HOW-TO: Use the latest version of Flash with Firefox

[GreyGeek]

Thanks, Steve, your instructions worked perfectly.
You're amazing, man!

[oldgeek]

I used the second line to uninstall flash, and it seemed to work. Here's what you requested:

steve@steve-desktop:~$ dpkg -l | grep -i flash
ii  flashplugin-installer                       11.2.202.418ubuntu0.14.04.1            amd64        Adobe Flash Player plugin installer
ii  pepperflashplugin-nonfree                   1.3ubuntu1                             amd64        Pepper Flash Player - browser plugin

steve@steve-desktop:~$ ll -R /usr/lib/mozilla
/usr/lib/mozilla:
total 44
drwxr-xr-x   3 root root  4096 oct 26 20:57 ./
drwxr-xr-x 144 root root 36864 nov 14 20:09 ../
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root  4096 nov 14 20:08 plugins/

/usr/lib/mozilla/plugins:
total 8
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 nov 14 20:08 ./
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 oct 26 20:57 ../
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   37 nov 11 21:46 flashplugin-alternative.so -> /etc/alternatives/mozilla-flashplugin
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   54 nov  9 16:15 libfreshwrapper-pepperflash.so -> ../../freshplayerplugin/libfreshwrapper-pepperflash.so

This doesn't tell me anything. By the way, it seems to work fine. I was just curious.

[vinnywright]

+1 worked nicely ,,,,,,,,,still wont play amazon prime instant video though

VINNY

[SteveRiley]

A question--when I go into Firefox plugins, it says I have Shockwave Flash version 13.1.2.3, as well as the old 11.2.etc Shockwave Flash. Wasn't the old Flash uninstalled? And why does Firefox report Flash 13 when YouTube reports Flash 15?

Did you follow step #1 and remove the old plugin first?

What's the output of

dpkg -l | grep -i flash

ll -R /usr/lib/mozilla

[Snowhog]

Thank you Steve. Just followed your instructions. Worked perfectly.

[oldgeek]

Thanks, the installation went smoothly, and I checked the version using YouTube and got the same version you did. A question--when I go into Firefox plugins, it says I have Shockwave Flash version 13.1.2.3, as well as the old 11.2.etc Shockwave Flash. Wasn't the old Flash uninstalled? And why does Firefox report Flash 13 when YouTube reports Flash 15?

[blackpaw]

Thanks, works great

[Rod J]

Unfortunately, it looks like Kubuntu 12.04 isn't supported. I got up to the add repository step and I saw this:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:thad-fisch/freshplayerpluginYou are about to add the following PPA to your system:
 ppapi2npapi compatibility layer
===============================

Supported Ubuntu versions:
- 14.10 (utopic)
- 14.04 (trusty)

=== Information ==
Please visit the github project site to report and track bugs:
https://github.com/i-rinat/freshplayerplugin

=== Configuration ===
Example configuration file:
/usr/share/doc/freshplayerplugin/freshwrapper.conf.example

 More info: https://launchpad.net/~thad-fisch/+archive/ubuntu/freshplayerplugin
Press [ENTER] to continue or ctrl-c to cancel adding it
^CTraceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/add-apt-repository", line 182, in <module>
    sys.stdin.readline()
KeyboardInterrupt
rod@Pentium-DualCore:~$

I cancelled out of it.

[marco07]

Thank you Steve!
Istallation was smooth in Kubuntu 14.10 plasma-5 on my test partition on a desktop. I am going to install it on my laptops with kubuntu 14.04 as well.

[mbohets]

Thx, install went smoothly

[Qqmike]

Nice job. Very nice, concise history-status-summary, too, for those of us who don't diligently follow every detail of these things. Thanks!

[geoaraujo]

While YouTube has transitioned to HTML5, there are several sites on the web that still use Flash only. Quite a number of games also require Flash. While its use is generally on the decline, it'll be a few more years before Flash disappears completely. So rather than pretend it doesn't exist, let's ensure that people can have a decent and safe experience until the day Flash actually does go away.

Thank you!

[SteveRiley]

While YouTube has transitioned to HTML5, there are several sites on the web that still use Flash only. Quite a number of games also require Flash. While its use is generally on the decline, it'll be a few more years before Flash disappears completely. So rather than pretend it doesn't exist, let's ensure that people can have a decent and safe experience until the day Flash actually does go away.

[anika200]

One should be on the side of transparency, why would we want to prolong flash anyway or pepper flesh ...?

[MoonRise]

I should have known better anyway!!


EDIT: Yea!