IIRC, I have an open source workaround that lets me watch YouTube, but I can’t play a video linked to by a FB friend that appears to be an early version of the plot of God Is Not Dead and which caused her to say, “I love this. I wonder if it actually happened,” and I need to see it before I light into her for having grown even more stupid than when I met her and that there appears to have been an inverse relationship between her brain size and her growing bra size. <–Whew, now I don’t have to say it to her and can gently nudge her to Atheist professor myth - RationalWiki . She did, after all, express a little doubt.
Huh? 
http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/?no_redirect
Also, this: GOD is GOOD. | By Yeshua | Facebook
Looking at the comments, it seems to be the Einstein version.
Linux hates Adobe also.
I haven’t bothered to install Flash for a long time.
And this news came out in 2012.
It’s news to me, but I’ve only been using Linux for a couple months. So, wherefrom the mutual hatred?
Flash is a well-known vector for malware.
OK Linux doesn’t get much malware — let’s not rehash that, although I’ll just say I run neither anti-malware nor a firewall ( I only have a 3MB/s connection, and firewalls not only add a little overhead, but require opening ports etc. which is dull ) — but Adobe requires frequent updates, is not safe, and can be a cause of computer freezes.
I understand the rest of their software is fine; but Flash one can live without.
The very old may remember RealPlayer and QuickTime. They also were not necessarily to Japan’s advantage either.
But anyway, bra size is correlated with intelligence, and only idiots on Facebook aren’t atheists, or something. :rolleyes:
But it’s true. Bra size is tightly correlated with male intelligence.
OP is much confusing, but if you’re asking if there’s a newer flash player available for Linux than 11.2 the answer is yes. Chrome has a built-in flash player that is currently version 14.0. So if you need to play flash content that requires a later version of Flash, Chrome is the answer.
Right. It boils down to no longer supporting a certain type of plugin that is being phased out anyways. The NPAPI version of Flash on Linux was always the worst.
Adobe also stopped working on the ActiveX plugin, the one used for Internet Explorer. The difference is that Microsoft picked up the slack. No Linux distro did that, and neither did Mozilla, since their ultimate plan is to phase out NPAPI plugins altogether. That’s why all but Flash are disabled by default now. (You need to click to activate.)
NPAPI is just falling out of favor. It was the plugin infrastructure used in Netscape, so it’s old and rather insecure. Both Google and Mozilla are moving away from it. Google moved to P(epper)API, while Mozilla wants to do what they do with everything and move to pure JavaScript. The built in PDF plugins for both Firefox and Chrome demonstrate these philosophies. Mozilla’s PDF.js uses JavaScript, while Chrome’s plugin uses PAPI.
Adobe does still release security updates for the NPAPI plugin, and said plugin does work for most sites. I’ve seen Facebook games by one company that require 11.4, but that’s it.
I get the same message with Chrome and, this being that hellspawn Linux, when I click on the “Download Now” button on the Adobe page nothing happens.
If Adobe, Apple and the interwebz would decide whether or not they can do without Flash, it would help. For all its flaws, there’s no good replacement (no, HTML5 is not it). So we all shake hands and walk away from everything Flash does, and live with the gaps, or we keep Flash enabled until there is a viable replacement actually in working use.
Kinda difficult for other companies to work directly on ActiveX. It being proprietary and all.
Plus it purposefully competed with Flash for The Most Insecure Piece of Crap on the Internet Cup.
I suppose it is good that it mostly affects videos on Facebook, which are very likely to piss me off.
I don’t understand what was so confusing about the OP. I clearly stated the problem, then in a separate paragraph explained my understanding of what the video was about and a reason my friend might have thought it was a true story from the life of Albert Einstein. However, she might have always been that dumb and I didn’t notice because I was looking at her; she was quite graceful and symmetrical when we hung out long ago. Now there’s just more of her.
I have encountered that level of stupidity before, like the time we watched Billy Elliott at church and the old ladies wondered if it had been based on a true story. To my endless credit I did not blurt out that they were idiots and it was based on roughly 20% of the movies made since The Jazz Singer, including The Jazz Singer. Truly a saint, I am.
So the drugs still haven’t worn off, huh?
I think (maybe) when BigT said “working on” he meant “functioning on” as opposed to “updating/modifying” ActiveX.
Which is that you’ve chosen to use an outlier OS that is indifferently supported by commercial software makers.
Choose one.
I don’t dare let them. :eek:
Now can view the video in Firefox, it is what I thought it was, and after I posted the RationalWiki link she took down the post. For my next trick I will convince her that Big Pharma is not evil and vaccines don’t cause autism.
Wish me luck with that one.
No, I meant working on. While Microsoft designed ActiveX, they in no way prohibit other companies from designing plugins using it. That would kinda defeat the purpose of plugins. The whole idea is that third parties can add features to the browser.
Also, Microsoft didn’t take over–they worked together with Adobe, mostly so that Flash could become less of a resource hog on Windows 8 tablets, and so Microsoft could include the plugin in Metro mode.
I also seem to remember that Google paid Adobe to keep working on the PPAPI Linux version of Flash, and asked Mozilla to do the same. Mozilla declined.