hi

adobe is no longer updating flash for linux

I now use a combination of extensions, in google chrome to get around this
YMMV

Firstly I use
Stop Autoplay for YouTube------- to stop autoplay and
YouTube Downloader: MP3 / HD Video Download------to provide a download button to download movie in various formats and play in your favourite media player
eg vlc
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but, doesn't Chrome contain flash?

Check out: Link

Adobe Flash Player is directly integrated with Google Chrome and enabled by default.
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hi

yes I agree....but for the following reasons I don't use it.

According to your link, chrome use
libpepflashplayer.so.....which is modified from the original adobe plugin.

I think I have mentioned it elsewhere but I don't use chrome's plugin but the official plugin.

The reason for this.....is until recently......chrome is slower to update its plugin versus the adobe site.

I download the tarball and unpack it to a storage folder and have sym link to
/usr/lib/browser-plugins.

The beauty of my technique is I only need to use root powers to create the sym link, once.

Each update then is done with local user powers to replace the libflashplayer.so into my special folder.

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But adobe is no longer updating as today shows linux version is
11,2,202,236

but ms is
11.3.300.268

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so my OP was an explanation of what I am doing to avoid issues at youtube for some movies that rely on flash.

I am aware that youtube is moving away from flash so over time, linux may be back to equal?

cheers
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I'm running the beta of the Chrome browser, that's why I haven't noticed. My flash in chrome is 11,3,31,222.

I misunderstood what you were posting, mostly because I hardly use Chrome, and, I'm used to older versions of flash in Firefox. My FF is at 11,2,202,236 now.
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Wont' be options soon, unless firefox adopts the new plugin interface that chrome is using.

In a sense, that's ok though, but my guess is webkit and mozilla type browsers will all adopt the new method because otherwise they are haning this niche market to google chrome.
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today I had to follow GoinEasy9 and move to beta as
some pages were very slow to load with todays update of chromium

but, without any real testing, I suspect its because the flash is so old
and running beta with flash version as per



works with beta correctly for some web pages.

my last line is quote shows my old sym link and its version number
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Having moved to beta, my old extensions for youtube no workee

if interested search in extensions for Dr Newton or

chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/mgohhadkbjddoimddcholknnjmcbldgm

works for me
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