Firefox and Pandora without Flash?

rivercat · 06-29-2015, 09:56 PM

Can a HTML5 browser play Pandora without Flash?

In Firefox 24.1.0, Pandora's home page tells me:
"please upgrade to a more current browser or install flash".

Does that mean a newer (HTML5?) Firefox doesnt need Flash to play Pandora?

I need to know if there are people out there who use Firefox and Pandora without installing Flash.

ps: I already know about Pianobar.

mralk3 · 06-30-2015, 01:11 AM

Why don't you try to use the Pandora site without flash and see if it works?

Also, there is an application called "pithos". Most distributions have a package for it. Configure it to connect to your Pandora account and you will have a desktop application that connects to and plays your Pandora stations.

John VV · 06-30-2015, 02:05 AM

have you done what the error massage told you to do ?
"please upgrade to a more current browser"

firefox24 IS RATHER OLD
the current is 38.0.5

please UPDATE FIREFOX to the current

greeder · 07-01-2015, 01:28 AM

Your browser and Flash are two different things. Although they work together. The problem is, Adobe is not releasing updates to the Linux version of Flash. The work around is to install Google Chrome browser. As i understand it, Google has a license for Flash and includes Flash support natively in Chrome.

mralk3 · 07-01-2015, 08:13 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by greeder

Your browser and Flash are two different things. Although they work together. The problem is, Adobe is not releasing updates to the Linux version of Flash. The work around is to install Google Chrome browser. As i understand it, Google has a license for Flash and includes Flash support natively in Chrome.

This isn't entirely true. Adobe is not releasing new versions of Flash for Linux, but is still providing security updates. Chrome, however, will have the latest version of flash, since Google and Adobe have come to an agreement.

If you are going to install Chrome, I would recommend installing Chromium instead. Chromium is the open source version of Google Chrome. Be sure to install the pepperflash-plugin and widevine-plugins for Chromium too.

polpak · 07-22-2015, 12:07 AM

Am using chromium-pepper-flash for chromium with no obvious problems.

BTW not tried this yet, at https://github.com/i-rinat/freshplayerplugin

the freshplayerplugin appears current and aims to get PPAPI (Pepper) Flash player working in Firefox

extract:

Quote:

PPAPI-host NPAPI-plugin adapter.

As you know, Adobe have suspended further development of Flash player plugin for GNU/Linux. Latest available as an NPAPI plugin version 11.2 will get security updates for five years (since its release on May 4th, 2012), but further development have been ceased. Fortunately or not, newer versions are still available for Linux as a part of Chrome browser, where Flash comes bundled in a form of PPAPI plugin. PPAPI or Pepper Plugin API is an interface promoted by Chromium/Chrome team for browser plugins. It's NPAPI-inspired yet significantly different API which have every conceivable function plugin may want. Two-dimensional graphics, OpenGL ES, font rendering, network access, audio, and so on. It's huge, there are 111 groups of functions, called interfaces which todays Chromium browser offers to plugins. Although specs are not final yet, and new interface versions are arising, with some older ones getting deleted; rate of change have significantly slowed down.

Found in my openSUSE package:

Code:

Repository: packman
Name: freshplayerplugin
Version: 0.3.0-7.2
Arch: x86_64
Vendor: http://packman.links2linux.de
Installed: No
Status: not installed
Installed Size: 1.9 MiB
Summary: PPAPI2NPAPI compatibility layer
Description: 
  The main goal of this project is to get PPAPI (Pepper) Flash player
  working in Firefox. This wrapper implements some kind of adapter
  which will look like browser to PPAPI plugin and look like NPAPI
  plugin for browser.

xuhdev · 07-22-2015, 02:32 AM

Do you have a reason to not upgrade Firefox? Flash today is rarely needed in my experience as long as your browser is recent.

polpak · 08-05-2015, 05:07 PM

Aim is use of Firefox &ors without installing Flash.

Unfortunately to many major broadcasters (Australia:abc.net.au) still require flash.

Challenge is convince them to move on from Flash.

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