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200Dave
January 23rd, 2016, 06:04 PM
Try installing Pepper Flash Player. Easy Breezy

https://wiki.debian.org/PepperFlashPlayer/Installing
oldos2er
January 23rd, 2016, 07:13 PM
Not an Ubuntu support request; moved to Cafe.
yoshii
January 23rd, 2016, 08:01 PM
what about support for Trusty? That doesn't seem to be in the linked page... ?
ajgreeny
January 23rd, 2016, 09:34 PM
what about support for Trusty? That doesn't seem to be in the linked page... ?
You can already add all that's needed for trusty by enabling the canonical partner repos and installing adobe-flashplugin which gives you the latest flash version for chromium, 20.0.0.267; you can use the same flash version in firefox by enabling the nilarimogard-webupd8 repos at http://ppa.launchpad.net/nilarimogard/webupd8/ubuntu and installing freshplayerplugin.
poorguy
January 23rd, 2016, 10:56 PM
what are the adobe flash player issues.
Christopher_Stayne
January 25th, 2016, 12:32 AM
The only issue I have seen is where it doesnt seem to work under Chromium. I installed pepper flash but have yet to see if it made any difference.
Mike_Walsh
January 25th, 2016, 12:59 AM
I find it works perfectly under Chromium. I've even written a tutorial on the Puppy Linux Forums about using the most up-to-date PepperFlash with an older Chromium browser; it's very easy to swap the 'libpepflashplayer.so' module around.

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=101275

Puppy's a wee bit different, of course.....but the underlying principle remains the same. It should be adaptable to Ubuntu, if you want to try it.


Mike. ;)
poorguy
January 25th, 2016, 04:59 PM
Guess I have been lucky as I am not having any problems with chromium.
In firefox I no longer use adobe flash anything and no more firefox problems.
MPV player for firefox seems to take care of any flash needs.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/watch-with-mpv/
ajgreeny
January 25th, 2016, 08:59 PM
I can not figure out why you are having the problem with flash, nor why you seem to need to install the pepperflash-plugin which I understood was no longer being developed.

For the record, I have just yesterday installed Lubuntu 14.04.3 on an old netbook with an Atom CPU, 1GB ram, and 160GB HDD, added Adobe-flashplugin from the partner repos, and freshplayerplugin from the nilarimogard repos.

I now have flash version 20.0.0.267 working well in both Firefox and Chromium according to http://www.adobe.com/uk/software/flash/about/
night_sky2
January 26th, 2016, 03:04 AM
Good old' Adobe Flash 11.2 for Firefox works well for my needs. It's pretty stable and no issue.

I still receive security updates once in a while so no complaint there.
ajgreeny
January 26th, 2016, 01:51 PM
Good old' Adobe Flash 11.2 for Firefox works well for my needs. It's pretty stable and no issue.

I still receive security updates once in a while so no complaint there.
That would be fine except for the very few sites that insist on flash version above 15 (I think it was 15) and refuse to work with the 11.2 default version in Linux.
night_sky2
January 27th, 2016, 02:01 AM
That would be fine except for the very few sites that insist on flash version above 15 (I think it was 15) and refuse to work with the 11.2 default version in Linux.
Yeah but I haven't encountered many of those websites. I don't bother with them anyway.

Adobe flash 11+ is still accepted pretty much everywhere. That is because Android is stuck on the 11xx branch as well.
monkeybrain20122
January 27th, 2016, 09:56 AM
Yeah but I haven't encountered many of those websites. I don't bother with them anyway.

Adobe flash 11+ is still accepted pretty much everywhere. That is because Android is stuck on the 11xx branch as well.

But this guy is apparently having problems http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2311381&p=13429722#post13429722

Personally I seldom need flash so I actually disable it in Firefox and use the mpv addon instead. It works for most sites I visit anyway.
night_sky2
January 27th, 2016, 09:41 PM
But this guy is apparently having problems http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2311381&p=13429722#post13429722
You're right but as ajgreeny pointed out above, there are very few of those websites causing trouble at this point. The issue is that they specifically require adobe flash 15+, which obviously won't work with the 11.2 plugin for Firefox on Linux. It all depends on your needs, to me, I can live with it (still accepted in the vast majority of flash sites) and switch to HTML5 wherever available.