Opera/Firefox speed, was Re: flash in stretch again

2017-10-12 Thread David Wright
TL;DR perhaps try http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/ On Thu 22 Jun 2017 at 13:00:35 (-0300), Wellington Terumi Uemura wrote: > I really recommend that you switch up to Opera and forget about > Chromium and Firefox for a number of reasons. It uses much less > resources, native AdBlock, embedded free

Re: flash in stretch again

2017-06-26 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Sun, 25 Jun 2017 18:03:22 -0400 Maureen L Thomas wrote: > > > On 06/25/2017 05:18 PM, Dan Norton wrote: > > > > > > On 06/25/2017 03:42 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote: > >> On Sat, 24 Jun 2017 22:17:13 -0400 Maureen L Thomas > >> wrote: > >> > >>> > >>> On 06/24/2017 07:29 PM, The Wanderer wrote:

Re: flash in stretch again

2017-06-26 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Sun, 25 Jun 2017 17:18:50 -0400 Dan Norton wrote: > > > On 06/25/2017 03:42 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote: > > On Sat, 24 Jun 2017 22:17:13 -0400 Maureen L Thomas > > wrote: > > > >> > >> On 06/24/2017 07:29 PM, The Wanderer wrote: > >>> On 2017-06-24 at 18:56, Maureen L Thomas wrote: > >>> > >>

Re: flash in stretch again

2017-06-25 Thread Maureen L Thomas
On 06/25/2017 05:18 PM, Dan Norton wrote: On 06/25/2017 03:42 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote: On Sat, 24 Jun 2017 22:17:13 -0400 Maureen L Thomas wrote: On 06/24/2017 07:29 PM, The Wanderer wrote: On 2017-06-24 at 18:56, Maureen L Thomas wrote: As a last desperate attempt I completely remov

Re: flash in stretch again

2017-06-25 Thread Dan Norton
On 06/25/2017 03:42 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote: On Sat, 24 Jun 2017 22:17:13 -0400 Maureen L Thomas wrote: On 06/24/2017 07:29 PM, The Wanderer wrote: On 2017-06-24 at 18:56, Maureen L Thomas wrote: As a last desperate attempt I completely removed firefox-esr and reinstalled it. I opened

Re: flash in stretch again

2017-06-25 Thread Carl Fink
On 06/25/2017 03:42 PM, Patrick Bartek wrote: ... The only file you need be concerned with is libflashplayer.so As root, using a terminal (or if your filemanager is able to switch to root priviledge), copy libflashplayer.so to /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/ One thing that has bitten me when doing th

Re: flash in stretch again

2017-06-25 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Sat, 24 Jun 2017 22:17:13 -0400 Maureen L Thomas wrote: > > > On 06/24/2017 07:29 PM, The Wanderer wrote: > > On 2017-06-24 at 18:56, Maureen L Thomas wrote: > > > >> As a last desperate attempt I completely removed firefox-esr and > >> reinstalled it. I opened it up and the first game actu

Re: flash in stretch again

2017-06-25 Thread Curt
On 2017-06-24, Maureen L Thomas wrote: > > > It returns /usr/lib/flashplugin-nonfree/libflashplayer.so > it also return one for gnash. could this be the problem or confusion? > > I think it is (although that path is compliant with the Debian wiki on the matter). On my machine, 'about:plugins' re

Re: flash in stretch again

2017-06-24 Thread Maureen L Thomas
On 06/24/2017 07:29 PM, The Wanderer wrote: On 2017-06-24 at 18:56, Maureen L Thomas wrote: As a last desperate attempt I completely removed firefox-esr and reinstalled it. I opened it up and the first game actually came up. But the next two games again stated that I needed flash. So I shut

Re: flash in stretch again

2017-06-24 Thread Maureen L Thomas
On 06/24/2017 07:29 PM, The Wanderer wrote: On 2017-06-24 at 18:56, Maureen L Thomas wrote: As a last desperate attempt I completely removed firefox-esr and reinstalled it. I opened it up and the first game actually came up. But the next two games again stated that I needed flash. So I shut

Re: flash in stretch again

2017-06-24 Thread The Wanderer
On 2017-06-24 at 18:56, Maureen L Thomas wrote: > As a last desperate attempt I completely removed firefox-esr and > reinstalled it. I opened it up and the first game actually came up. > But the next two games again stated that I needed flash. So I shut > down thinking that firefox had a problem

