[DONE] MGA4: Flash Doesn't Work in Chromium or Firefox

[endat]

So every time I go to a page that has Flash, it pops up with a graphic of a puzzle piece saying that I need to install the plugin.. I've installed the plugin from Adobe, didn't work.. So I browsed through the forums and found out you need to install a special Mageia Flash plugin (why?) and that didn't work either. The system and browsers have been restarted and it still will not recognize the Flash plugin. I've been at it for about an hour (in other OS, it takes 5 minutes) and I give up.. I'm very frustrated with all the time I'm wasting to get Flash working.. there are a lot of threads here about getting Flash to work, I went through them all and none helped. Here is my info:

Chromium Version 34.0.1847.137 Mageia.Org 4 (268882)
Firefox Version 24.6.0 (whatever came with mga4)

urpmq --list-media active

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[root@localhost endat]# urpmq --list-media active
Core Release (distrib1)
Core Updates (distrib3)
Nonfree Release (distrib11)
Nonfree Updates (distrib13)
Tainted Release (distrib21)
Tainted Updates (distrib23)


rpm -qa | grep -e chrom -e flash

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[root@localhost endat]# rpm -qa | grep -e chrom -e flash
kipi-plugins-flashexport-3.5.0-3.mga4
x11-driver-video-openchrome-0.3.3-6.mga4
flash-player-plugin-kde-11.2.202.394-1.mga4.nonfree
flash-player-plugin-11.2.202.394-1.mga4.nonfree
chromium-browser-stable-34.0.1847.137-1.mga4


[benmc]

Hi

You may have to install the Pepper player for Chromium as I understand it no longer supports Adobe flash-player.
also go to your " system settings " [ spanner + screwdriver ] and see if flash player is listed as " lost " at the bottom of the page.

[filip]

This [MAQeia] Flashplayer Plugin (32 & 64-bits) thread might help.

[endat]

Thanks for the responses guys

Hi

You may have to install the Pepper player for Chromium as I understand it no longer supports Adobe flash-player.
also go to your " system settings " [ spanner + screwdriver ] and see if flash player is listed as " lost " at the bottom of the page.

Flash player is listed in the "Network and Connectivity" section.. I've never heard of pepper player, but I might try it..

This [MAQeia] Flashplayer Plugin (32 & 64-bits) thread might help.

I've done all the suggestions from that thread, it might be outdated info as the newest post is 2 years old.

Like I said, Flash is no problem in other OS.. I might have to try Chrome instead of Chromium, or another OS instead of Mageia

[filip]

This [MAQeia] Flashplayer Plugin (32 & 64-bits) thread might help.

I've done all the suggestions from that thread, it might be outdated info as the newest post is 2 years old.

Top post was last edited in September 2013. If you post there it'll maybe help doktor5000 to update it if needed.

[doktor5000]

This [MAQeia] Flashplayer Plugin (32 & 64-bits) thread might help.

I've done all the suggestions from that thread, it might be outdated info as the newest post is 2 years old.

The instructions in there are still valid, only thing that was outdated was the version in the first post, but that doesn't change anything.

For your issue, you did restart Firefox after you installed/uninstalled a plugin?
What does about:plugins in Firefox show?


As stated in the MAQeia and from personal experience, on a fresh Mageia install you only need to enable nonfree repositories,
and then install flash-player-plugin. Then start firefox and flash works. This is even simplied by MageiaWelcome ...

[filip]

As stated in the MAQeia and from personal experience, on a fresh Mageia install you only need to enable nonfree repositories,
and then install flash-player-plugin. Then start firefox and flash works. This is even simplied by MageiaWelcome ...

It's the same from my experiences too.

[endat]

Flash doesn't show up in the about:plugins for Chromium or FireFox. I remember it working before.. it had weird display issues, but it worked.

Come to think of it, this is probably my fault.. I have been doing QT4 development lately and it might have stopped working after I did some experiments trying to get Flash working within WebView.

Installing Chrome alleviated the flash issue.. it came with 14.0.0.145 (Pepper-based Flash Player) and doesn't have the weird display issues that 11.2.202.394 had.

I didn't see pepper in MCC. How do I install this pepper-based Flash player for Chromium/FireFox? Would that installation carry over to GTK or QT's WebView?

[endat]

Could I just copy the following file to replace libflashplayer.so or would it crash because of their differences?

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/opt/google/chrome/PepperFlash/libpepflashplayer.so

edit: I read a post by doktor5000 saying Chromium from the cauldron can use this..

[ghmitch]

Flash Player for Linux is no longer being updated by Adobe. It continues to be updated by Adobe for Windows and Mac. Thus more and more flash sites encounter problems when viewed via Linux. Pepper IS being updated by Adobe. It is built into Chrome (which is my goto when Firefox flounders) and can be added to Chromium. As far as I know, Pepper is unsupported by Firefox, thus there is currently no real Flash solution for Firefox Flash problems. Chrome is the way to go if you can tolerate proprietary software, otherwise, you will need to tweak Chromium to use Pepper. The howtos on it are out there.

[ozky]

Hi

You may have to install the Pepper player for Chromium as I understand it no longer supports Adobe flash-player.
also go to your " system settings " [ spanner + screwdriver ] and see if flash player is listed as " lost " at the bottom of the page.

Chromium 34 supports still adobe flash,chromium/chrome 35 obsoleted npapi plugin support they will only support pepper flash.

[endat]

Ill just mark as solved.. It's not fixed but it's no longer important to me.

edit: I remarked it as [DONE]

[doktor5000]

Then mark it as [DONE].