On 06/12/2015 03:34 PM, The Wanderer wrote:
On 06/12/2015 at 02:58 PM, Thomas H. George wrote:
Using Iceweasel I continually get a popup saying Flash Player needed
to display some content. In fact, all the content seems to be
displayed so the popup is only a minor annoyance.
BUT then a friend send a link to photos at shutterfly which I can't
view as Flash Player is required.
I tried installing Flash Player by downloading the tar.gz version and
following the installation instructions. Popup is still there. Next
I downloaded the .rpm version and used alien and dpkg to install it.
Popup is still there and no photos.
First, if you need the Flash Player, I recommend installing it via the
'flashplugin-nonfree' package.
Right. Added non-free to entries in sources.list. Updated, ran
dist-upgrade and then install flashplugin-nonfree and it still was not
found. Then remembered the sources.list entries always used to be main
contrib non-free. With this change flashplugin-nonfree was found and
installed.
Did you restart Iceweasel after the install?
just to be sure I rebooted the system and now it all works. Iceweasel
and shutterfly.
In my experience, Firefox / Iceweasel / other-variants-of-the-same does
not recognize changes in the Flash plugin (and possibly in other
similarly interfaced plugins) until after the browser has been restarted.
Also, what does about:plugins say about the situation?
I've been experimenting with the Shumway extension, which is an attempt
to implement a Flash player in JavaScript, as part of Mozilla's effort
to kill the need for the binary Flash plugin. It's certainly not 100%
compatible yet (or anything near it, really), but it's surprisingly good
in a lot of cases.
If you care enough about trying to use only free software, and tend to
use only the sorts of Flash found on the major sites that rely on it, it
may be worth giving Shumway a try.
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