1. Ubuntu Firefox Update Flash

I decided to upgrade my Mac Mini to Linux over the weekend with excellent results until I encountered an extremely annoying error in Firefox: “Additional plugins are required to display all the media on this page”. Going through the wizard a dozen times didn't fix the problem, so what gives? Explains how to install Flash Player under Ubuntu Linux desktop operating. How do I install Flash Player for Firefox web browser. Flash Player For Firefox Manual Install Ubuntu 12.04. It seems that I have Shockwave Flash 11.2.202. Download free Adobe Flash Player. Team/Plugins - Ubuntu Wiki.

For many, one of the biggest obstacles in is installing applications. Because the computing world has grown so accustomed to click and install, the idea of having to manually install something is very foreign. And that is one of the reasons Firefox and Linux sometimes make for a deadly combination. But it doesn't have to be that way. Installing plugins for the Linux version of isn't that difficult.once you know what you are doing. We'll start with the most difficult plugin first. This blog post is also available in PDF form as a.

Java is a plugin that, unfortunately, requires an entire runtime language to be installed on your machine. To do this you need to install either or Java Runtime Engine (JRE) ( NOTE: There is also a Blackdown version of JRE, but at the time of this writing, its site was down so no link could be provided.). Let's go with the SUN version (because you don't have to register on its site to get it). You will be able to download either a self-extracting file or an rpm in self-extracting format. Which form you choose to download will depend upon what distribution of Linux you use. I am running Fedora, so I will download the rpm format. Once you download the file, you will first have to open up a terminal window (yes you are going to have to run a few simple commands) and su to root.

Once you are the root user, you will issue the following commands from within the directory where you saved the self-extracting file: chmod u+x jre-XXX-rpm.bin./jre-XXX-rpm.bin rpm -ivh jre-XXX.rpm where XXX is the release number and architecture. You should not get any errors. Once you have done the above, it's time to help Firefox to work with the new runtime environment you just installed. You're going to have to create a symbolic link to a specific file within the JRE environment. The symbolic link will be created inside your browser's plugin directory. You can do this two ways: globally or per-user. If you are the only user on the machine, it's best to do it in your / directory.

Let's do it that way. As your normal user, issue the command cd in the terminal window.

That command will change you to your home directory. Next, issue the command cd.mozilla/plugins. Now you are in the correct directory to make your symbolic link. You need to first find the file libjavapluginoji.so on your machine. To find that, run the command: locate libjavapluginoji.so When I run the command I get the results: /usr/java/jre1.6.002/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavapluginoji.so Your results may vary.

So now that I know where the file is, I issue the command that will make a soft link to the correct file. Ln -s /usr/java/jre1.6.002/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavapluginoji.so Now, open up Firefox and in the URL location bar, enter about:plugins. You should see a listing similar to that shown in Figure A. Figure A No matter how many applet versions you have listed, Java is now properly installed. And that's that for Java — now on to easier plugins. Flash The plugin is simple. All you need to do is for your machine, install the file, and then copy libflashplayer.so to your /.mozilla/plugins directory.

Let's stick with the rpm-type file. Download the flash-plugin-XXX.i386.rpm file (Where XXX is the release number) and then issue (as root) the command rpm -ivh flash-plugin-XXX.rpm (again, where XXX is the release number) to install flash-plugin.

As before, you are going to have to locate the correct file in order to copy it to the plugins directory. Issue the command locate libflashplayer.so. You should see this in your results: /usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so Change to the /.mozilla/plugins directory and run (as root): cp /usr/lib/flash-plugin/libflashplayer.so /home/USERNAME/.mozilla/pugins (where USERNAME is the actual username). Now, you need to change ownership of the file so it can be used by a non-root user.

Do this with the command (run as root from within the /home/USERNAME/.mozilla/plugins directory — where USERNAME is the actual name of the standard user): chown USERNAME.USERNAME libflashplayer.so. Restart Firefox and run the command about:plugins and you should see a listing as shown in Figure B. Figure B Both Futuresplash and Shockwave will be installed with this single plugin installation. Mplayer The mplayerplug-in uses the mplayer application to play movies opened by your browser. Before you install the plugin, you have to have mplayer successfully installed. There are two simple ways to install mplayer (both run as root from the terminal window): yum install mplayer or apt-get install mplayer Once you have mplayer installed you can then install the mplayerplug-in. To do this, from the mplayerplug-in site.

We'll continue with our Fedora example. Once you have that file, install it with the command (run as root): rpm -ivh mplayerplug-in-XXX.i386.rpm (Where XXX is the release number) Now you have to locate the file mplayerplug-in.so.

