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Re: adobe flash player in Iceweasel does not work anymore in Jessie



On Friday 11 September 2015 17:16:24 David Wright wrote:
> Quoting Brian (ad44@cityscape.co.uk):
> > On Fri 11 Sep 2015 at 14:40:03 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> > > On Friday 11 September 2015 13:10:50 Brian wrote:
> > > > You may or may not have seen this:
> > > >
> > > > http://www.channel4.com/4viewers/faq/name/i-am-being-warned-i-am-usin
> > > >g-an-a d-blocker/id/503978858
> > >
> > > Thanks, Brian.  I have already allowed tracking, history, cookies and
> > > pop-ups. :-(

Ironically, on my computer, which is running Channel 4 fine, I have pop-ups 
blocked, tracking blocked, some history blocked, but I am allowing cookies.

> > Isn't it more about plugins or even some standalone program you have
> > running? A look at 'ps ax' is worth it. Running Iceweasel from a new,
> > different account might narrow it down.
>
> I do that as a matter of course for security reasons. It does lead
> to one wrinkle, though. Pulse audio won't let both users play sound
> at the same time so one or other (flash on the browser, me running
> xmms under my own account) stalls. I don't know if this could be
> relevant to Lisi.
>
> I've yet to investigate the snags in running pulse audio at a system
> level rather than as a user.

It isn't sound I am having problems with at this moment, David. ;-)

On the two boxen I am running the same version of Iceweasel, on the same 
version of the same desktop, on the same version of the same OS, and it is 
very different, with different settings available.  I'll have try setting up 
a new user and see what transpires.

Lisi


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