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w201

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[SOLVED] Adobe Flash Player (Flashplugin) Stopped Working

I've been circumventing the problem with flashplugin on Firefox by following the instructions on this page:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Br … er_upgrade

... but those instructions stopped working for some reason. I know there's lightspark, gnash and some have recommended freshplayerplugin from the AUR. Wanted to see if there are any other workarounds before ditching flash player.

Last edited by w201 (2015-07-14 04:35:04)

jasonwryan

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Re: [SOLVED] Adobe Flash Player (Flashplugin) Stopped Working

May as well move to something else; it has been EOL'ed https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/blocked/p946

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w201

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Re: [SOLVED] Adobe Flash Player (Flashplugin) Stopped Working

Yea, might as well. Thanks!

Anybody care to share your thoughts on what are some good alternatives for playing youtube videos...

Last edited by w201 (2015-07-14 03:53:42)

Scimmia

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Re: [SOLVED] Adobe Flash Player (Flashplugin) Stopped Working

For YouTube, forget flash, use HTML5

w201

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Re: [SOLVED] Adobe Flash Player (Flashplugin) Stopped Working

TBH, I thought devs were still working out some quirks in HTML5, but seems to work pretty smoothly. Well, I guess that solves my problem! Thanks.

cirrus

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Re: [SOLVED] Adobe Flash Player (Flashplugin) Stopped Working

Anybody care to share your thoughts on what are some good alternatives for playing youtube videos...

https://github.com/mps-youtube/mps-youtube

It is in the Community repo should you wish to check it out, i highly recommend.  Also ' mpv <youtube URL> '  will play you tube videos, provided youtube-dl is installed.

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w201

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Re: [SOLVED] Adobe Flash Player (Flashplugin) Stopped Working

Thanks for the suggestion, cirrus. I do have youtube-dl installed; I needed to d/l a few videos a while back. Before Scimmia suggested HTML5 I tried Gnash- huge file, didn't install, aborted with errors- I'm just glad I don't have to deal with flash anymore.