Pepperflash for Firefox?

[jdkl81]

Hi again. I greatly appreciated all of your help with my installation of Firefox 35 on my Mageia 4 laptop, however, I have found that I cannot install Adobe flash player on this browser, either from the repository or from adobe's website directly. It sounds like from what I'm reading that these later versions of firefox don't support such plugins. I've been reading here and elsewhere about a pepperflash and freshplayer workaround. I have downloaded Google Chrome per the instructions here and added the signing key. This brings me to a few questions. First I get the feeling that this is perhaps a pretty advanced project and as some of you remember, I had some trouble with the fairly simple task of installing Firefox 35 from terminal, so I don't know if this has been reduced to a fairly simple process by the community or it's still an advanced user project. Second, if you all think this is not an appropriate project, is there some way that I'm missing to run flash content in Firefox or should I just use Chrome? For YouTube I currently use the HTML5 player suggested here which works well, but often run into flash content on Facebook and a few sports and news sites. What are your suggestions? Thanks in advance.

[doktor5000]

Why can't you install the flash plugin, either from repository or the Adobe website, what is the error message?

And it's not firefox that doesn't support plugins anymore, but Chrome, this is explained in our MAQeia for Chrome:

Chromium 35 and issues with plugins
Since version 35, chromium doesn't support browser plugins anymore. See http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0413.html
and the thread viewtopic.php?f=7&t=8568 for more information.
See http://blog.chromium.org/2013/09/saying ... npapi.html or http://blog.chromium.org/2014/05/update ... ation.html for more information on why and when the support for NPAPI browser plugins has been dropped.

pepperflash & freshplayerplugin are explained in our MAQeia for Flashplayer plugin:

Alternatives to Adobes Flashplayer plugin
- pepperflash plugin (aka Flash plugin maintained by Google and bundled with Chrome) which can also be used with Firefox

The other alternative would be to simply install Chrome. This is also explained in the abovementioned MAQeia for Chrome.

[jdkl81]

Yeah I thought I understood that Chromium was the one that stopped supporting plugins. It will appear that the plugin was installed and then a check of the Firefox browser through the menu-addons-plugins path does not show flash as an installed plugin. In every other Linux or Windows install Flash has been pretty easy. I'll try again and see what I come up with.

[doktor5000]

Well, the flash installation is easy. Install the flash-player-plugin package from Mageia repos, and restart firefox.

[jdkl81]

I agree, it should be easy. If I go into the Mageia control center, and look for adobe flash plugin it is checked, yet if I check my add-ons in Firefox, I can't find it, and on sites like ESPN that require flash player to display content, I get the message that I must get flash player to display the content. It should be easy, but I've tried. Perhaps I am an idiot, but I wonder if there is any other way to check for the plugin. I have also tried the route of dowloading directly from adobe from the Firefox link. I would love to show you an error message but even when working this out with the Konsole open, I see no output. It's as if I'm asking the system to install the latest plugin to no effect.

[doktor5000]

Please provide the output as normal user of

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rpm -qa | grep flash
ls -al /usr/$(rpm -E %_lib)/mozilla/plugins
grep -A2 -i flash ~/.mozilla/firefox/*default/pluginreg.dat

and post what you see in firefox when entering about:plugins into the adress bar.

[jdkl81]

Thanks Doktor....here is what I get.

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[jdkl81@localhost ~]$ rpm -qa | grep flash
flash-player-plugin-11.2.202.442-1.mga4.nonfree
[jdkl81@localhost ~]$ ls -al /usr/$(rpm -E %_lib)/mozilla/plugins
total 8
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 25 01:01 ./
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Feb  5 11:59 ../
[jdkl81@localhost ~]$ grep -A2 -i flash ~/.mozilla/firefox/*default/pluginreg.dat
[jdkl81@localhost ~]$

and from the addons address bar request:
Installed plugins
Find updates for installed plugins at mozilla.com/plugincheck

OpenH264 Video Codec provided by Cisco Systems, Inc.
File: 1.3
Path: /home/jdkl81/.mozilla/firefox/3zfh8dj3.default/gmp-gmpopenh264/1.3
Version: 1.3
State: Enabled
Play back web video and use video chats.
If I understand the feedback from the terminal it indicates that I installed that version of Flash twice, most recently on Feb 25th and that the system recognizes both installs and shows ./ to represent the first and ../ to represent the most recent. If my linux recognizes the install, I wonder why firefox does not, as you can clearly see the only addon it recognizes is their player. Thanks in advance for your help.

[doktor5000]

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[jdkl81@localhost ~]$ ls -al /usr/$(rpm -E %_lib)/mozilla/plugins
total 8
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 25 01:01 ./
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Feb  5 11:59 ../


If I understand the feedback from the terminal it indicates that I installed that version of Flash twice, most recently on Feb 25th and that the system recognizes both installs and shows ./ to represent the first and ../ to represent the most recent.

Nope, it indicates that this is an empty directory.

Please provide the complete output of the following command as root (to reinstall the flash plugin):

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urpme flash-player-plugin; urpmi flash-player-plugin

[jdkl81]

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[root@localhost jdkl81]#     urpme flash-player-plugin; urpmi flash-player-plugin
removing flash-player-plugin-11.2.202.442-1.mga4.nonfree.x86_64
removing package flash-player-plugin-11.2.202.442-1.mga4.nonfree.x86_64
      1/1: removing flash-player-plugin-11.2.202.442-1.mga4.nonfree.x86_64
                                 ###################################################################warning: file /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so: remove failed: No such file or directory
###############################################


    rsync://mageia.jameswhitby.net/mageia/distrib/4/x86_64/media/nonfree/updates/flash-player-plugin-11.2.202.442-1.mga4.nonfree.x86_64.rpm
installing flash-player-plugin-11.2.202.442-1.mga4.nonfree.x86_64.rpm from /var/cache/urpmi/rpms                                                   
Preparing...                     ##################################################################################################################
Note that by downloading the Adobe Flash Player you indicate your acceptance of
the EULA, available at http://www.adobe.com/products/eulas/players/flash/
Downloading from http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/pdc/11.2.202.442/flash-plugin-11.2.202.442-release.x86_64.rpm:
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100 7053k  100 7053k    0     0  2215k      0  0:00:03  0:00:03 --:--:-- 2235k
      1/1: flash-player-plugin   ##################################################################################################################
Adobe Flash Player installation successful.


[doktor5000]

Please provide the output as normal user of

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ls -al /usr/$(rpm -E %_lib)/mozilla/plugins


and post what you see in firefox when entering about:plugins into the adress bar.

[jdkl81]

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[jdkl81@localhost ~]$ ls -al /usr/$(rpm -E %_lib)/mozilla/plugins
total 16
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 27 01:26 ./
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Feb  5 11:59 ../
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 6704 Feb  5 11:59 libflashplayer.so*
[jdkl81@localhost ~]$


Installed plugins
Find updates for installed plugins at mozilla.com/plugincheck
OpenH264 Video Codec provided by Cisco Systems, Inc.

File: 1.3
Path: /home/jdkl81/.mozilla/firefox/3zfh8dj3.default/gmp-gmpopenh264/1.3
Version: 1.3
State: Enabled
Play back web video and use video chats.

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[doktor5000]

Did you restart firefox after you installed the plugin? If not, please do so.

[jdkl81]

Yes it has been restarted since the install.

[ozky]

Is that firefox manually installed from mozilla ? if it's firefox check from wrong place plugins take a look this topic.
viewtopic.php?f=7&t=7567#p48082