What? No Flash!
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You guys are kidding right.? Just another beta to use the customers good will and 'test' the system and tell them what's wrong. An internet experience without 'Flash'???
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It uses the pepper flash plugin, the same as Chrome and Opera
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How about Mageia? I think it's slurping through Cauldron right now, but when will it become available, I wonder???
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How about Mageia?
Install google-chrome, it is dirty but it's work, or use this
Source: https://forums.mageia.org/en/viewtopic.php?f=41&t=8568
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Well, I downloaded it, unzipped it, plopped it in /usr/bin/ and checked the "Is executable" box in "Permissions", ran it and restarted Vivaldi, and hey, Presto!* - Flash is now working!
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Two thumbs up, sir!
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Hi y'all,
To sum this up. Vivaldi uses the Pepper Flash plug-in. We are currently not able to ship with this plug-in and the only other provider is Chrome. This is not much different from how it worked in Opera which used the same Flash plugin as Firefox (and others). We are not happy with a situation where you have to install another browser to get Flash to work, but that is where we're at for the time being.
We are hoping this situation will change. And the end we are hoping that Flash will lose out to more open standards, but that may take some time. In the meantime we have to share with Chrome, or is it the other way around?
//Christian - Vivaldi Technologies - Take your browser back!
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@ladyjane
In ubuntu just install the adobe-flashplugin package from the Canonical Partners repository.sudo apt install adobe-flashplugin
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@cantankrus thats the wrong package! You need the pepper-flash package.
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@rocknrolf
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Hi, i have been struggling with the flash thing, but there is no way to make it work... from time to time i suffer the same issue, i dont know what else i can do... i have tried the ruario script, i have the latest pepperflash but it doesnt work
it is a pain to use another browser just to listen music in deezer because the flash thing
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great, thanks for the explanation! i have been trying to enable the html5 player, but it has no option for vivaldi, i hope deezer can fix this asap
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@gwen-dragon same with amazon music. For a few weeks now I am unable to play music in the player (it works before)
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@ladyjane said in What? No Flash!:
Flash plugin 28.0.0.161 /home/eleanor/.config/google-chrome/PepperFlash/28.0.0.161/libpepflashplayer.so
When adobe stopped supporting flash on linux there were all these solutions for getting google-chrome's flash version to use with other browsers
Adobe is supporting linux again so some of the flash packages are deprecated in favour of one single package...adobe-flashplugin
Most likely reason pepperflash isn't working for you is your google-chrome install is not up to date.
Notice in your output where vivaldi is sourcing libpepflashplayer....~/.config/google-chrome/PepperFlash/28.0.0.161/libpepflashplayer.so
I am on the same Ubuntu release as you (17.10) yet I have later releases of Vivaldi, google-chrome and libpepflashplayer.
Update your packages, purge the deprecated flash installers. And install the correct package for Ubuntu.
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@gwen-dragon
When I have google-chrome installed, Vivaldi appears to use~/.config/google-chrome/PepperFlash/
first.
If I remove my~/.config/google-chrome
directory I then see the path where adobe-flashplugin installs to.
or maybe Vivaldi chooses the latest version of libpepflashplayer.so???
glen@Xubarty:~$ locate libpepflashplayer.so /home/glen/.config/google-chrome/PepperFlash/29.0.0.140/libpepflashplayer.so /usr/lib/adobe-flashplugin/libpepflashplayer.so (version 29.0.0.113)
But the fix should be simple in Ubuntu.
Purge other flash packages.
Get the latest google-chrome-stable and/or adobe-flashplugin packages. -