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Old 03-23-2016, 09:02 AM   #1
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How do I get Flash Player?


Cannot seem to find and download a 'flash-player-like' Device for Ubuntu.
Suggestions are appreciated.
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Old 03-23-2016, 09:14 AM   #2
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In most cases flash is replaced with html5. There seem to be package for flash with different name but you may run into trouble installing and upgrading it. I run flash videos in chromium with recent lubuntu. But its not an extension and may be unsecure.
 
Old 03-23-2016, 09:35 AM   #3
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Chromium comes with its own flash plugin (pepperflash), it is up to date and works well. Everything else is stuck with old flash (ver 11) for Linux. There seems to be a wrapper for Firefox to use pepperflash, but I haven't tried it.
 
Old 03-24-2016, 12:10 AM   #4
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Hi...

You can either install Chrome, which will include the pepper version of Flash Player or if you want the latest standalone player, which is 11.2 (for browsers like Firefox,) you can see if the instructions here help.

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Old 03-24-2016, 09:06 AM   #5
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for 64bit use chrome.
For 32bit buy a 64bit computer, 32bit is practically being killed off right now
 
Old 03-25-2016, 02:49 AM   #6
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for 64bit use chrome.
For 32bit buy a 64bit computer, 32bit is practically being killed off right now
I adamantly disagree with this statement. It still takes longer to develop 64bit software and especially in Linux there are still only small gains to be had. Shoot! It's difficult to see how multicore works efficiently as more often than not, it grabs one or two cores, settles in and calls that good. I suspect it will take years yet before 64 bit becomes fully realized as a default with a lot more gained than just a few random bits.
 
Old 03-25-2016, 04:36 PM   #7
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Tell that one to google as they dropped 32bit google chrome support.
If this was an issue they would have dropped 64bit support instead.
 
Old 03-25-2016, 04:42 PM   #8
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I use the freshplayer wrapper in order to use pepperflash with firefox. Early versions were very laggy, with the latest versions I find no performance difference from the native Flash (v11.2) to the freshplayer wrapper (v20.something last time I checked). However, luckily, it's rare I actually NEED flash anymore, as most sites have switched to html5 for their videos, as mentioned earlier.
 
Old 03-25-2016, 05:54 PM   #9
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Tell that one to google as they dropped 32bit google chrome support.
If this was an issue they would have dropped 64bit support instead.
I doubt Google's dropping of the 32 bit version has anything to do with quality in either direction but rather more to do with the cost of building and maintaining BOTH. Naturally since almost all production PCs are 64bit the one they would settle on for a single versions is/was 64 bit.

On this my main box I have my main OpSys which is 32 bit Slackware v14.0, plus a 64bit version w/multilib and 3 test distros which are all 64bit versions. I keep dual versions of my main to keep up with changes to determine for myself if it is time, yet for 64bit to take over and leave 32bit in the past. So far it is not and 32 bit still has substantial benefits. So it looks like when Final Release of 14.2 hits I will be again installing 32 bit as my Main OpSys on my Main Box.
 
Old 04-02-2016, 12:43 PM   #10
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Thanks everybody for the many suggestions.
I have a lot to think about and try-out!
 
Old 04-02-2016, 02:39 PM   #11
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Thanks everybody for the many suggestions.
I have a lot to think about and try-out!
You're welcome, let us know how it turns out.

Regards...
 
  


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