On Sun, 23 Apr 2017 15:41:30 -0400 Gene Heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote:
> On Sunday 23 April 2017 15:15:05 Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > On Sun, 23 Apr 2017 00:21:28 -0400 Gene Heskett > > <ghesk...@shentel.net> > > > > wrote: > > > On Saturday 22 April 2017 23:22:45 Patrick Bartek wrote: > > > > On Sat, 22 Apr 2017 12:24:32 -0400 Gene Heskett > > > > <ghesk...@shentel.net> > > > > > > > > wrote: > > > > > Went to newegg.com to look for some optical fiber but the > > > > > front page, while I think its alive, did not respond to a > > > > > mouse click on any product link. I hope its not contagious. > > > > > > > > > > Many news sites are saying "request entity too large" also. > > > > > > > > Works fine here. Although rendering sometimes is sluggish -- a > > > > few seconds longer. Could be Cox Internet. They get slow at > > > > times. Version 45.9.0 with the latest flashpalyer 25.0.0.148 > > > > installed yesterday > > > > > > > > B > > > > > > And how do you get that 10 year newer flash? The adobe site > > > doesn't show me anything newer than the 11.xx.xx.xxx stuff. > > > > That's strange. In your other posts you said you found that "new" > > version, but I get mine just by going to www.adobe.com, and at the > > bottom of the page, right side, click on "flashplayer." That takes > > me to the download page with Linux 64bit already picked, I choose > > the tar.gz file even though there's a .deb one. Download, unpack > > and copy as root libflashplayer.so to /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/ > > after mv'ing the old version just in case. Done! > > > > For years while using Fedora, manually was the ONLY way to install > > the flashplayer. And since "install-flashplayer-nonfree" stopped > > working months ago, I reverted to my old Fedora habits.. > > > > I noted as you did that there are a lot of other places for the > > player, mostly symbolic links, but the above works for me, so I keep > > doing it that way. > > > > As to how to find out when a new version is out, I wait until > > Firefox during my normal browsing notifies me my version is old and > > my system "..is at risk." Then just do the manual download/install > > thing. I don't use the Firefox link to the new version. Have had > > problems with it before. > > > > B > > Problems is an understatement and I blame that for the mess I have > now. > > Its as if they intended to poison it. They just didn't use a strong > enough dose of arsenic, and created a monster with all the > workarounds. > > None of which ever worked 100% because the web pages all seemed to be > using a different version. The "it works here" syndrome, essentially > the same as the N.I.H. beliefs. :( Well, I'm glad flash is dying. Wish it would do so faster. On my Wheezy system my primary browser is Chrome, deprecated and unsupported for over a year now. Or has it been two? No new versions available. Pepperflash stopped working a few months ago. Never could fix it. So, just disabled it. And the funny thing is, I rarely run into sites now that require it anymore. HTML5 is being adopted rapidly. Still there are hold-outs. To be expected. As far as "works here," my primary system is a very non-standard install of Wheezy 64-bit on a box I built 10 years ago. (Hardware's been upgraded numerous times since.) Started with a Base Install Terminal Only, and built it up from there. Window manager only. No display manager, no udisks, etc. Even wrote my own udev rules. Anyway, I figure if something works on my system, it should work on any "standard" system with all the Bells and Whistles, Linux or otherwise. B
