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    • A Former User
      A Former User last edited by A Former User

      a) Use a page that has a flash based element on it, like adobe's page here, and not some page that relies on js to determine if flash is installed
      https://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/about/

      b) On a page where flash "does not work", make sure the page does use flash and not some html5 tech that is partially supported or unsupported by opera.

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      • zibi1981
        zibi1981 @Guest last edited by

        @jimunderscorep Flash doesn't work, that's the short message.

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        • A Former User
          A Former User last edited by

          It works for me. Proof on the requested page

          2019-06-08-070408_1280x1024_scrot.png

          However, I prefer to keep it disabled for all sites and explicitly allow it on the ones I want.
          Are you using the snap version of opera by any chance!

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          • zibi1981
            zibi1981 @Guest last edited by

            Well, it didn't work for me, but I've read in other topic in this forum

            I just ran Opera -no-sandbox

            Flash player works great.

            Still no widevine yet... So I cannot play spotify or netflix in Opera Linux.

            Flash player now works perfectly on Opera. What't the reason for it? What "-no-sandbox" option really does?

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            • A Former User
              A Former User last edited by

              I updated today Opera, and the result is:7d70930d-b0a0-47e4-95d4-8f7baea3a403-image.png
              But still can not play all youtube videos neither netflix or spotify...
              System:
              14cb47a6-0af4-4eb1-8f56-73b47c10e2f9-image.png
              Opera:
              f3d8cc14-6134-4439-b467-536f2bf7ac7d-image.png

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              • leocg
                leocg Moderator Volunteer @Guest last edited by

                @sgfdhsg And what Flash has to do with it?

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                • A Former User
                  A Former User @leocg last edited by

                  @leocg 32.0.0.192

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                  • leocg
                    leocg Moderator Volunteer @Guest last edited by

                    @sgfdhsg I didn't ask for the Flash version.

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                    • A Former User
                      A Former User @leocg last edited by

                      @leocg oh sorry.

                      I wan't to use as a personal machin, so for example I can not play any facebook videos, or other videos too, from another websites(for example from index.hu) etc.

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                      • pindos
                        pindos @Guest last edited by

                        @sgfdhsg , maybe the problem is not in flash, but in libffmpeg.so? I had something like this two days ago.

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                        • leocg
                          leocg Moderator Volunteer @Guest last edited by

                          @sgfdhsg Those sites don't use Flash. I guess no serious major site uses Flash nowadays except for very exceptional conditions.

                          Try reading one of the dozen topics about videos not playing on Opera for Linux.

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                          • zibi1981
                            zibi1981 @Guest last edited by

                            @sgfdhsg You have to replace the original libffmpeg.so located in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera/ with the one extracted from Chromium browser if I remember correctly.

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                            • pindos
                              pindos @zibi1981 last edited by

                              @zibi1981 , yes you are right! Chromium's libffmpeg.so is in /usr/lib/chromium-browser.

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                              • A Former User
                                A Former User last edited by

                                @pindos @leocg @zibi1981 Thanlk you all.
                                I don't have /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/opera. Opera is installed to /usr/lib64/opera.
                                In /usr/lib/chromium-browser i have a libffmpeg.so but it's a symbolic link to /etc/alternatives/libffmpeg.so which is a symbolic link to the file in /usr/lib64/chromium-browser/libffmpeg.so.fedora.

                                I copid the libffmpeg.so.fedora to the folder of opera as libffmpeg.so but nothing changed....

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                                • pindos
                                  pindos @Guest last edited by

                                  @sgfdhsg , sometimes it is useful to clear browsing data. Navigate to opera://settings/clearBrowserData and check "Content settings" in Advanced tab. This helped me to make Flash working.

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                                  • A Former User
                                    A Former User last edited by

                                    @zibi1981 Something to note: snap sandboxes apps (and therefore Opera, if installed via snap) to their own little folder inside snap on the root of the drive. This means that Opera cannot interact with Flash, as it is NOT installed in Opera's snap. That's why --no-sandbox fixes it: Opera can find Flash as it is not restricted to their own little space. At least, I think that's how it works.

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                                    • A Former User
                                      A Former User last edited by

                                      Hello guys

                                      Using Opera in the Deepin Manjar or Deeplin ArcLinux occurs the same situation. Adobe flash player plugins do not work on Opera, Google Chrome and Vivaldi

                                      Browsers that are running at the moment without any problem are Firefox and Chromium

                                      Adobe flash player and pepperflash are in their most recent version, being 32.0.0.207.1

                                      Does anyone have any tips on how to reestablish the functionality of adobe flash player in Opera using the Distros mentioned above?

                                      Follow some Opera images on some sites that have the plugin available and do not work.

                                      [img]https://i.imgur.com/OBQTAT2.png[/img]

                                      [img]https://i.imgur.com/6EVUQXT.png[/img]

                                      [img]https://i.imgur.com/6EVUQXT.png[/img]

                                      Your Considerations

                                      Edson

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                                      • A Former User
                                        A Former User last edited by

                                        Linux developers and owners of browsers need to understand that the novice and novice user, when browsing any page, wants the adobe flash player application to work until the date of its definitive closure. The application is still active and many web pages contain the plugin. What to do for this people to understand this (!?)

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                                        • A Former User
                                          A Former User @pindos last edited by

                                          @pindos Thank you, I tried, nothing changed...

                                          Today I updated the flash to 32.0.0.207 but no change....

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                                          • A Former User
                                            A Former User last edited by

                                            @edsonmartim
                                            There is not such thing as deepin manjaro or deepin arch.
                                            Are you on deepin, which is debian based, or in manjaro, which is arch based?
                                            If you are on something that is arch based, ppapi (pepper) flash plugin malfunction is related to the bug that loup001 said at the first messages of the topic.

                                            I agree for the second part, but allow me to post an experience I had last year. For some reason and for a couple of days, my firefox was failing to play html5 streams and it was falling back to flash when it was available. The browser's performance was so awful that once I got it to play the streams as html5, I immidiately disabled flash so as I won't deal with that crappy performance again.

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