Locate this file with the command locate mplayerplug-in.so. You should see a listing similar to /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/mplayerplug-in.so. Copy that file and change ownership of it. You have to copy the file in the same way you did the libflashplayer.so file above. So as root, issue the command: cp /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/mplayerplug-in.so /home/USERNAME/.mozilla/plugins (where USERNAME is the standard user) And then run the command to change ownership to the standard user: chown USERNAME.USERNAME mplayerplug-in.so (Where USERNAME is the name of the standard user) Restart Firefox and check about:plugins to see a listing for mplayerplug-in. This time, however, you will not see a listing for mplayerplug-in.

You will see that video (in various formats) is supported (as shown in Figure C). Figure C A listing for video support will indicate that the mplayerplug-in is properly installed. Final thoughts You now have the most useful plugins installed for Firefox. Naturally, there are tons more plugins available. Fortunately, they are all installed in a similar manner.

So hopefully, you now see that installing plugins for Linux Firefox isn't nearly as difficult as you thought. Happy browsing (in Linux!) Related Topics.

Mozilla will stop supporting. But for Linux users, that won’t make a major difference for one of the biggest plugins in the browser world—Adobe Flash. You may not know it, but Adobe back in 2012.

Fear not, though: An open-source wrapper allows Firefox to use the fresh Flash code that Adobe’s still pumping out for other browsers. Want to stay up to date on Linux, BSD, Chrome OS, and the rest of the World Beyond Windows?

Bookmark the or follow. Adobe thinks you should use Chrome on Linux Mozilla has announced plans to stop supporting most NPAPI plugins in Firefox by the end of 2016. But they’re still going to support Flash, because it’s still—sadly—a big part of the web. That said, if you’re using Firefox on Linux, your Flash player is already. Adobe stopped supporting the NPAPI version of Flash on Linux, and now only updates it with security fixes—and even those will end on May 4, 2017, five years from the release date of the last supported version released. Adobe points Linux users at that Pepper (PPAPI) version of Flash, which is included with Chrome and can be installed in Chromium and Opera. The outdated Flash 11 available in official repositories.

But Mozilla doesn’t want to support Pepper. It would rather try to push new web standards instead of creating new frameworks for old-style plugins. This leaves Firefox users on Linux with Flash 11.2 while other platforms—including Chrome and Chromium—are already up to Flash 19. Want the latest version of Flash on Linux? Switch to Chrome, Chromium, or Opera. That’s the Adobe party line. Really, we should be happy this is even an option, as in general.

That PPAPI-on-Linux code is used when the Flash player runs on Google Linux-based Chrome OS, however, so Adobe can’t afford to snub Chrome on Linux. Fresh Player Plugin to the rescue If you want the latest version of Flash in Firefox, the Linux community has come to the rescue. Fresh Player Plugin is an open-source PPAPI-to-NPAPI compatibility layer. Basically, it’s a way to use the up-to-date Pepper version of Flash for Linux in Firefox on Linux.

It can even use hardware-accelerated decoding of videos on the latest Linux distributions, including Ubuntu 14.10 and 15.04. Fresh Player Plugin has now been in development for more than a year, and it should be fairly stable for most people. It doesn’t implement any sandboxing, however, meaning that all those Pepper sandboxing security benefits aren’t available to Firefox users, so beware. It’s still safest to run the latest version of Flash in a Chromium-based browser like Chrome, Chromium itself, or Opera. Adobe Flash 19 in Firefox for Linux, courtesy of Fresh Player Plugin. You can choose to compile from source with the freely available code, but the folks over at, an Ubuntu-focused blog, provide it in a so you can easily install it on Ubuntu.

It’s easy to do—just open a terminal and run the following commands in order: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nilarimogard/webupd8 sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install freshplayerplugin You now have the compatibility layer installed. All you have to do is and launch it—it will download the latest version of the Pepper plugin.

When you launch Firefox, Firefox will automatically load Fresh Player Plugin, and it’ll check the directory Chrome stores its plugins in and automatically load it. You now have the latest version of Flash in Firefox on Linux.

Ubuntu Firefox Update Flash

Adobe Flash 19 in Firefox for Linux, courtesy of Fresh Player Plugin. Just uninstall the freshplayerplugin package from any software management tool if you decide you’d rather not use it. If Adobe does end security updates for the NPAPI version of Flash on Linux in May 4, 2017 without proving a path forward for Linux users, Fresh Player Plugin will become the only way to use a patched version of Flash in FIrefox on Linux at all. It’s good this software is being developed, as it may become very important soon. Hopefully most of us can by then.