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is it possible to keep our system up to date with flash and firefox . in the past i have gotten notices that my firefox is out of date that
appear over and over again. that seems have been fixed finally. now i am getting notices that my flash is out of date and the
notices are rather annoying.

can we get newer versions without running caldron.

Are your repositories up to date?

I have not seen any such messages. Can you supply a link?

Adobe is dropping Linux support in that we will get no new versions just security updates for Version 11.2.2 the latest of which is 11.2.202.554

Note: Flash Player 11.2 is the last supported Flash Player version for Linux. Adobe will continue to provide security updates.

hanks for the responses. is there a way we can override the warnings about flash being outdated. one example is when i go to utube, the videos wont play till i approve the
player to continue.

Chanelog says anssi have builded it 2015-12-08 to Mageia 5 so you have been not updated for long time your system.

As the OP didn't post either the flash or browser version, how do you determine if he didn't update for a long time?

To this:

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2015-12-08 - anssi<anssi> 11.2.202.554-1.mga5
+ Revision: 908912
- new version 11.2.202.554

http://pkgs.org/mageia-5/mageia-nonfree ... 4.rpm.html

You still miss the point, you cannot tell that the OP hasn't updated in a long time, if you don't know what versions he uses,
and where he gets such notices that firefox or the flash plugin is outdated ...

one example is when i go to utube, the videos wont play till i approve the
player to continue.

I can watch youtube videos with no problem using Firefox and flash as supplied from the Mageia 5 repositories.

For what it's worth, if you're using Firefox and have it set to clear the cache and history on closing you'll get that warning in every new session.

daniewicz wrote:

one example is when i go to utube, the videos wont play till i approve the
player to continue.

I can watch youtube videos with no problem using Firefox and flash as supplied from the Mageia 5 repositories.

It is possible that you watch videos in html5 not in flash. Unfortunately i get this out-of-date annoying notifications on Cauldron too. Even some flash sites, like hasbro.com (my daughter plays their flash games. Damn little ponnies!) refused to open their flash content because of Adobe's decision to stop Linux flash support. Many sites check for flash v. 12.x and above. I think there is nothing we can do. Just try Google Chrome to open such sites and videos. My 2 cents.

Guys, that's all fine. But if you don't even know, whether the warning about outdated flash is provided by the site offering the flash content (nothing Mageia can do about that, if you want to get rid of that warning only choices are either to use freshplayerplugin + pepperflash from Chrome for Firefox OR to uninstall flash plugin) or whether it's just the usual click-to-play warning directly from firefox (can be caused by outdated flash plugin, or by explicitly setting it to click-to-play, or by a bug in firefox not reading the plugin version correctly) there's no real chance that you can effectively help the OP.

Flash/Adobe is a sad story
Adobe now have 11.2.202.559 and sites already block .554
http://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/

morgano wrote:Flash/Adobe is a sad story

Flash is a sad story, yes, but even more so under linux. Although you don't need to use that old version, and you may also not need to to use flash at all.
Quite some time ago, I've uninstalled flash-player-plugin, and never regretted it. See http://occupyflash.org/

If you use firefox maybe freshplayerplugin and pepper flash would be better option,i don't use it as qupzilla won't work very well with fresplayerplugin.
I wait that qupzilla is fully ported to qtwebengine,as it will have built in pepper api support so it will work without wrapper with chrome flash.

doktor5000 wrote:

morgano wrote:Flash/Adobe is a sad story

Flash is a sad story, yes, but even more so under linux. Although you don't need to use that old version, and you may also not need to to use flash at all.
Quite some time ago, I've uninstalled flash-player-plugin, and never regretted it. See http://occupyflash.org/

Funny thing is http://occupyflash.org/ tries to use flash and my firefox blocked flash from running.

tarakbumba wrote:Funny thing is http://occupyflash.org/ tries to use flash and my firefox blocked flash from running.

Yes, as that's the only way to check whether you still have flash installed or not. Here it shows:

:-) Flash is not installed on this browser. Hurray!

Not used flash in a long while, HTML 5 works fine with youtube and what not, Shame twich don't do the switch though. For websites that have embedded vids use the no flash ff plugin, it pulls the html5 content instead of the flash