Flash updated but unsafe for Iceweasel - Page 2

kmathern · posted: 2015-07-16 15:27

There might be something in your ~/.mozilla/firefox/######## profile that's causing pepperflash/freshplayerplugin to not be detected, that happened to me here:
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As a test you might rename the ~/.mozilla folder to see if it picks up the pepperflash/freshplayerplugin plugin in a fresh firefox profile.
(close all open Iceweasel/Firefox windows before renaming the ~/.mozilla folder )

Aleph · posted: 2015-07-16 15:43

kmathern wrote:There might be something in your ~/.mozilla/firefox/######## profile that's causing pepperflash/freshplayerplugin to not be detected, that happened to me here:
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As a test you might rename the ~/.mozilla folder to see if it picks up the pepperflash/freshplayerplugin plugin in a fresh firefox profile.

Thanks kmathern I did without succes... __{{emoticon}}__

Dave · posted: 2015-07-16 15:58

I am unsure what to recommend checking further. Maybe the version of ice weasel is older? I have been using the jessie repo and am up to date on all installs and so far that procedure has worked every time. Maybe there are some other settings in the freshplayer.conf that needs to be changed to enable it on his machine?

kmathern · posted: 2015-07-16 17:47

Aleph wrote:
kmathern wrote:There might be something in your ~/.mozilla/firefox/######## profile that's causing pepperflash/freshplayerplugin to not be detected, that happened to me here:
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As a test you might rename the ~/.mozilla folder to see if it picks up the post41765.html#p41765 plugin in a fresh firefox profile.
Thanks kmathern I did without succes... __{{emoticon}}__

Another thing that might be causing pepperflash/freshplayerplugin to not work, is using the nvidia proprietary driver.

In the thread at forum.mepiscommunity.org that I referred to earlier, pepperflash/freshplayerplugin didn't work for Joany when she was using the nvidia driver. When she was using the nouveau driver in a MX-14.4 live session, pepperflash/freshplayerplugin did work for her:
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In the inxi output of the post you made here: post41765.html#p41765, it looks like you're using the nvidia driver.

Aleph · posted: 2015-07-16 19:10

Hi Dave,

my iceweasel is 31.8.0 and the repos Jessie stable.

A question kmathern, have you installed Chrome browser?

Some people said that is mandatory to have installed Chrome for uses pepper flash in FF

kmathern · posted: 2015-07-16 19:41

Aleph wrote:Hi Dave,

my iceweasel is 31.8.0 and the repos Jessie stable.

A question kmathern, have you installed Chrome browser?

Some people said that is mandatory to have installed Chrome for uses pepper flash in FF

I do have Chrome (google-chrome-stable) installed. It installs the pepperflash plugin at"/opt/google/chrome/PepperFlash/libpepflashplayer.so".

The pepperflashplugin-nonfree package that Dave had you install here:
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should have also installed the pepperflash plugin.
It installs it in a different location though,"/usr/lib/pepperflashplugin-nonfree/libpepflashplayer.so".

What does this return?

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strings /usr/lib/pepperflashplugin-nonfree/libpepflashplayer.so | grep LNX

If it's the latest version (as of July 16, 2015), it should return"LNX 18,0,0,209".

Aleph · posted: 2015-07-16 20:29

The output is:

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strings /usr/lib/pepperflashplugin-nonfree/libpepflashplayer.so | grep LNX
LNX 18,0,0,209

Aleph · posted: 2015-07-16 20:53

This guy said that you must have Chrome installed:

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kmathern · posted: 2015-07-16 21:30

Aleph wrote:This guy said that you must have Chrome installed:

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As a test I removed Chrome and installed pepperflashplugin-nonfree in it's place.

It's working fine without Chrome.

Here's what Firefox shows for flash in about:config

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Shockwave Flash

    File: libfreshwrapper-pepperflash.so
    Path: /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libfreshwrapper-pepperflash.so
    Version: 18.0.0.209
    State: Enabled
    Shockwave Flash 18.0 r0

MIME Type    Description    Suffixes
application/x-shockwave-flash    Shockwave Flash    swf
application/futuresplash    FutureSplash Player    spl

Aleph · posted: 2015-07-16 22:04

Thanks kmathern,

but it seems that the battle is lost here... __{{emoticon}}__

Dave · posted: 2015-07-17 00:46

I also do not have chrome installed.
One last stab...?
What are the permissions on the files in the plugin directory ?
ls -la /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/

Also maybe worth copying the freshwrapper plugin to the user's .mozilla directory itself? (~/.mozilla/plugins I think)

Aleph · posted: 2015-07-17 07:36

Hi Dave,

yesterday after enable the mepis repos I only did a dist-update as you told me, more late I tried a dist-upgrade and I have tu update 41 files (my system was completely updated before enable the mepis repos) many stuff about wifi, etc, etc...

I think I prefer to stay the most stable as possible. I stopped the update and reverted all the process for install the pepper flash.

I installed one more time the adobe flash player and it shows an updated version , the 11.2.202.491

Everything is working fine.

Sorry but I will forget the pepper flash for the moment, maybe more late I will try to install it. __{{emoticon}}__

Thank you for your help Dave, and thank you to kmathern.

DeepDayze · posted: 2015-07-18 18:24

Flashplayer 11.2.202.491 works here as well.