Re: flash in stretch again
I really recommend that you switch up to Opera and forget about Chromium
and Firefox for a number of reasons. It uses much less resources, native
AdBlock, embedded free VPN for your privacy concerns, it uses chromium
engine to render pages, pop up video, Speed Dial, etc, etc.
http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/10-things/10-reasons-why-you-should-use-the-opera-browser/
https://www.windowscentral.com/why-switch-opera-browser
Your issue is also why I've migrated it and I'm not willing to go back,
I don't keep track of every single change that happens with Debian and
Mozilla. Before I used to compile a kernel specific to my machine, now I
just want to install the thing and use it.
I just have enough of this, Firefox is out of Debian, now is back again,
now Firefox stop working with flash and you have to do some Voodoo magic
to make it work until the next update that will brake flash player all
over again.
To make flash, h.264 and html5 work on Opera, all you have to do is this.
1. Download the ".tar.gz" version
https://get.adobe.com/br/flashplayer/
2. Download the last pre-build nwjs-ffmpeg
https://github.com/iteufel/nwjs-ffmpeg-prebuilt/releases/
3. Install some nice fonts
pt-get install ttf-linux-libertine ttf-freefont ttf-mscorefonts-installer
4. Download and install Opera
http://www.opera.com/
5. Open Opera and at the top left cornet, click at the red Opera logo
and go "about opera". Check where it is installed, my is something like
this.
Installed: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera
6. Decompress nwjs-ffmpeg and copy the "libffmpeg.so" to where your
Opera is installed.
Restart Opera, that's it!
Youtube videos, Facebook videos, cnn, and animations should be working,
if you test for html5 on Youtube, all should be blue.
https://www.youtube.com/html5
If you still need flash player:
1. Decompress the flashplayer
tar -zxvf flash_player_ppapi_linux.x86_64.tar.gz
2. Create the plugins directory as root or using sudo
mkdir /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera/plugins
3. Copy libpepflashplayer.so to plugins directory
cp libpepflashplayer.so /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera/plugins
Restart Opera.
You can use the Debian version:
https://wiki.debian.org/Opera
Please note that you have to update the nwjs-ffmpeg every time a new
Opera version arrives.
On 22-06-2017 02:31, Maureen L Thomas wrote:
I just updated some packages and it upgraded me to stretch. That is all
fine but I cannot get flash to work yet again. Is there any help out
there for this program. I even installed Chromium with pepperflash and
it won't work either. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I am running on an AMD A8, Toshiba satellite, with stretch. Thanks.
Maureen
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