Re: flash in stretch again

2017-06-24 Thread Maureen L Thomas
On 06/24/2017 04:36 PM, Maureen L Thomas wrote: On 06/24/2017 07:09 AM, Curt wrote: On 2017-06-24, Maureen L Thomas wrote: Are there no fixes to this problem? I have tried everything that I know how to do. Still nothing and it doesn't matter which browser I use. It worked just fine in

Re: flash in stretch again

2017-06-24 Thread Maureen L Thomas
On 06/24/2017 07:09 AM, Curt wrote: On 2017-06-24, Maureen L Thomas wrote: Are there no fixes to this problem? I have tried everything that I know how to do. Still nothing and it doesn't matter which browser I use. It worked just fine in Jessie and I am really sorry it upgraded to Stretch.

Re: flash in stretch again

2017-06-24 Thread deloptes
david...@freevolt.org wrote: > If a user does not enable the non-free component of the archive, > apt-cache show will show no result for that search. The OP stated he downloaded the non free version. He/Her's problem is it doesn't work and the goal is to work. If OP does add the repo and use th

Re: flash in stretch again

2017-06-24 Thread davidson
On Sat, 24 Jun 2017, Hans wrote: Yeah, but this is an external 3rd party repo and not the original debian one. So it is clear, why it cannot be found. Yeah, I see now. I totally overlooked that it was a third-party repo package. Sorry for the pointless noise. You got that right. As far as I

Re: flash in stretch again

2017-06-24 Thread Hans
Yeah, but this is an external 3rd party repo and not the original debian one. So it is clear, why it cannot be found. As far as I know, this repo is meanwhile orphaned (or is this changed in the last years?) as the multimedia packages are integrated now in the original repos of debian. Do I m

Re: flash in stretch again

2017-06-24 Thread davidson
On Sat, 24 Jun 2017, deloptes wrote: Hans wrote: [...] I could not find a package named flashplayer-mozilla. Where is it? I am running debian/testing. [...] https://www.deb-multimedia.org/dists/stable/non-free/binary-i386/package/flashplayer-mozilla https://www.deb-multimedia.org/dists/stabl

Re: flash in stretch again

2017-06-24 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 6/24/17, Curt wrote: > On 2017-06-24, Maureen L Thomas wrote: >> >> Are there no fixes to this problem? I have tried everything that I know >> how to do. Still nothing and it doesn't matter which browser I use. It >> worked just fine in Jessie and I am really sorry it upgraded to Stretch. >

Re: flash in stretch again

2017-06-24 Thread Curt
On 2017-06-24, Maureen L Thomas wrote: > > Are there no fixes to this problem? I have tried everything that I know > how to do. Still nothing and it doesn't matter which browser I use. It > worked just fine in Jessie and I am really sorry it upgraded to Stretch. > Have you verified that 'upd

Re: flash in stretch again

2017-06-24 Thread deloptes
Hans wrote: > Hi, > >> you have to install this package - forget the download from adobe - it's >> much easier to use the debian package >> >> $ dpkg -l | grep flash >> ii flashplayer-mozilla3:26.0.0.126-dmo1 >> amd64Adobe Flash Player > > I could not find a packag

Re: flash in stretch again

2017-06-24 Thread Hans
Hi, > you have to install this package - forget the download from adobe - it's > much easier to use the debian package > > $ dpkg -l | grep flash > ii flashplayer-mozilla3:26.0.0.126-dmo1 > amd64Adobe Flash Player I could not find a package named flashplayer-mozill

Re: flash in stretch again

2017-06-23 Thread deloptes
Maureen L Thomas wrote: > > > On 06/23/2017 04:46 PM, Maureen L Thomas wrote: >> >> >> On 06/22/2017 02:32 AM, deloptes wrote: >>> Maureen L Thomas wrote: >>> I just updated some packages and it upgraded me to stretch. That is all fine but I cannot get flash to work yet again. I

Re: flash in stretch again

2017-06-23 Thread Jimmy Johnson
On 06/23/2017 08:50 PM, Maureen L Thomas wrote: On 06/23/2017 09:35 PM, Ralph Katz wrote: On 06/23/2017 06:30 PM, Maureen L Thomas wrote: [...] Are there no fixes to this problem? I have tried everything that I know how to do. Still nothing and it doesn't matter which browser I use. It w

