On 28.03.15 17:37, Craig Sanders wrote:
I gave up on flash / youtube / other videos in firefox/iceweasel ages ago. mostly because i don't want to enable all the scripting that video sites "require" on my main browser. recent versions of iceweasel in experimental have great support for HTML5 videos but I still don't want to watch videos in my primary browser.
Thanks, Craig. I think I'll try that since Chromium works on youtube, but barfs on a BBC clip. I followed your link, and did a "dpkg -i" on the latest Midori. (The forewarned dependency issues did not materialise) It won't play the BBC clip either. I'm beginning to doubt that any of the browsers can find my only copy of flashplayer: /usr/local/src/install_flash_player_9_linux/libflashplayer.so If this is what they're using, then we end up at libgnashplugin.so $ ls /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins flash-mozilla.so@ libgnome-shell-browser-plugin.so librhythmbox-itms-detection-plugin.so $ ll /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/flash-mozilla.so lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 34 Mar 19 23:14 /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/flash-mozilla.so -> /etc/alternatives/flash-mozilla.so $ ll /etc/alternatives/flash-mozilla.so lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 32 Mar 19 23:14 /etc/alternatives/flash-mozilla.so -> /usr/lib/gnash/libgnashplugin.so $ ll /usr/lib/gnash/libgnashplugin.so -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 296392 Jan 23 2014 /usr/lib/gnash/libgnashplugin.so Damn! I just did: # rm /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/flash-mozilla.so # ln -s /usr/local/src/install_flash_player_9_linux/libflashplayer.so \ /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/flash-mozilla.so and I still get "You need to install Flash Player to play this content."
instead, i installed Chromium, the open-source version of google chrome. this has an updated flash player built-in (newer than the stand-alone linux version which works with firefox). Watching youtube etc videos is pretty much the only thing i use Chromium for, so i'm not too worried about the tracking spyware.
I loaded the chromium .deb, and youtube works. Sadly, trying a clip on the BBC, I still get "You need to install Flash Player to play this content." And then we're back to no Debian .deb, the closest being ubuntu. Mind you, they also say there that Flash Player 11.2 is the last which will target linux. I wonder what we're to use after that.
I use the adblock and NotScripts plugins for chromium, so javascript is disabled on sites by default unless I turn it on.
BTW, i use yet another browser (Midori) for facebook, which (unfortunately) is the only way i can keep in touch with some friends....and, again, I never use that browser for anything else. Of course, I enable the adblock plugin for midori too.
I'll poke around with these a bit, and see if I can coax any of them to actually use the flashplayer that's on my system. Many thanks. Erik -- "I get them to go around the classroom pretending to be sheep and then I read them Psalm 23." ... Any kids opting out of scripture were required to waste their time. It is expressly forbidden for children doing non-scripture to learn anything useful - because that would disadvantage those children doing scripture. - http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-03-03/riminton-the-conflicted-ethics-teacher...