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Can i use something else than firefox and have flash.

Asked by le red

I use ubuntu 12.04

I watch a lot of live streaming and i wonder if there's something else than firefox.

And will Adobe support firefox for ever.

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Best Mark Rijckenberg (markrijckenberg) said : 		#1

"Adobe is no longer developing the Flash for Firefox on Linux. You’re still getting security updates, but that’s it — your Flash Player plug-in is already several major versions out-of-date.

Linux users can still use the Pepper-based Flash plug-in included with Google Chrome for Linux. This is the only way to get the latest version of Flash on Linux, although the plug-in can be installed separately for Chromium or Firefox."

Source: http://www.howtogeek.com/193876/using-firefox-on-linux-your-flash-player-is-old-and-outdated/

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Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : 		#2

Adobe does no more publish new versions of the flash player plugin for firefox on linux (they provide just security fixes of the 11.2 version).

You can use the chromium browser with the pepperflash plugin.

If you have already enabled the multiverse repository, the commands

sudo apt-get install pepperflashplugin-nonfree
sudo update-pepperflashplugin-nonfree --install

should download and install the current version.

You can test your flash player by browsing to the page

http://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/

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le red (marcdemontigny) said : 		#3

Thanks Mark Rijckenberg, that solved my question.