[SOLVED] NEWBIE : Adobe Flash update? It says I'm UP TO DATE!!! But it keeps crashing on me...

freethemushrooms · 12-12-2014, 04:48 PM

Hi guys. For a few months now I've been having ads and video crash on me occasionally and it tells me I need to update. But when I check with Mozilla it says I'm up to date. And just today it's telling me that "This plug-in is vulnerable and should be updated." but when I follow the link it STILL tells me I'm up to date! Does anyone know what's going on?

Heeeellllppp mmmeeeeeeeeee!!! I'm lost in computer land!

I know someone will come and rescue me from the Adobe monster!

Thanks in advance to my knight in shining keyboard . . .

freethemushrooms · 12-12-2014, 04:57 PM

Oh, yeah. Also, on every page now it says at the top "Firefox has prevented the outdated plug-in 'Adobe Flash' from running on ________.com" Is it me or something between Adobe and Linux?

John VV · 12-12-2014, 05:52 PM

it is just the "F'ed up web sites that REQUIRE FLASH to work

i am MISSING THE GOPHER DAYS

before "Netscape navigator" and "internet explorer "

also update ubuntu

there is a flash update to fix that hole in the security

-- USE THE version in your repos
do NOT try to use the old antique software on adobes page

sounds greek 2 me · 12-15-2014, 10:46 AM

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Originally Posted by freethemushrooms

Hi guys. For a few months now I've been having ads and video crash on me occasionally and it tells me I need to update. But when I check with Mozilla it says I'm up to date. And just today it's telling me that "This plug-in is vulnerable and should be updated." but when I follow the link it STILL tells me I'm up to date! Does anyone know what's going on?

Heeeellllppp mmmeeeeeeeeee!!! I'm lost in computer land!

I know someone will come and rescue me from the Adobe monster!

Thanks in advance to my knight in shining keyboard . . .

You have to use the google chrome browser to view sites with the latest flash.

Adobe stopped supporting flash for linux and android as of 11.2.x

freethemushrooms · 12-15-2014, 08:37 PM

oh ok, simple enough. can i get chrome through the software center? or go right to google?

sounds greek 2 me · 12-15-2014, 09:14 PM

You need to add the google chrome PPA to your apt sources.

http://ubuntuportal.com/2014/04/how-...usty-tahr.html

There will be two methods in this link. DO NOT DO METHOD #1. This only downloads the deb package. It does not include the dependencies and google chrome won't start. I know, because I used that method when I was using ubuntu.

Instead do #2 : Installing google chrome via PPA. This method does work.

IMPORTANT:
There is an error in the package name in the article:
sudo apt-get install google-chrome

The actual package name is

Code:

sudo apt-get install google-chrome-stable

byteforge · 01-07-2015, 05:32 PM

Or you can also use Chromium, which is an OSS derivative of Google Chrome. At least I *seem* to remember that a recent Chromium too will ship its "own" Flash plugin.

hariperuvayal · 01-09-2015, 04:30 AM

ho can i open a .pmd (pagemaker file) file trrough ubundu