@leocg said in Flash not working on Opera 64:

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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 site

https://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.

Well, congratulations. That proved to be the magic answer. I confess I was skeptical going to an archive designed for Ubuntu, but after diving down through the archives, I found the file. It turns out I had a file by the same name in /usr/lib64/opera, but it was only about half the size. I overwrote it with the new file and voilá, everything is good. Thanks much!

RE Aljazeera's videos, I normally go to the bottom of their home page where there are a few videos along with a featured video. However, when I followed the link you gave there, I in fact saw several videos. With Flash enabled in Opera I was able to view them, but very, very choppy, useless really, but they were all there.

If BBC is falling back to something else, I would have to assume that it's not WebM because when I disable Flash in Opera, I always get a notification that I have to install Flash to view the video.

When I went to Opera's site to download the program, I noticed that it is definitely Ubuntu-oriented. I had to scrounge a bit to find the rpm version so I'm guessing that they have made a corporate decision to focus on Ubuntu and derivatives and possibly I will have to finally abandon Opera. It's not that I like Fedora better than Ubuntu, only that for the present Fedora is the only flavor of Linux that actually works right on my computer, at least of the 4 or 5 distros I've tried.

Tried it. No joy. On one site I noticed a little block icon pop up at the top right of the screen (with flash enabled or disabled). Clicking on it and choosing to play it made it work sort of. That is, the audio came through fine, but the video was very choppy. In my settings, when I have flash enabled, I don't have it blocking any site, so this doesn't really make any sense. When I disabled it at BBC's site they just tell me I can't see the video because I don't have flash enabled. At a Portuguese news site, with flash enabled, they tell me I can't view the video and suggest I get the latest version of Chrome.

I'm not sure about the 99% statistic. I realize Flash is on it's way out, but it looks to me like a number - lots - of sites are still using it. I went to Aljazeera's site, right clicked on a video that wouldn't play and chose "player information" (or something like that). It reported that the technology was Flash.

When I went to the Adobe link you suggested, it told me to enable Flash and gave me a button to do so, even though I've checked it two or three times in Opera's settings and it was always enabled. After clicking on that button the flash video worked, but when I went back to Aljazeera, it still wouldn't work. So I tried a video on bbc.co.uk/news and got the message about enabling flash player again. So I clicked again and the video played. At the same time they showed a message saying I would have to upgrade my browser or device because in 2020 Flash would be history.

Now, regarding H.264, Fedora does have GStreamer H.264 codec, which I installed, though I have no clue as to whether Opera can deal with it or not. After reading your message I poked around until I discovered that I could also install ffmpeg via the rpm fusion repository, so I did that too. And just to be sure, I then restarted my computer. It was after restarting that I did the above test at BBC and Aljazeera. So there's something else going on here and I guess that until someone figures it out, I'll have to use Chrome, at least for sites with videos that I want to see.

Incidentally, I never have problems with youtube videos, which of course are html5

I'm having the same problem on Fedora 30 and I also installed Flash from Adobe's site. The videos can be seen when using Chrome in the same OS.

Just a ditto here. I'm not real wild about the new interface either, and I notice that my personal login icon was either moved somewhere else or no longer appears anywhere. OK, change happens and the interface issue is a matter of taste, but I've been obliged to move to Chrome to see pdfs as I just get a gray screen when I have to open a pdf. Hopefully it will be resolved soon or I will have to move permanently to Chrome.

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