[lubuntu-users] Firefox playing flash

2016-07-16 Thread Ian Bruntlett
Hi, I'm testing a system that has had problems with the i915 graphics driver in the past. At the moment it is running Lubuntu 16.04 LTS GNU/Linux and everything is fine. However, I haven't activated flash playback in Firefox, yet. In the run up to Firefox 47 (I think), I was led to believe that F

[lubuntu-users] Firefox playing flash

2016-07-17 Thread Eric Bradshaw
Hi, I'm testing a system that has had problems with the i915 graphics driver in the past. At the moment it is running Lubuntu 16.04 LTS GNU/Linux and everything is fine. However, I haven't activated flash playback in Firefox, yet. In the run up to Firefox 47 (I think), I was led to believe that

Re: [lubuntu-users] Firefox playing flash

2016-07-16 Thread Aere Greenway
On 07/16/2016 10:43 AM, Ian Bruntlett wrote: Hi, I'm testing a system that has had problems with the i915 graphics driver in the past. At the moment it is running Lubuntu 16.04 LTS GNU/Linux and everything is fine. However, I haven't activated flash playback in Firefox, yet. In the run up t

Re: [lubuntu-users] Firefox playing flash

2016-07-16 Thread Ian Bruntlett
Hi Aere & Jorn, On 16 July 2016 at 18:55, Aere Greenway wrote: > There is a package in the Ubuntu repository called flashplugin-instcaller, > which (after you install it) will install the flash-plugin version for > Linux on your machine, which then works in FireFox. > > I have been using that su

Re: [lubuntu-users] Firefox playing flash

2016-07-17 Thread Israel
On 07/16/2016 01:02 PM, Ian Bruntlett wrote: Hi Aere & Jorn, On 16 July 2016 at 18:55, Aere Greenway > wrote: There is a package in the Ubuntu repository called flashplugin-instcaller, which (after you install it) will install the flash-plugin vers

Re: [lubuntu-users] Firefox playing flash

2016-07-17 Thread Andre Campos Rodovalho
> It might be good to see if you *need* to use flash before installing it. I Agree. Not all websites use HTML5 tecnology to play videos and animation. But most popular services have already migrated to avoid the flash pain... 2016-07-17 9:31 GMT-03:00 Israel : > On 07/16/2016 01:02 PM, Ian Brun

Re: [lubuntu-users] Firefox playing flash

2016-07-18 Thread John Hupp
On 7/18/2016 2:45 AM, Eric Bradshaw wrote: Hi, I'm testing a system that has had problems with the i915 graphics driver in the past. At the moment it is running Lubuntu 16.04 LTS GNU/Linux and everything is fine. However, I haven't activated flash playback in Firefox, yet. In the run up to

Re: [lubuntu-users] Firefox playing flash

2016-07-18 Thread Ian Bruntlett
Hi All, On 18 July 2016 at 14:56, John Hupp wrote: > I wasn't the original poster, but I wanted to salute the comprehensive > review. Nice, Eric! > Oops. I was the original poster. Thanks, too, Eric! BW, Ian -- -- ACCU - Professionalism in programming - http://www.accu.org -- My writing -

Re: [lubuntu-users] Firefox playing flash

2016-07-18 Thread Israel
Hi one quick correction below, On 07/18/2016 01:45 AM, Eric Bradshaw wrote: DRM-protected services (Netflix, Hulu, Amazon) will often need HAL; the Hardware Abstraction Layer. sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mjblenner/ppa-hal -y sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install hal libhal1 -y Ne