Questions tagged [flash]
Flash Players and Flash in general (the format etc). Use this tag if you have trouble enabling or installing Flash in Ubuntu.
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Flash Games in Ubuntu? [duplicate]
I have Ubuntu OS. And I want to play flash games. How do I play flash games in Ubuntu?
NOTE: This post was translated using Google Translate from Turkish. The original post can be found in the ...
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Youtube and other online videos will not play
After some update which I did not note, All online videos will not play (both Chrome v. 77 and Firefox v.69 ). I already installed flash plugin and
disabled Hardware acceleration in Chrome. When I ...
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Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS: Extremely slow writing speeds while writing to USB flash drives
Using Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS and Wi-Fi I have been plagued with extremely slow speeds while writing to USB flash drives. Writing speeds have ranged from 5 to 50 kb/sec using flash drives that advertise ...
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Why am I gettng this segmentation fault
I need to install flash player to run a web-based program (photo editor) in Firefox. I used these steps to do so:
sudo add-apt-repository "deb http://archive.canonical.com/ $(lsb_release -sc) ...
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Windows 10 will not read Ubuntu formatted Flash drive
it used to be possible to access an FAT 32 Ubuntu (18.04) formatted flash drive in my Win 10 PC.
For some time now, When I plug an Ubuntu formatted USB drive (tried 3 different ones) it is not ...
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How to repair broken flash-device?
May be it was wrong decision, but I had no opportunity to make it in another way. I'd tried to burn image of Windows by means of dd on Ubuntu. I used it as usually, but once it'd gotten stuck on some ...
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How to solve flash player problem in Ubuntu 19.04?
Last week I updated from Ubuntu 18.04 to 18.10 to 19.04 in two steps. After completing, I found that Adobe Flash Player does no longer work. Neither in Firefox nor Chrome.
I tried to solve it by re-...
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Flash with Chromium or Google Chrome broken on Ubuntu 19.04
I tried loading Adobe Flash player in Chromium on Ubuntu 19.04 (Lubuntu in this case) using various answers on AskUbuntu.com. I get to the point where the Allow Flash popup happens. But when I click ...
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How to stream video on NBC Sports on Ubuntu 18.04?
I am having trouble streaming flash content at https://stream.nbcsports.com in any browser I try on 18.04. I tried using Chrome, Chromium, and Firefox with no luck. It just shows a black video screen ...
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Can't use flashplayer since upgrading to 19.04? [duplicate]
I get this message:
And it never actually runs on right click + clicking the menu item.
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Flash in Chrom(ium) 73 [duplicate]
I am aware flash is EOL. However, I need it for http://sciencenetlinks.com/media/filer/2017/12/21/evolution.html. according to https://www.whatismybrowser.com/detect/is-flash-installed however trying ...
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how to install flash player on ubuntu 16.04 LTS [duplicate]
I want to install flash player on ubuntu 16.04 LTS.
how i perform it kindly concern with your best
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Adobe Flash successfully installed for Chromium, but still not usable
I tried to install the Flash Player on Chromium by typing
sudo apt update
sudo apt install adobe-flashplugin
Everything is installed and I get the message
Using PPAPI flash.
once starting ...
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Flash content on Chrome correctly asks me to enable it but then asks me to right click to run it which does nothing
I recently tried to install Flash for Chromium and Firefox but now no flash content works, not even Chrome which has its own Flash. My issue with Flash content in Firefox is that it crashes right ...
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Flash player dosen't work in Opera
I have been using Opera for several months, but a few days the flash player stop working. I have tried installing using sudo apt install adobe-flashplugin, but its already install.
Maybe someone have ...
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Trouble with Youtube (and all streaming services)
First of all i'm a moderate newbie ( just a little more than a newbie :)
I have an old computer that have 2gb of ram and intel atom n455 cpu (dell mini 1018). I want to install a linux distro for ...
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How to clear Java and Flash cache in Ubuntu 16.04?
I'd like to know how to clear Java and Flash cache in Ubuntu 16.04 using CLI.
