How to keep using FlashPlayer in Firefox?

As we already know, for now we can only use Flash Player en Linux if we make use of Google Chrome as Mozilla you do not plan to include the Pepper corresponding within Firefox.

We can use free alternatives, as in the case of gnash y lights park, but unfortunately both applications are still not quite mature. We can also wait for most of the Video and Audio Streaming sites to adopt HTML5, but we better find a chair and sit down, because the process is going to take time.

Reading in Let's use Linux, friend Paul Castagnino proposes a simpler method if we want to continue using Firefox with Flash Player and it is truly ingenious. I bring them here.

What we will do is that Firefox use the plugin Flash embedded in Chrome which of course, we must have installed.

1.- We remove the plugins from Flash Player installed.

sudo apt-get remove flashplugin-*

2.- We create the plugin folder within the configuration of Firefox:

mkdir -p ~/.mozilla/plugins

3.- Through a symbolic link we put the plugin ChromeWithin Firefox:

ln -s /opt/google/chrome/libgcflashplayer.so ~/.mozilla/plugins/

4.- We open Firefox and select Tools »Extensions and we disable Shockwave Flash.

Ready. Now if you want you can continue watching p0rn videos and soap operas in YouTube. 😀


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  1.   auroszx said

    LOL! Take that guys from Adobe 😀

  2.   proper said

    Great contribution Elav!

    1.    elav <° Linux said

      You're welcome, actually all the credit goes to Pablo at UsemosLinux ..

  3.   electron222 said

    Wiii p0rn ^ _ ^ luckily I didn't have to go back to the unnameable.

  4.   Simon said

    In which version of Chrome / Chromium is that plugin supposed to exist? I have looked at Chromium version 18 and the current stable version of Chrome and neither has this plugin.

  5.   Juanelo said

    In Mint the process to follow is easier. We just have to replace the libflashplayer.so file that is installed in our OS with the new version that we downloaded from the adobe website.
    We download the file in tar.gz format, unzip the file in question, delete the previous one installed located in / opt / mint-flashplugin-11 /, copy the one we just unzipped, restart Firefox and that's it.

  6.   hyperrsayan_x said

    The only thing you are doing with that "trick" is creating a symbolic link to the chrome flashplayer that is exactly the same as the Firefox flashplayer.
    That "trick" works because the plugin that chrome uses has the same architecture as Firefox plugins, when Adobe uses the Pepper architecture that "trick" will not work because Firefox cannot load libraries with architectures that are not implemented.

    1.    hypersayan_x said

      Sorry, I lost an «r» 😛

      1.    hypersayan_x said

        mmm ... I think the previous message did not go well: yes, I leave it again:

        The only thing you are doing with that "trick" is creating a symbolic link to the chrome flashplayer that is exactly the same as the Firefox flashplayer.
        That "trick" works because the plugin that chrome uses has the same architecture as Firefox plugins, when Adobe uses the Pepper architecture that "trick" will not work because Firefox cannot load libraries with architectures that are not implemented.

        1.    hexborg said

          Exactly!

    2.    KZKG ^ Gaara said

      Indeed, when I change the internal structure or programming of the plugin as such ... it will not work 🙁

  7.   Yoyo said

    Internet is for p0rn 🙂

    1.    Courage said

      Vicious reggaeton player

      1.    diazepam said

        It's not from reggeatonero, it's from brainy people

        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOTPDO32qko

        1.    Courage said

          I agree with the girls in that anime, the guys go out to the disco to dance La Gasolina by Dadee Yankee and then see how many they get

  8.   man man said

    Why not make a kind of wrapper to solve this issue similar to the crossover plugin?

  9.   Rafa said

    very good and simple, but it forces you to have chrome installed ... surely someone will soon release an extension to solve this bullshit.

    1.    KZKG ^ Gaara said

      Actually you could download the .deb or .tar.gz of the latest FlashPlayer, decompress it and then copy the .so to the path indicated in the post

  10.   Suso said

    Little by little the wicked will disappear hehehehehe

  11.   Carlos said

    I have used a Firefox extension called Flash Aid (https://addons.mozilla.org/es-ES/firefox/addon/flash-aid/). The pity is that it can only be used on Debian or Ubuntu based systems.

    Through a wizard, it uninstalls the Flash plugins that we have installed from repositories and lets us choose if we want to install the latest Adobe version (stable or beta), or the Google Chrome version (only for 32 bits). We also suffer from applying optional patches to the plugin to avoid high memory consumption or full-screen Flash problems.

    Easy and for the whole family!!

    1.    KZKG ^ Gaara said

      I did not know this plugin, it would be necessary to try it (those who use Debian, Mint or Ubuntu) 😀
      Thanks for the tip 🙂

    2.    Roberto said

      That plugin was disabled by its creator. Mozilla censorship?