How to enable Adobe Flash?

muffybean

Re: New to Vivaldi? Introduce yourself!I have just gone over to Vivaldi yesterday and I am very impressed with it. I have been a windows user for many years and a user of Google Chrome. Having started using LM 19.2 (MATE) I initially did install Chrome as I do not like Firefox, plus one or two issues with banking sites. My initial impression of Vivaldi is I am impressed, especially with the ability to sync my PC's. I have three desktops, two on Linux and one on Windows 10, so the sync bit was important. I have not had a chance to fully explore the possibilities of Vivaldi yet but do have one issue. This is regarding Adobe Flash. I am aware that this is being phased out next year but two sites I use are still on it and I need Flash to do things on the sites. I have checked to enable it and reload in the site but it still does not work. Can you please advise as currently I am having to use Chrome still for these two sites and want to dump Chrome. TIA

Pesala

Welcome to the Community. Here are a few links for your bookmarks that you may find useful:

@muffybean Settings, Webpages, Plugins, Enable Flash.

If that's not working for you then we need the URL to the site.

sgunhouse

Where is Flash installed on your system? Vivaldi only looks certain places in Linux, but those do include places Chrome would expect it.

The moderators may want to move this to the Linux forum, so that the more Linux-savvy users may see it.

lamarca

Welcome to the forums and enjoy Vivaldi Browser and also Vivaldi for Android.

From Vivaldi browser help (F1)
https://help.vivaldi.com/article/install-flash-player-for-vivaldi/

muffybean

@sgunhouse

Flash works ok in Vivaldi on my Windows 10 machine, it is my Linux machine it does not work. I have tried to download Adobe Flash on that machine but there are issues. I assume until I get that installed on the Linux machine I will not get the plugin working. Will catch up with this later as I have work to do now. Thank you for your response.

Catweazle

Welcome to the community

muffybean

@muffybean Yes have done all this catweazle. Problem in Linux is getting the plugin for it. I have had a couple of suggestions which I did and sure enough when I search for Adobe Flash Plugin it tells me it is installed but do not know where.

muffybean

@muffybean After running a terminal command as follows

muffy@muffy-GA-78LMT-USB3:~$ sudo add-apt-repository "deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu `lsb_release -cs` partner"
[sudo] password for muffy:             
Repository already exists.
muffy@muffy-GA-78LMT-USB3:~$ sudo apt update
Ign:1 http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu tina InRelease
Hit:2 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic InRelease                        
Hit:3 http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu bionic InRelease                     
Hit:4 http://ppa.launchpad.net/graphics-drivers/ppa/ubuntu bionic InRelease    
Get:5 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates InRelease [88.7 kB]      
Ign:6 http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/packages.linuxmint.com/packages tina InRelease
Get:7 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security InRelease [88.7 kB]    
Err:8 http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu tina Release                         
  404  Not Found [IP: 2001:67c:1360:8c01::16 80]
Ign:9 http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb stable InRelease                   
Hit:10 http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/packages.linuxmint.com/packages tina Release
Hit:11 http://ppa.launchpad.net/mc3man/mpv-tests/ubuntu bionic InRelease       
Get:12 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-backports InRelease [74.6 kB]   
Hit:13 http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb stable Release                    
Hit:14 http://ppa.launchpad.net/rvm/smplayer/ubuntu bionic InRelease           
Hit:15 http://ppa.launchpad.net/teejee2008/ppa/ubuntu bionic InRelease         
Ign:16 http://repo.vivaldi.com/stable/deb stable InRelease                     
Hit:17 http://repo.vivaldi.com/stable/deb stable Release
Get:19 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates/main i386 Packages [624 kB]
Get:21 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates/main amd64 Packages [816 kB]
Get:22 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates/universe amd64 Packages [1,033 kB]
Get:23 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates/universe i386 Packages [997 kB]
Get:24 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates/universe Translation-en [319 kB]
Reading package lists... Done                                                  
E: The repository 'http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu tina Release' does not have a Release file.
N: Updating from such a repository can't be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default.
N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details.
muffy@muffy-GA-78LMT-USB3:~$ sudo apt install adobe-flashplugin
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
adobe-flashplugin is already the newest version (1:20191009.1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1).
0 to upgrade, 0 to newly install, 0 to remove and 1 not to upgrade.
muffy@muffy-GA-78LMT-USB3:~$

I still can't get flash working in Vivaldi under Linux, even when I say allow Flash and reload. Plus selecting click on Run this plugin.

As I said in Windows, Vivaldi is fine and also Chrome in Linux it runs fine.