On 12/22/2014 11:53 AM, ToddAndMargo wrote:
On 12/22/2014 10:35 AM, Chris Schanzle wrote:
On 12/22/2014 12:51 PM, Yasha Karant wrote:
We have end users that we support on machines currently running IA-32
SL6x who need Adobe Flash capability in a Mozilla Firefox browser.
From Adobe (presumably under the influence/control of the Microsoft
monopoly):
*NOTE*: Adobe Flash Player 11.2 will be the last version to target
Linux as a supported platform. Adobe will continue to provide security
backports to Flash Player 11.2 for Linux.
Is there a replacement for the Adobe Flash Player? Is there a
version/replacement that properly works with x86-64 SL7 using a 64 bit
Firefox?
Yasha Karant
What's the problem here? Flash is available for 32 and 64-bit browsers,
use their yum repo. Just because the version is older than others,
doesn't mean it is insecure or won't do the job.
Hi Chris,
Firefox flags the out-of-date Flash plugin as a security hazard.
-T
Hi Yasha,
I do not know if this will help at all, but I install
the "You Tube All HTLM5" extension on all my customer's machines to
get them off of Flash as much as possible:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtube-all-html5
It is also faster at rendering than Flash is. Well at least
it corrects a lot of lag problems on You Tube (problem
may be You Tube, not Flash).
Also, because iOS (iPhone, iPad, etc.) does not support Flash,
it seriously behooves your clients to switch to HTML5 (I do recommend
this to my clients).
-T
Todd,
These are not my clients (customers) in the for-profit business sense of
the word. These typically are colleagues who need Linux
support that the regular IT channels at my university will not provide:
the IT unit only supports "current" MS Windows with their configuration
or, in so far as Apple supports it, Mac OS X. Some of these
colleagues, such as the one who raised this issue, is a retired faculty
member who still serves as an editor on a major international social
science journal. I got sick and tired of trying to make MS Windows work
on her machine, and got her to switch to EL . Support problems vanished
under EL -- and with Crossover to support the particular (obsolete)
versions of the MS Office suite that she must use (I have attempted to
get her to switch to Open/LibreOffice, but to no avail -- she also does
not like the current MS Office suite user interface and typically will
not use it although it is installed under MS Win under VirtualBox).
However, the journal and some of her colleagues present material that
requires Flash, and Flash is an "accepted" standard by her journal.
Thus, I must support Flash format material.
Is there a mechanism to force Linux Firefox *NOT* to use the Firefox
"old and insecure" database that Firefox uses for MS Win? Although her
current machine is X86-64, as with my own laptop, it is
under-provisioned for a 64 bit environment. It will run, but not well
and may be unstable. Understand that the above mentioned colleague will
have ten or more GUI intensive applications open at the same time -- not
just a word processor, a spreadsheet, and a web browser. Hence I have
left her at IA-32 SL6x.
Since my most recent posting on this matter, I have found:
http://www.ehow.com/how_8409438_use-instead-flash-player-firefox.html
How to Use VLC Instead of Flash Player in Firefox
VLC is an open-source cross-platform media player. It allows you to play
standard video and audio formats from files on your computer, and also
use the Firefox add-on to watch videos online through the browser. VLC's
Firefox add-on uses fewer resources on the computer than Flash player
does, so you can accomplish more while the video is running without
programs having to stop or wait.
End quote.
Is anyone using Firefox on EL doing the above? If so, how and does it
provide the needed functionality? Is the necessary software available
from USA repositories or do intellectual property restrictions only
allow it to be distributed, say, in the EU?
Thanks,
Yasha
