adobe flash

[Michael Havens]

I d/l chrome and things respond much quicker with the browser. (switching
tabs, clicking links, stuff like that)
Thanks for the suggestion.

:-)~MIKE~(-:

On Sun, Oct 5, 2014 at 5:51 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks for the advice. I'll d/l it. Oh yeah, also, if anyone needs to
> know, my gmail wasn't loading on chromium because I had the noscripts
> extension loaded.
>
> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>
> On Sun, Oct 5, 2014 at 4:56 PM, Nathan England <nathan at nmecs.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> I'm assuming your using some variant on *buntu.. Correct? Regardless, I
>> think most distro's now use a late enough version of Chromium that it no
>> longer works with Adobe flash (at least not without some serious effort).
>>
>>
>>
>> You would be better off going to www.google.com/chrome and download the
>> real package and install it. It has flash included and runs much better
>> anyway...
>>
>>
>>
>> It's just easier. Last time I tried to make default Chromium use a
>> regular version of adobe flash I spent an hour beating my head against the
>> wall then installed normal Chrome from Google and everything works great.
>>
>>
>>
>> If you really want to know.... /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
>>
>> is where your libflash... should go.
>>
>>
>>
>> Nathan
>>
>>
>> On Sunday, October 05, 2014 16:44:20 Michael Havens wrote:
>>
>> I need to download adobe flash and I opted for the tar file rather than
>> the apt file. The instructions say (in part):
>>
>>
>>  o Copy libflashplayer.so to the appropriate browser plugins directory.
>> At the prompt type:
>>
>> + cp libflashlayer.so <BrowserPluginsLocation>
>>
>> o Copy the Flash Player Local Settings configurations files to the /usr
>> directory.  At the prompt type:
>>
>> + sudo cp -r usr/* /usr
>>
>>
>> My questions are:
>>
>>
>> what is the appropriate directory for chromium?
>>
>> where are the configuration files? I understand from the first '+' that
>> the text after the '+' that this is what you are supposed to type in. I
>> can't quite grasp what the second command is. Oh.... I understand. usr is a
>> directory in the tar package. They just want to copy the contents of it to
>> /usr . They mention that this package is for firefox.... will that prove
>> difficult? Why didn't I have problems like this last time?
>>
>>
>> Thanks for any help you can give.
>>
>> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>>
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