On Sat, 28 Mar 2015 at 17:07 Erik Christiansen <dvalin@internode.on.net> wrote:
"Adobe Flash" is enabled on www.youtube.com
Youtube doesn't use flash by default, at least on recent browsers, any more in favour of the HTML5 player. I don't know what happens with the older IceWeasel however. I would recommend downloading the latest Chrome (which also comes with latest Flash) or Firefox and see if that helps. Chrome you can download as Debian package. Firefox can get downloaded and run as a non-root user, it doesn't need to get installed as root. In case a bit of non-free might provide the missing functionality, I
added to sources.lst:
# non-free multimedia stuff. Mirror for http://deb-multimedia.org/ deb http://mirror.optus.net/deb-multimedia/ stable main deb-src http://mirror.optus.net/deb-multimedia/ stable main
And then as root: # apt-get install deb-multimedia-keyring # apt-get update # apt-get dist-upgrade
The latter includes a new iceweasel, but no change in behaviour.
Non-free should not work. Also not that the deb-multimedia people don't coordinate properly with the Debian Multimedia team (which is a pity), and as a result the Debian Multimedia team recommend you don't use deb-multimedia: https://wiki.debian.org/DebianMultimedia/FAQ Having said that the multimedia packages in wheezy are old, possibly broken, and deb-multimedia is a convenient way to get something newer without upgrading to Jessie. It is unlikely to help Youtube issues however. If there's a debian-compatible package for firefox anywhere, then that'd
perhaps be the best way around this mess. If not, does anyone know how iceweasel might be coaxed to perform this basic function?
You don't need a Debian package. Just download the package from upstream, and install in, say $HOME/firefox and run $HOME/firefox/firefox