[NTLUG:Discuss] Flash & Mint15

[Leroy Tennison]

Are you "just saying No" to Flash or is there a good alternative?  I've 
heard bad things about Flash but I don't remember the details: Buggy? 
Allows malware attacks?  Internally snoopy?  What?

On 09/03/2013 02:37 PM, Ralph Green wrote:
> On 9/2/13, Stephen Davidson <gorky at freenet.carleton.ca> wrote:
>> Greetings.
>>
>> I have just set up a system with Mint 15, MATE Desktop.  System is
>> absolutely refusing to load Flash for playing YouTube & Hulu, required
>> by Spouse.  Did some digging, and found the Adobe installer -- which
> Howdy,
>    I have this from reading, and not from first hand experience.  I
> won't allow Flash on any of my machines.  So, I can't test the
> following information.
>
> 1. I am guessing you have a 64 bit version on Mint.  the 64 bit
> version of Flash is widely reported not to work.  Try installing a 32
> bit Linux and then try the Adobe installerI installed the latest Adobe
> Flash for a customer on 32 bit Fedora 17 and it worked fine.
>
> 2. Google builds Flash into Chrome. but not Chromium.  Download Chrome
> and install it.
>      https://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/browser/canary.html
>
> 3. Most Youtube videos play without Flash.  html5 is good enough.
>
> Good luck,
> Ralph
>
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