash player for browser
I know the issue of flash player has often come up, but I don't normally watch videos and so did not pay attention. I need access an online database, but when I try to do it I get the error message that I don't have the latest version of Macromedia Flash Player. The site needs Macromedia Flash Player 11.1 or higher. Is the Flash Player the same as a flash player plugin for my Iceweasel browser? The browser flash plugins seem just for playing YouTube. I already have the YouTube Flashplayer extension installed in my browser. Discussions simply say to install flashplugin-nonfree. That I've done. However, that does not provide access to the database. Still get the error message. Haines Brown ___ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
