[SOLVED] Firefox flashplugin update

cyker · 2014-11-14 05:40:40

It seems that flashplugin has ceased:

The NPAPI version can be installed with the flashplugin package from the official repositories. This plugin was discontinued by Adobe and is stuck at version 11.2, although security updates will be provided for another 5 years by Adobe (i.e. 2017).

So is there a way to let firefox use the up-to-date version of flash?

Last edited by cyker (2014-11-15 03:21:38)

Scimmia · 2014-11-14 05:56:42

There's no such thing as "up-to-date version of flash" when you're on Linux. You can go to pepper-flash in chrome, but that's about it.

cyker · 2014-11-14 06:01:23

Scimmia wrote:

There's no such thing as "up-to-date version of flash" when you're on Linux. You can go to pepper-flash in chrome, but that's about it.

Well, obviously 11.2 is an old version. I do have Chrome and pepper, but Firefox is still not able to play some video because 11.2 is too old.

karol · 2014-11-14 06:09:59

Post the url of a video that doesn't work.

cyker · 2014-11-14 07:36:04

karol wrote:

Post the url of a video that doesn't work.

Well, I think the one I met with has geo location restriction so you may not see the same thing. But there must be videos requiring a higher version of flash.

Last edited by cyker (2014-11-14 07:37:29)

karol · 2014-11-14 07:49:43

I'm not an expert, but I've only seen this wrt flash 10.
yt never complained, so I'm curious where does this happen.

ReiserFS · 2014-11-14 08:29:10

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/fres … lugin-git/

karol · 2014-11-14 09:05:42

ReiserFS wrote:

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/fres … lugin-git/

I that's what Scimmia talked about https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 9#p1475279

Did you find any videos that didn't work with the stock flash but did work with freshplayerplugin or some similar package?

cyker · 2014-11-14 10:04:37

ReiserFS wrote:

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/fres … lugin-git/

Thanks! This one does solve my problem.

BTW, now I have both this and flashplugin installed. How does Firefox know which one to use?

Also, does it have any security issues?

karol · 2014-11-14 13:26:42

cyker wrote:

Also, does it have any security issues?

https://github.com/i-rinat/freshplayerplugin

Security note
All available Pepper Plugin API documentation usually accompanied with assertions of enhanced security due to active sandboxing usage. It's worth to note, that API itself doesn't make any sandboxing, it's only allows sandboxed implementations. This particular implementation doesn't implement any sandbox. That means if any malicious code breaks through plugin security, there is no additional barriers.

Lone_Wolf · 2014-11-14 13:27:45

yes, there are.

https://github.com/i-rinat/freshplayerplugin wrote:

Security note
All available Pepper Plugin API documentation usually accompanied with assertions of enhanced security due to active sandboxing usage. It's worth to note, that API itself doesn't make any sandboxing, it's only allows sandboxed implementations. This particular implementation doesn't implement any sandbox. That means if any malicious code breaks through plugin security, there is no additional barriers.

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