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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 player update in Xubuntu 14.04

I have an old laptop which hard disk just works with Xubuntu. Unfortunately, time has passed and Flashplayer needs an update. In many websites I usually visit, I need to update to Adobe Flash Player ...
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adobe-flashplugin provides out of date Flash

Not a duplicate as per the answer! This is my first posting here and I'm still a novice user of Ubuntu. I use Ubuntu 17.10 and Firefox 59.0.2 (64 bits). I've already installed the flash plug-in as I ...
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Cannot download (anything) in Ubuntu 17.04 [duplicate]

I installed Ubuntu recently , I tried to update it but it responses that it is Failed , I couldn't download anything from the software center, I can't even install any plug-ins or chrome or even vlc !!...
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Will a flash player plugin be needed for internet video in 18.04?

I know some websites still ask for flash being installed, like for a chess playing site. But in Ubuntu Budgie 18.04 (at the date I am posting less than a week before becoming stable) without a ...
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Adobe Flash Player Disabled

I am new to Linux (and very green). I have installed Linux Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and I want to play Amazon Prime Music. When I try, I get an error message saying Adobe Flash player is disabled. I searched ...
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Ubuntu 16.04 Firefox can't play some video despite flash installed

I'm facing an issue with Firefox 59.0.2 in Ubuntu 16.04 (up to date): Some video simply won't play. All youtube videos work, but the following doesn't work (it loads forever): https://www.reddit.com/...
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Ubuntu Restricted Extras Won't Work

Ok, so, I installed Ubuntu-Restricted-Extras on Ubuntu version 16.04 LTS. I have all the updates. I used the terminal to install it because I couldn't find it in Ubuntu Software. But what I want to ...
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How To Install The Adobe Flash Plugin In Firefox (Snap Package)?

I recently installed the Firefox snap package (originally announced here). Aside from lacking global menu / locally integrated menu support, everything is working flawlessly. However, the snap ...
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Flash Player not working on latest Chrome under Xenial

I've looked through the various questions & answers on this topic. However, I thought that I'd post a new question as Xenial is LTS & I have the latest version 65.0.3325.162-1 of Chrome ...
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How to recover the corrupted flash drive ?

My Flash drive is corrupted and I am trying to recover it using this answer in ask ubuntu whose link is this https://askubuntu.com/a/37775/658451. I have tried lsblk sudo blkid sudo fdisk -l ...
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How can I check that my Adobe Flash installation is up to date? [duplicate]

I have, recently, noticed permission errors when installing updates to Adobe Flash. Are these serious? Is my Flash installation fully up to date? How can I check?
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I can not play HBO videos in my Ubuntu 16.04 LTS in any of the browsers. How to fix this issue?

I have tried everything, HBONOW on Ubuntu 16.04LTS, I also tried the HAL lib and still it doesn't work in Chromium or Firefox browser. I also removed the Adobe Flash Plugin and tried using the ...
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Flash plugin not working in Ubuntu 16.04

I cannot play Amazon music library in Ubuntu 16.04 (64-bit) with google chrome Version 64.0.3282.186 (Official Build) (64-bit). I have installed flashplugin-installer. I get the error message Adobe ...
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Can't watch 4OD (UK)

When I try to watch streaming video from 4OD, I get a message saying I have to update Flash. After going through the update process, I get a message saying my flash is already up to date. I used to ...
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How to get Amazon music to work in firefox or chrome [duplicate]

I have updated and installed adobe but I am receiving this message error still. And Amazon music will not stream at all, I am 100% new to Ubuntu/ Linux and just learning. Guidance much appreciated.
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16.04 Opera Browser: flash [duplicate]

So I can't play flash videos on my 16.04 lts from most sites (imdb trailers for one), yet Youtube plays well (because it is html5 and not fĺash?). I am confused as to if this is a flash problem or ...
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Is Flash player software installed on Ubuntu by default?

