Camaleón <noela...@gmail.com> writes: > On Wed, 19 Sep 2012 17:27:35 +0200, lee wrote: > >> Camaleón <noela...@gmail.com> writes: >>> >>> Should that happens, you will have to choose: looking for a proper >>> replacement of the plugin or simply avoid sites that make use of an >>> unsupported feature in your system. >> >> And that isn't a good situation. > > Sadly, we can't be sure on what the future will provide, so worrying know > is useless and wasteful. The only we can do is having a "Plan B", that's > all.
Like I said, nothing to worry about. Do you have a plan B? >>>> Well, there's not point in worrying about it. We'll see what happens. >>> >>> I never liked the Flash Player concept: it simply breaks the way html >>> stands for. Anyway, which today standards in our hands, I do not see >>> much future for what Flash Player is currently designed for and >>> provides. Maybe it was "nice and cool" (sigh) 10 years ago but not know >>> (and needless to say it's buggy as hell). >> >> That didn't prevent it from becoming widely used. Almost nobody likes >> it, everyone uses it, and if you want to watch videos, you can't >> without. > > Sure, that's why I have it installed but again, the fact is widely spread > is not in my hands. Nobody said it is. > The big question is: what would happen should Adobe Flash Player > starts breaking _now_ for Linux? I wouldn't miss it, that's for sure, > so if you ask me, I wish Adobe stopped their Linux flash support > *today* because that will force me to find an alternative solution. If they stopped supplying security fixes (and who can tell for sure that they will actually do that), the version you have now wouldn't suddenly stop to work. It seems that lots of people have tried to find an alternative. Do you think you can do better than them? >> I don't have it installed anymore and I can't find one of these sites >> atm. > > Fine, then problem solved :-) No, it's not solved because I can't play or download videos on these sites anymore. > The source code of the URL has/points to none "swf" file so whataver > problem you face with it in seems unrelated to the Flash Player plugin. I'd have to install it again and check. >>>> Ok, then how do I do that? >>> >>> I usually go to Google and search for it >:-) >> >> Well, I tried that years ago and just tried it again and still didn't >> find a solution. You seem to know how to do it since you say there's no >> problem with it, so maybe you can enlighten us by telling us how to. > > (...) > > Better that you first start saying what you have tested and in what way > it failed for you, don't you think? I removed the flashplayer library from adobe and now the only videos I can watch on websites are those on youtube. Other plugins (gnash, vlc, gecko) didn't fix that. > But again, as I already said, my only recommendation for dealing with > flash based websites is using the crappy Flash Player plugin from Adobe > until it completely dissapears from the face of the Earth (hope this > happens soon...). That means you don't have a solution, either. -- Debian testing amd64 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87392chgaz....@yun.yagibdah.de
