Flash not working on Opera 64
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burnout426 Volunteer last edited by
@jdandrews That will work, but the one that you overwrote is the one that is included with Opera for non-proprietary codecs that Opera can update when necessary. If you overwrite it, it breaks updating of that file. The one you downloaded should go in the lib_extra folder you create for separation of concerns purposes. Not a big deal though.
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pindos last edited byIt is strange, but Opera doesn't save site settings for Flash. For example, I set flash setting to Allow for https://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player.html. Flash works here fine. But when I close Opera and start it again the flash setting for this site is gone back to Ask(Default). What's the problem?
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A Former User last edited by
For one more time, the problem was not flash itself but opera's lack of support for h264....
About the substitution of that "bad" libffmpeg with a "good" one.
As I have before, solutions like these should start with a "proceed at your own risk", because you are replacing something that the app needs to work, with something else, built differently.
There was one thread some months ago where some debian user's opera crashed at launch because of that "good" libffmpeg he changed.As for opera forgetting sites that you have allowed flash to run.
If I remember correctly, this is a feature of chromium 75 or so and later. Sites are allowed to run flash as long as the browser is running. Once it is closed, the browser forgets it. -
leocg Moderator Volunteer last edited by
Flash Disabled by Default (Target: Chrome 76+ - July 2019)
Summary
Flash will be disabled by default, but can be enabled in Settings at which point explicit permission is still required for each sitehttps://www.chromium.org/flash-roadmap
You will need to allow Flash on sites every time you start Opera.
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A Former User last edited by
@leocg said in Flash not working on Opera 64:
Flash Disabled by Default (Target: Chrome 76+ - July 2019)
Summary
Flash will be disabled by default, but can be enabled in Settings at which point explicit permission is still required for each sitehttps://www.chromium.org/flash-roadmap
You will need to allow Flash on sites every time you start Opera.
This hasn't been my experience. When I first started poking around forums looking for a solution, the question of whether flash was enabled or not came up. When I checked on it, I saw that it was already enabled and I had never fooled with it before. And it has remained that way with no sites excluded ever since, except when I explicitly disabled it while experimenting. Possibly that is a characteristic unique to the rpm distribution.
If the last suggestion hadn't worked, I was going to uninstall Opera and try the snap version. It would be interesting to see if it has the same problem.
The thing that puzzles me in all of this discussion is why it's even necessary to go through all of this to enable a feature which is used all over the Internet. It looks like the Opera developers need to go to work on this one.