Do we need to download flashplayer on Ubuntu or is it already there? I installed it on my PC just by passing the command in terminal: sudo apt-get insall flashplugin-installer And it doesn't seem ...
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Ubuntu 17.10 Chromium 64.0.3282.119 FLASH broken again

Adobe Flash is broken AGAIN. Obviously something updated recently and now the flash plugin won't work again. I've tried installing from Adobe, I've tried installing from the Canonical partners repo, ...
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I am trying to download Adobe Flash 10 for Ubuntu 16.04.03 - 64 bit OS

It gives me an error message of Package "adobe-flashplugin"is virtual. This is after finding it on https://apps.ubuntu.com/cat/applications/oneiric/adobe-flashplugin/ and clicking the icon for "...
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Flash version 9,0 or greater required in Ubuntu 14.04

I'm trying to watch videos on techtalks.tv. Those are talks where the presentation slides are shown along the videos. Unfortunately this only works on my Windows machines (using Internet Explorer). Is ...
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Installing Ubuntu by flash drive [duplicate]

If we are installing Ubuntu by flash drive can we generate the flashdrive with poweriso in another laptop?
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Making Flash work on Firefox Quantum 57 (PPAPI, NPAPI, pepper), Ubuntu 16.04 [duplicate]

In this post I look rather for clarification than technical solution (the problem is already solved, see below). I just upgraded from 14.04 to 16.04 and installed a fresh Firefox, which happened to ...
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Flash Plugin for Firefox Quantum in Ubuntu 14.04 [duplicate]

I have downloaded tar.gz file of the lastest firefox-quantum today. I don't wish the old firefox to be replaced. Like the old firefox, I didn't find any single plugin especially the flash-plugin ...
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After Opera update websites with flash doesn't work

Website such as https://coub.com doesn't work after opera update. Version: 49.0.2725.56 - Opera is up to date Update stream: Stable System: Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS (x86_64; Unity) Running opera ...
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Can't enable Flash in Chrome 63.0.3239.84

Whenever I try to watch NBC Live Sports I get a message telling me to restart Chrome to enable Adobe Flash Player. Restarting doesn't help. I'm running Ubuntu 17.10. Any idea how I can enable Flash ...
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Failed to load “libpepflashplayer.so” on Firefox - Ubuntu

I use Ubuntu 16.04 and my browser is Firefox 57.0.1 In some websites (like this site ), the error message below appears where it's supposed to be a flash object I had already installed the ...
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Update-notifier-common & flashplugin-installer errors

I'm new to Linux. I just dual booted Ubuntu 16.04 on a Windows 10 computer. Every time I try to install anything errors having to do with update-notifier-common and flashplugin-installer. Here is an ...
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How to get Flash to work on Firefox? [duplicate]

I'm on Ubuntu 17.10. This post, says that Flash is available in the software center, but it is not for me at least. I tried downloading from their site; first I tried APT which failed with the message ...
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Is there any way to download Adobe flash? [duplicate]

I am trying to use Flash for habbo.com. I cannot get it to download. Is it even possible? Any recommendations or tips would be highly appreciated.
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Porblem with Flash player under Ubuntu 16 LTS [closed]

I'm preparing for CCNA from netacad website. Perhaps some of you have seen the platform, It offers a text materials next to picture or flash player objects. The flash animations work well, but I ...
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Why do my HTML5 sites on Firefox not work? [closed]

I was previously using Ubuntu 16.04 LTE but upgraded to 17.10. Firefox also upgrade but I lost the HTML5 function on two (and possibly more) websites. Dailymotion, Twitch and Facebook videos now do ...
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Flash suddenly no longer working in FF and Chromium - ... properties-gtk installed

For some obscure reason flash has stopped working on my Ubuntu 14.04 a few days ago - in Firefox and Chrome, both are the latest versions. I have uninstalled flash and re-installed from the Adobe ...
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How can I run flash automatically Chromium 62.0.3202.62?

I´m running Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, with Chromium 62.0.3202.62. I need a way to run flash automatically for a small project which runs local content. In the settings you only have two options for flash to ...
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Is there a solution to activate Flash in Firefox 56?

