#21 2016-07-12 05:20:32

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Gaucho

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Re: Firefox instead of Iceweasel

Leave ff-esr, but test ditching the Debian flash plugins. I'm curious how libflashplayer.so by itself performs on your system.

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Gaucho

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Re: Firefox instead of Iceweasel

I've added links to FF-esr from Mozilla in the OP.

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johnraff

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Re: Firefox instead of Iceweasel

Firefox from the debian-mozilla repo is also at 47. No mess, no fuss.

john@bunsen1:~$ apt-cache policy firefox
firefox:
  Installed: 47.0.1-1~bpo80+1
  Candidate: 47.0.1-1~bpo80+1
  Version table:
 *** 47.0.1-1~bpo80+1 0
        500 http://mozilla.debian.net/ jessie-backports/firefox-release amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

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johnraff

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Re: Firefox instead of Iceweasel

Interesting discovery. If you go to the Adobe download site with Firefox you get the message that Linux is only supported up to ver. 11.*, but use chromium and you can download the 22.* pepperflash plugin, even on i386 systems. Yes, there seems to be an i386 pepperflash plugin! Google doesn't use it, but it's there. I just downloaded it on an i386 VirtualBox and installed the .so file manually, and chromium uses it (with some tweaking), and with browser-plugin-freshplayer-pepperflash installed even Firefox uses it. On i386!

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Gaucho

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Re: Firefox instead of Iceweasel

I just downloaded it on an i386 VirtualBox and installed the .so file manually, and chromium uses it (with some tweaking), and with browser-plugin-freshplayer-pepperflash installed even Firefox uses it. On i386!

Grrrr. Walkthrough, please, I've been screwing with it for over half an hour to no avail. Some tweaking, very cryptic.

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johnraff

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Re: Firefox instead of Iceweasel

I was going to post a howto if it survived testing, but meanwhile here's what I did:

*) Download flash_player_ppapi_linux.i386.tar.gz here: https://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/otherversions/
Linux (32bit) > FP 22.0 for other Linux 32-bit (.tar.gz) -PPAI

*) For Firefox we need to put libpepflashplayer.so somewhere where browser-plugin-freshplayer-pepperflash can find it. I used /usr/lib/PepperFlash/

*) For Firefox install browser-plugin-freshplayer-pepperflash and restart.

*) For Chromium you have to edit the path in /etc/chromium.d/pepperflashplugin-nonfree if it exists, or create a file in /etc/chromium.d with these contents:

flashso="/usr/lib/PepperFlash/libpepflashplayer.so"
flashversion=`strings $flashso 2> /dev/null | grep LNX | cut -d ' ' -f 2 | sed -e "s/,/./g"`
CHROMIUM_FLAGS="$CHROMIUM_FLAGS --ppapi-flash-path=$flashso --ppapi-flash-version=$flashversion"

Last edited by johnraff (2016-07-18 06:47:19)

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Re: Firefox instead of Iceweasel

Thanks! I'm about done for tonight, I'll check it mañana.

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