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pls help- have reinstalled lubuntu cosmic and flash will not install this time- i need the apt line for cannonical repository and cannot find it?
As stated, really-
have reinstalled system and previously flash has been easy terminal install for this relative noob- but, now, the terminal approach fails and from reading others travails seems i ...
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Open browser videos (Flash) in mplayer/VLC [2019 Edition]
I know this has been asked before (how to play flash videos in a browser using mplayer or vlc), but those answers are from 2012.
For several years it was possible to just look at the files in /tmp/'...
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Install Lubuntu on an USB Flash Drive [duplicate]
So I want to install Lubuntu to a 16GB USB Flash Drive and I have a question about the install process: how should I partition the device? I have an Asus X550LB notebook and the specs are: 4GB RAM, I7 ...
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grey screen from strangers in Omegle
Since I've update to Ubuntu 18.04, I only have have grey screens from strangers in Omegle. I've tried Firefox and Chrome, same thing. My webcam works fine in Cheese and Skype, and Flash seems up to ...
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Error while copying to flash derive
I tried to copy contents to usb(host system with ubuntu 16.04), this return is no error and but no "done" dialog box appears and havn't allocate any space in USB. it seems something like infinite ...
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Unable to access data on flash drive
I've copied more than 300 Go data on a 2 To flash drive, from a Ubuntu 16.04, then formatted that PC and installed Ubuntu 18.04.
The flash disk is exFAT partition, when I mounted it, I had to install ...
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Facebook game & hardware acceleration
I cannot make Facebook's "Gardenscapes" game work on my fresh installation with Firefox.
When I start it, it asks me to enable Hardware Acceleration. When the flash popup shows up, "Enable Hardware ...
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unmounting and powering off an external drive via command line
On the basis of answers to this question
what is the command line equivalent of safely remove drive
I wrote this script.
#!/bin/bash
echo "This script works on sdb and sdb1"
echo "Have a look at ...
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Chromium-browser libprotobuf ERROR when using PPAPI flash --> Segmentation fault
I can't start up the chromium-browser after an update. adobe-flash-properties-gtk:amd64 and adobe-flashplugin:amd64 were upgraded today. How do I fix this issue?
$ chromium-browser
Using PPAPI ...
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Full Ubuntu 16.04 install on USB flash drive super slow
I installed a full ubuntu on a flash drive. At the moment I have the problem that my full Ubuntu install on a fast flash drive (Cosair Voyager 128GB) is very slow. Before the 128GB one I used a 32GB ...
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Should I limit writes to a flash drive, when installing Ubuntu on a USB stick (Full Install)?
I'd like to boot Ubuntu (or edubuntu) from a USB device, and store data on the device for future use, as well as install software, drivers, etc. According to this answer, a Full Install will get ...
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Flashplayer not working on Chromium 18.10
I had to reinstall my OS, was on 18.10 and reinstalled it. The flashplayer on Chromium was working before and now not. It keeps telling me to "Click to enable" but nothing happens. I have uninstalled ...
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Strange LED blinking problem with USB flash drives - is it just me?
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I'm using Ubuntu MATE 16.04.5 LTS with latest 4.4 Linux kernel on several machines (laptops and desktops with USB 2.0 and USB 3.0).
For me it seems that something was changed inside USB ...
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Clone a flashdrive
How do you clone a bootable flashdrive? What Linux software can clone a flash drive. I tried doing a sector by sector copy using a Windows application which worked but the Linux flash drive doesn't ...
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Youtube Player Glitch on Ubuntu 18.04
I'm using Ubuntu 18.04 LTS with latest version of Chrome (70.0.3538.67). Whenever I open a YouTube video for the first time, this YouTube player will act weird like shown in picture below. It zoom in ...
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Time a USB flash drive formated in NTFS be read in a linux pc [closed]
My home Network is run by Lenox. My wife will give a friend and new USB flash drive, to save a word processing work she is doing for her. Her friend has a Windows PC therefore the ubs flash drive, ...