In Linux ubuntu 16.04, When I open a page that uses or works with FLASH, nothing appears in the flash content and in the plugins everything is fine, flash is in mode (ACTIVATE ALWAYS) and nothing ...
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How to get Flash to play through HDMI

I've had a litany of sound problems, in particular with Adobe Flash on Firefox. I can get most sounds to play through the TV speakers, which are connected to my Ubuntu laptop through HDMI, but I can't ...
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flash for ubuntu mate 16.04 on 32 bit system

How can I setup flash to work on chromium and or mozilla on ubuntu mate 16.04 on a 32 bit system? I've been researching and trying several options but nothing seems to work. I also came to find out ...
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Playing old shockwave flash games on Lubuntu 17.04

I know it's an old plugin, but there were a lot of fun games I recall really enjoying as a kid that ran on Shockwave Flash. What I'm wondering is if there is a way to install Shockwave Flash on ...
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Ubuntu's stopped playing music/video files & Youtube

Two days ago (after an Ubuntu base update, iirc), all music and video files on my computer stopped playing. Clementine and Videos open them, but won't play them - no error message, no request for ...
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How do I play .swf GAMES on ubuntu?

A lot of people say that you can do it on a browser, but it just appears on the download section. But I dont want to go through the trouble of fixing the browser and all that; plus, I dont want to use ...
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The Adobe Flash plugin has crashed

I installed ubuntu a few days ago. I remember that Flash Player works immediately after instaling system. Now I was disappointed because I can't load a website that use this technology. What can I do ...
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Facebook pictures and videos not showing up in Ubuntu 16.04

I've been using ubuntu for over a year and this is the first time i get this problem. Pictures and videos in facebook don't load after some minutes i've opened the browser (tried googlechrome, ...
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Flash doesn't work in Chrome: "Restart Chrome to enable Adobe Flash Player"

Flash, or more precisely Tidal (the logged in version which runs on Flash), doesn't work in Google Chrome beta. The browser constantly displays the "Restart Chrome to enable Adobe Flash Player" modal ...
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Choppy online playback and browsing

I wanna say that I'm new to Linux systems so there might be obvious things that I missed. I had Linux mint 17 on my Dell Latitude D531, was working fine with some problems regarding booting until ...
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Can't play Hotstar Premium videos in Ubuntu

I am able to play non-premium videos using url-extracting extensions in chrome. But it is not working for Premium videos. Is there any solution? I have a premium hotstar account.
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Can't play instagram videos on Chromium

I can play instagram's videos on firefox, but can't on Chromium. I have no issue with other videos on youtube and facebook. The problem only occurs on instagram videos on Chromium (maybe vines too?). ...
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adobe-flashplugin blocked on local SWF files after latest firefox (v. 55.0.2) update on Ubuntu 16.04.3

This problem is somehow complementary to that posed by question adobe-flashplugin active and working in Firefox, not in Chromium. After the latest xenial update, local access to an SWF file was ...
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Ubuntu 16.04.3 chromium get rid of "Adobe Flash Player was blocked because it was out of date"

I have the above issue since a few weeks, when I click Run this time, flash just works, but I want to get rid of the annoying message. I have searched the internet and the consensus seems to be to ...
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Fireofx 57.0a1 64-bit - YouTube HTML5 Video Player

Youtube HTML5 is not working anymore after I upgraded to Firefox Nightly 57.0a1. Anyone got it to work? On the same machine (Ubuntu 16.04) I have Chromium browser, where all the Youtube HTML5 options ...
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Adobe Air error when installing Scratch 2 [duplicate]

I installed successfully Adobe Air on Ubuntu 16.04 64bit. Nonetheless I encountered a problem. When I try to install Scratch 2 I get this message: Sorry, an error has occurred. The application could ...
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How to make Flash Player recognize my microphone

I want to be able to use the website midomi to identify songs I'm humming. Unfortunately the microphone isn't recognized, so I went for the test mic tab. I've explicitly allowed the site to run flash ...
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