On Wednesday 18 November 2015 20:59:45 Tom Ashley wrote: > On 11/18/2015 01:30 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Wednesday 18 November 2015 10:05:33 Lisi Reisz wrote: > >> On Wednesday 18 November 2015 14:24:17 Alex Vong wrote: > >>> Hi, > >>> > >>> Next time please send your email to <debian-user@lists.debian.org> > >>> for user questions, thanks! (You can also CC me since I don't > >>> subscribe the debian-user list.) > >>> > >>> To watch <http://www.bbc.com/news/10462520>, first install > >>> youtube-dl: $ apt-get install youtube-dl > >> > >> Or just install flashplugin-nonfree with Iceweasel, > > > > That has not worked in >4 months here. On wheezy, I have installed every > > new flashplugin-installer thats been released, and thats a bunch of > > them, ditto for my ancient lappy with lubuntu 14.04 on it but there is > > nothing for it to download. So quit advertising that it works and just > > let flash die the horrible security hole ridden death it deserves. > > > >> or watch with > >> Google Chrome. > > > > Can you stop it from calling home? Tcpdump and wireshark are quite > > educational tools. > > > >> I'm sure plenty of other things work, but I know those > >> do. I watch that news-site all the time, several times a day most > >> days, and browse over the whole site; sometimes just to see if there > >> has been a new newsflash on an important story. Think of the > >> disk-space needed if I were to download everything every time! > > > > So do I use chrome, pure and simply because I don't have to click thru 2 > > or 3 of iceweasels paranoid, are you sure requesters, which it promises > > to remember you OK'd it, but it hasn't remembered yet. > > ........ > > > Cheers, Gene Heskett > > The package browser-plugin-freshplayer-pepperflash works very well for > me on iceweasel. Available in Stretch or in Jessie-backports. Not much use for those of us running Wheezy, as Gene and I are. And it is in contrib not main. Still, things are obviously improving.
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