On 05/05/2015 08:27 AM, David Sommerseth wrote:
>
>
> On 05/05/15 08:02, ToddAndMargo wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> SL 6.6 x64
>>
>> I looked over on
>>      https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/993679
>> for alternative to Flash.
>>
>> They recommended Lightspark or Gnash.  Neither of
>> which I can find with "yum --enablerepo=* whatprovides".
>>
>> Any other ways around Adobe's outdated flash plugin?
>> I am mainly concerned about all those flash graphics
>> I see on web sites.
>
> Hmmm ... well, if you're concerned about the flash graphics, why not
> ditch flash completely and you'll be able to ignore them all?  Most
> significant places these days supports HTML5 where flash mostly have a
> value (view video streams).
>
> Other than that ... yes, the version number of the RPM package Adobe
> provides is old.  And Adobe have said they do not actively develop new
> features on Linux.  But they have released security updates when that
> has been needed.  I've not caught that they've changed their involvement
> here:
>
> "NOTE: Adobe Flash Player 11.2 will be the last version to target Linux
> as a supported platform. Adobe will continue to provide security
> backports to Flash Player 11.2 for Linux. "
>
> <https://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/>
>
>


Hi David,

I do realize that adobe is backporting security updates.
The problem is that the other end doesn't know about
the backports and sometimes refused to run with such
an outdated version.

And, I would dearly love to ditch Flash altogether and have
tried it several time.  There is just too much stuff I
use that requires it.  I would love it if these folks
would switch to HTML5, but...

Here is a Flash graphic rich site as an example:
http://nutritiondata.self.com/facts/vegetables-and-vegetable-products/2942/2

What a mess without Flash.   mumble, mumble, mumble.

Thank you for helping me with this.

-T

p.s.  and on further research, I am finding that Lightspark
is for rendering .swf files, so it would have not worked
for Flash graphics anyway.  (I haven't had to play .swf
in ages.  When I did, I just played them mainly in VLC.)