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Jerome

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Registered: 2016-02-26

Posts: 148

flash/shockwave

I recently visited a site where I was told I needed an additional plugin but I have installed flashplayer-nonfree and the icedtea plugin for java (and I've checked that they are both enabled). I'm using the Seamonkey browser which is based on mozilla.

It seems that the plugin I need is for shockwave movies but I'm confused about this because I thought there was no shockwave player for Linux? Or is there?

http://www.itma.vt.edu/tech/shockwave.htm

Rademes

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From: Latvia

Registered: 2015-12-13

Posts: 637

Re: flash/shockwave

Installed browser-plugin-gnash(0.8.11), but Shockwave movie does not play...strange...

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Jerome

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Registered: 2016-02-26

Posts: 148

Re: flash/shockwave

Yes I tried gnash but no luck there either.

By the way, the current flash player in the repo is 11.2, but apparently adobe have decided to continue supporting linux:

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2016/09/adob … lash-linux

Download the latest beta here:

http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer.html

It's easy to install and I had no problems.

bin

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From: U.K.

Registered: 2016-01-28

Posts: 1,332

Re: flash/shockwave

flashplugin-nonfree will give you the most recent version of the 11.2 series incorporating the endless stream of bug fixes and security hole patches from Adobe.

Chromium plus pepperflash with give you the latest Adobe flash as supported by Google - and for some reason the address bar fonts work OK in Debian as opposed to being huge in 'buntu - which is nice.

It's a personal decision but I won't allow flash anywhere near my machine these days - if they can't be bothered to use HTML5 I can't be bothered to look at it