Re: adobe flash player in iceweasel does not work anymore in jessie

[Paul van der Vlis <paul@vandervlis.nl>]

Op 10-09-15 om 14:37 schreef Brian:
> On Wed 09 Sep 2015 at 23:41:45 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> 
>> On Wednesday 09 September 2015 20:31:50 Paul van der Vlis wrote:
>>>
>>> flashplayer-mozilla will install the same flashplayer as
>>> flashplugin-nonfree. But there is a big difference between the
>>> flashplayer what't installed in Chromium. Chromium is better in flash.
>>
>> And won't play Channel 4.
> 
> Are we sure, as Paul says, it is the same flashplayer? The plugin from
> Adobe, which is what flashplugin-nonfree installs:
> 
>   brian@desktop:~$ ls -l libflashplayer.so 
>   -rw-rw-r-- 1 brian brian 17459332 Aug  7 19:50 libflashplayer.so
> 
> The plugin from flashplayer-mozilla:
> 
>   brian@desktop:~$ ls -l libflashplayer.so 
>   -rw-r--r-- 1 brian brian 17432460 Aug 11 18:14 libflashplayer.so
> 
> The md5sums are different too. Now, why is that and does it matter?
> The respective packages are based on the same source.
> 
>   http://www.adobe.com/uk/software/flash/about/
> 
> identifies both plugins as the same version.

This is an interesting question. I have no idea, I have never studied
flashplayer-mozilla. Is there any documentation about it?

With regards,
Paul van der Vlis.



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