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I know there is a problem with flash player. In my case I have 64 bit ubuntu 12.04 system. Youtube videos works fine, gifs works fine and even i have played flash games. But the problem is when I open starsports.com and click on any video it says flash player needed. Also on miniclip I don't see the game even loading. What is the problem here?

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  • What browser and what flash version (check here) do you use?
    – Byte Commander ♦
    Feb 24, 2016 at 19:25
  • browser - firefox ,flash -11,2,202,569
    – mrigendra
    Feb 24, 2016 at 19:45
  • Now please also add the terminal output of the command dpkg -l *flash* | grep ^ii to tell us which flash packages you have installed.
    – Byte Commander ♦
    Feb 24, 2016 at 20:17
  • flashplugin-installer 11.2.202.569ubuntu0.12.04.1 Adobe Flash Player plugin installer
    – mrigendra
    Feb 25, 2016 at 4:12

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I guess the site you want to visit requires a current version of Flash to work.

As Adobe officially stopped support for the NPAPI (plug-in interface in Firefox-like browsers) Flash version on Linux at version 11, that's the latest version you can get normally for Firefox.

However, there's a trick starting with Ubuntu 15.10. The Linux PPAPI (plug-in interface for Chrome-like browsers) Flash version is still getting upgraded and currently runs at version 19.

You can install the package browser-plugin-freshplayer-pepperflash to temporarily download the Google Chrome browser in the background, automatically extract the latest PPAPI Flash plug-in from it and installing that. It also installs a PPAPI to NPAPI wrapper which makes this latest Flash version available for Firefox-like browsers as well.

Here's a list of all commands you need to run for the mentioned trick:

  1. Purge the current Flash package:

    sudo apt-get purge flashplugin-installer

  2. Install the described PPAPI-to-NPAPI wrapper and the new Pepperflash plug-in extracted from Chrome:

    sudo apt-get install browser-plugin-freshplayer-pepperflash

Then restart possibly running Firefox instances and visit https://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/ again to verify that you're now running a Flash version 19 or higher.

  • Or simply install Google Chrome browser...
  • or Chromium browser plus pepperflashplugin-nonfree (available since 14.04)
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  • E: Unable to locate package browser-plugin-freshplayer-pepperflash
    – mrigendra
    Feb 25, 2016 at 17:31
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    installed chrome and it plays the required videos.
    – mrigendra
    Feb 25, 2016 at 17:34
  • Sorry, my mistake. That package became available only since 15.10. I edited the answer to reflect that awareness.
    – Byte Commander ♦
    Feb 26, 2016 at 10:23

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