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flashing sony xperia sp5303
i am trying to flash a sonyxperia sp5303 using flash tools and
the original firmware by sony (Sony_Xperia_SP_C5303_12.0.A.1.257_Customized_NCB_(by_xperiastockrom.com))
i installed flashtools and run ...
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Sony flash tools .tar installation on ubuntu 18.04
i am running ubuntu 18.04 and i want to install the sony flash tools app in order to flash an xperia sm5303.
i found and downloaded on my desktop the following 2 files:
a) SP Flash Tool v5.1752 ...
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Facebook Games and Flash Issue
My wife recently switched to xubuntu and she has run into an issue. I have googled but had no luck with a solution. She is trying to play a facebook game and getting the error that flash 19 or greater ...
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(Ubuntu 18.04) (Chromium) (Flash) Plugin is not supported.
Whenever I open a page with a flash in it, It is replaced with with a white background, writing that says "Plugin not supported", and a grey puzzle piece above the writing.
Any thoughts on how to ...
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Mounting a flash drive on Ubuntu 16.04 failed
My flash drive does't work on ubuntu 16.04. The reason is doesn't support 'exfat' file. I ran the:
sudo apt-get install exfat-fuse exfat-utils
However, it give me:
Reading package lists... Done
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How can I install Flash for Brave browser?
I installed Brave and it had no Flash. I went to the plugins and they were recommending a Flash version called PepperFlash. I found guides online and installed that version, but Flash is still not ...
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Is there a way to get Channel 4 player to work natively in Ubuntu 18.04
CHannel 4 player uses flash and drm. There have been some workarounds.
Is there a way to make it work in Ubuntu without using wine? Any workarounds are ok but no wine.
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Problems opening .swf file
I am new to Ubuntu, running 16.04, so forgive me if I've overlooked something simple or obvious. I've been on this thread How do I play .swf files? but nothing there has worked for me.
I installed ...
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Flash refuses to work on Firefox Ubuntu 18.04
I'm aware this has been asked a hundred times but it seems like none of the solutions that have been posted for other people are working for me.
Adobe must've changed something in the past year ...
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Kubuntu 18.04 flash player problem
I'm running Kubuntu 18.04 and firefox 60.0.2.
I needed to use flashplayer, so I installed it, restarted firefox and enabled it. But when I tried to make it work, it doesn't reproduce anything: the ...
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Watching Hulu on 16.04 or 18.04
I'm having trouble playing Hulu on Ubuntu. It started one or two months ago (it used to work before). I always watched it on Chrome.
Some time ago, after a couple minutes of playback, the CPU usage ...
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Flash player: When I install, my browser still tells me I need to install Flash
In the terminal I added the universe repository and then issued command sudo apt install adobe-flashplugin. It seemed to install correctly. I then installed Google Chrome by finding the appropriate ...
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Screen tearing lines and other issues when I watch any videos
I have many problems on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.
First of all my notebook:
Lenovo Y700-15isk, Intel Core i7-6700HQ, 16 GB RAM, NVIDIA GTX 960M 4 GB. SSD 256 GB, and HDD 1 TB.
Ubuntu is installed in dual ...
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Adobe flash player on 18.04 "the channel bionic partner is unknown" [duplicate]
How can I install Adobe flash player on 18.04 LTS? I have tried downloading it from the Adobe Flash official site where I select the Ubuntu/Debian version, but it says chose an application to open the ...
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No Pdf reader plugin 18.04
There is no PDF reader plugin available for Ubuntu 18.04 Budgie. Where would one be if one existed. The old adobe version for linux seems to be no longer available, synaptic package manager had ...
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Playing Videos in Firefox
I use Ubuntu 18.04 and Firefox 60.0 (linux beginner!)
I just installed the flash player, but the only videos that are displayed in my browser are the ones on youtube.
facebook and any other streaming-...
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Chromium flashplayer
Did anyone manage to get chromium web-browser working with flashplayer ?
So far what I tried:
sudo apt install flashplugin-installer
that worked well for firefox but no effect on chromium.
then I ...