Re: [PLUG] Slackware at the Clinic

2018-12-18 Thread Dick Steffens
On 12/18/18 4:01 PM, Ben Koenig wrote: First, Pepperflash is chrome specific. That's it, that's the reality and there is NOTHING else. Pepperflash is a GOOGLE specific product intended for use with other GOOGLE products. Firefox is a MOZILLA product. The difference and why pepperflash isn't

Re: [PLUG] Slackware at the Clinic

2018-12-18 Thread Ben Koenig
First, Pepperflash is chrome specific. That's it, that's the reality and there is NOTHING else. Pepperflash is a GOOGLE specific product intended for use with other GOOGLE products. Firefox is a MOZILLA product. The difference and why pepperflash isn't working should be obvious. After >10 emails

Re: [PLUG] Slackware at the Clinic

2018-12-18 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 18 Dec 2018, Dick Steffens wrote: Oddly, while it works on the Slackware laptop, it doesn't work on my Ubuntu 18 desktop. Why it's odd is that I've never had a problem viewing BBC news items in Firefox in Ubuntu 18. Weird. But it shouldn't happen again on the laptop. Dick, FWIW, I

Re: [PLUG] Slackware at the Clinic

2018-12-18 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 17 Dec 2018, Dick Steffens wrote: I removed flashplayer, and installed pepperflash. Do you have it working with Firefox? Ed talked about using it with Chromium. I haven't installed Chromium yet, but on Firefox I still get the error message that I need to install Flash. Dick,

Re: [PLUG] Slackware at the Clinic

2018-12-17 Thread King Beowulf
On 12/17/18 6:13 PM, Dick Steffens wrote: >>> will remove it. > > I removed flashplayer, and installed pepperflash. Do you have it working > with Firefox? Ed talked about using it with Chromium. I haven't > installed Chromium yet, but on Firefox I still get the error message > that I need to

Re: [PLUG] Slackware at the Clinic

2018-12-17 Thread Dick Steffens
On 12/17/18 8:20 AM, Dick Steffens wrote: On 12/17/18 8:17 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: On Mon, 17 Dec 2018, Dick Steffens wrote: Ed told me about pepperflash in regards to chromium. I'll give it a try and see how it goes. Do I need to remove the flashplayer plugin I installed yesterday? If so,

Re: [PLUG] Slackware at the Clinic oops

2018-12-17 Thread Bob Vinisky
Make that a gui for your desktop (darned spell-checkers) Bob ___ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug

Re: [PLUG] Slackware at the Clinic

2018-12-17 Thread Bob Vinisky
> On Dec 17, 2018, at 8:20 AM, Dick Steffens wrote: > > On 12/17/18 8:17 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: >> On Mon, 17 Dec 2018, Dick Steffens wrote: >> >>> Ed told me about pepperflash in regards to chromium. I'll give it a try >>> and see how it goes. Do I need to remove the flashplayer plugin I >>>

Re: [PLUG] Slackware at the Clinic

2018-12-17 Thread Dick Steffens
On 12/17/18 8:17 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: On Mon, 17 Dec 2018, Dick Steffens wrote: Ed told me about pepperflash in regards to chromium. I'll give it a try and see how it goes. Do I need to remove the flashplayer plugin I installed yesterday? If so, how is that done? Dick,   I've had both

Re: [PLUG] Slackware at the Clinic

2018-12-17 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 17 Dec 2018, Dick Steffens wrote: Ed told me about pepperflash in regards to chromium. I'll give it a try and see how it goes. Do I need to remove the flashplayer plugin I installed yesterday? If so, how is that done? Dick, I've had both installed, but removed flashplayer and have

Re: [PLUG] Slackware at the Clinic

2018-12-17 Thread Dick Steffens
On 12/17/18 5:47 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: On Sun, 16 Dec 2018, Dick Steffens wrote: I'm sitting in the living room looking at news sites. I found a video that tells me I need Flash, so the flash player plugin must not be what I needed. Dick,   You've been introduced to SlackBuilds.org so

Re: [PLUG] Slackware at the Clinic

2018-12-17 Thread Rich Shepard
On Sun, 16 Dec 2018, Dick Steffens wrote: I'm sitting in the living room looking at news sites. I found a video that tells me I need Flash, so the flash player plugin must not be what I needed. Dick, You've been introduced to SlackBuilds.org so you can download, build, and install

[PLUG] Slackware at the Clinic

2018-12-16 Thread Dick Steffens
Thanks, Ed, for all the help a the clinic today. I'm sitting in the living room looking at news sites. I found a video that tells me I need Flash, so the flash player plugin must not be what I needed. Win2k seems to be operating correctly. Getting VirtualBox running was  a big success.