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On Ubuntu 14.04, you cannot see flash contents using a webapp such as youtube or grooveshark.

I installed flashplugin-istaller and pepperflashplugin-nonfree and I can see flash contents on both firefox and chromium

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  • I wander whether it even makes sense - to run the Flash there e.g. Grooveshark has an HTML5 version too. Perhaps it is rather a problem with these webapps - the descriptors for the unity-webapps runner should feed it with the HTML5 version URL ....
    – user271356
    Apr 20, 2014 at 8:35
  • i have the same problem. i put a bug on landscape bugs.launchpad.net/unity-webapps-youtube/+bug/1310381 Apr 21, 2014 at 0:03
  • @Emilio Navarrete Lineros - thank you, I added myself to the bug affected users counter. Apr 22, 2014 at 11:01
  • @Radu Rădeanu: I understand webapps are using 'Ubuntu Web Browser' and not Chromium or Firefox or whatever is the default browser Apr 22, 2014 at 11:03
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    It's all about the Bug #1308842. For the moment, you should use other alternatives to webapps, because Oxide is adding support for pepper plugins, should be available shortly (comment #4). Apr 22, 2014 at 11:29

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For Youtube, search for "Browser" in Dash and open https://www.youtube.com/html5 then press "Request for HTML5 player".

For Grooveshark the only way is to change link "http://grooveshark.com/" with "http://html5.grooveshark.com/" in grooveshark.user.js file located in "/usr/share/unity-webapps/userscripts/unity-webapps-grooveshark"

P.S. I don't really understand why do you need to use webapp, but most of the functions are not gonna work anyway, until webapps will be fixed (not particular webapp, but webapp system).

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