Hi,
I recently heard of Palemoon and it's benefits. So I wantet to give it a try. It feels very good to use but I have a problem playing flash videos. Almost every time trying it says "The Adobe Flash plugin has crashed. Reload the page to try again". It doesn't crash the whole browser.
I'm on Arch Linux 64 bit. The flasplayer is version 11.2.202.569-1 (latest as of today). I tried these Palemoon AUR packages: palemoon 26.1.0-1, palemoon-bin 26.1.0-1, palemoon-git 26.1.0b1+d756344-1. I also tried the "bzipped tarball" directly. All show the same behaviour.
I searched the web and found solutions for other flash crashes which were solved by disabling Protected mode. I tried that by adding "ProtectedMode=0" to /etc/adobe/mms.cfg. I can tell that it's recognize because it changes behaviour slightly. With that option the whole browser freezes for some seconds when trying to play flash video, then it starts responding again but the Flash plugin still crashes.
Please let me know if you need more information.
[Solved (workaround)]Flashplayer crashes almost every time when trying to play a video
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wudu83
[Solved (workaround)]Flashplayer crashes almost every time when trying to play a video
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biopsin
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Re: Flashplayer crashes almost every time when trying to play a video
Hi,
I think Adobe stop develop flash for linux long time ago, you should switch to chromium-pepper-flash for now.
Make shure you have freshplayerplugin installed and then download, unpack chrome and move /PepperFlash to /lib/chromium-pepper-flash
Use this link http://www.ubuntuupdates.org/ppa/google_chrome to get latest version.
then unpack deb "ar x downloaded_version.deb" and untar payload "tar xf data.tar.xz" move /PepperFlash folder to /lib/chromium-pepper-flash and set owner to root. restart palemoon and check config:plugins
also understand plugin is not sandboxed, so get to know firejail maybe..
I think Adobe stop develop flash for linux long time ago, you should switch to chromium-pepper-flash for now.
Make shure you have freshplayerplugin installed and then download, unpack chrome and move /PepperFlash to /lib/chromium-pepper-flash
Use this link http://www.ubuntuupdates.org/ppa/google_chrome to get latest version.
then unpack deb "ar x downloaded_version.deb" and untar payload "tar xf data.tar.xz" move /PepperFlash folder to /lib/chromium-pepper-flash and set owner to root. restart palemoon and check config:plugins
also understand plugin is not sandboxed, so get to know firejail maybe..
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Moonraker
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Re: Flashplayer crashes almost every time when trying to play a video
You dont need to download chrome as the non-free pepperflash is already in the linux repos and can be installed from there.
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wudu83
Re: Flashplayer crashes almost every time when trying to play a video
Some time after starting this thread I stumbled over the "Linux specific information" thread and saw the Freshplayer/Pepperflash entry. Both packages are available for Arch in AUR.
I tried it and got Palemoon to use Pepperflash. The videos started playing without the plugin to crash but unfortunately they don't play well. It's more like a slideshow so that is not an option.
I'm not sure about the Adobe Flash development. It still gets updates but perhaps it's just security fixes.
I tried it and got Palemoon to use Pepperflash. The videos started playing without the plugin to crash but unfortunately they don't play well. It's more like a slideshow so that is not an option.
I'm not sure about the Adobe Flash development. It still gets updates but perhaps it's just security fixes.
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Moonraker
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Re: Flashplayer crashes almost every time when trying to play a video
v11.2 of flash for linux will receive security updates for 5 years after its release.It still functions just fine as im using it with no issues.
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wudu83
Re: Flashplayer crashes almost every time when trying to play a video
Hi,
it seems that I have a solution/workaround for my problem. I found this askubuntu thread: http://askubuntu.com/questions/117127/f ... pears-blue. I know it's a different topic but it was sugested in another thread about crashes which I can't find anymore.
I used the "Prevent Flash Player from finding libvdpau" workaround and had no Flash crashes so far.
it seems that I have a solution/workaround for my problem. I found this askubuntu thread: http://askubuntu.com/questions/117127/f ... pears-blue. I know it's a different topic but it was sugested in another thread about crashes which I can't find anymore.
I used the "Prevent Flash Player from finding libvdpau" workaround and had no Flash crashes so far.