Re: flash in stretch again

2017-06-23 Thread Maureen L Thomas
On 06/23/2017 11:50 PM, Maureen L Thomas wrote: On 06/23/2017 09:35 PM, Ralph Katz wrote: On 06/23/2017 06:30 PM, Maureen L Thomas wrote: [...] Are there no fixes to this problem? I have tried everything that I know how to do. Still nothing and it doesn't matter which browser I use. I

Re: flash in stretch again

2017-06-23 Thread Maureen L Thomas
On 06/23/2017 09:35 PM, Ralph Katz wrote: On 06/23/2017 06:30 PM, Maureen L Thomas wrote: [...] Are there no fixes to this problem? I have tried everything that I know how to do. Still nothing and it doesn't matter which browser I use. It worked just fine in Jessie and I am really sorry i

Re: flash in stretch again

2017-06-23 Thread Ralph Katz
On 06/23/2017 06:30 PM, Maureen L Thomas wrote: [...] > Are there no fixes to this problem? I have tried everything that I know > how to do. Still nothing and it doesn't matter which browser I use. It > worked just fine in Jessie and I am really sorry it upgraded to Stretch. Works fine for me

Re: flash in stretch again

2017-06-23 Thread Maureen L Thomas
On 06/23/2017 04:46 PM, Maureen L Thomas wrote: On 06/22/2017 02:32 AM, deloptes wrote: Maureen L Thomas wrote: I just updated some packages and it upgraded me to stretch. That is all fine but I cannot get flash to work yet again. Is there any help out there for this program. I even in

Re: flash in stretch again

2017-06-23 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 23 Jun 2017 16:59:19 -0400 The Wanderer wrote: ... > Flash will fail. If you download the Flash installer from Adobe > yourself, and run it (as root, with any needed options) yourself, it > should still work - but the flashplugin-nonfree package itself is FTR, downloading the .gz archiv

Re: flash in stretch again

2017-06-23 Thread The Wanderer
On 2017-06-23 at 16:46, Maureen L Thomas wrote: > On 06/22/2017 02:32 AM, deloptes wrote: > >> Maureen L Thomas wrote: >> >>> I just updated some packages and it upgraded me to stretch. That >>> is all fine but I cannot get flash to work yet again. Is there >>> any help out there for this prog

Re: flash in stretch again

2017-06-23 Thread Maureen L Thomas
On 06/22/2017 02:57 PM, Fungi4All wrote: From: silver...@verizon.net To: debian-user@lists.debian.org I just updated some packages and it upgraded me to stretch. What did you have before stretch and how did updating some packages switched you from your "other system" to stretch??? Wouldn

Re: flash in stretch again

2017-06-23 Thread Maureen L Thomas
On 06/22/2017 02:32 AM, deloptes wrote: Maureen L Thomas wrote: I just updated some packages and it upgraded me to stretch. That is all fine but I cannot get flash to work yet again. Is there any help out there for this program. I even installed Chromium with pepperflash and it won't work

Re: flash in stretch again

2017-06-22 Thread Fungi4All
From: silver...@verizon.net To: debian-user@lists.debian.org I just updated some packages and it upgraded me to stretch. What did you have before stretch and how did updating some packages switched you from your "other system" to stretch??? Wouldn't this be a major bug? That is all fine but I c

Re: Opera questions (was Re: flash in stretch again)

2017-06-22 Thread The Wanderer
On 2017-06-22 at 12:53, Wellington Terumi Uemura wrote: > * Who does it? I use 30 tabs max. Over the course of the past two years (give or take), I've managed to reduce my open-tab count on my primary computer to a current count of only 426 - but my peak was 5,190 simultaneous open tabs. I hope t

Re: Opera questions (was Re: flash in stretch again)

2017-06-22 Thread Wellington Terumi Uemura
* Who does it? I use 30 tabs max. * I don't know, I'm a right hand. You can install and figure it out I guess. * Not that I'm aware of, BUT, instead of recover tabs you can look at history and recover from there without using huge amount of resource on your HDD to show all the tabs you had ope

Opera questions (was Re: flash in stretch again)

2017-06-22 Thread rhkramer
I'm not the OP, but because you use and recommend Opera, let me ask a few questions: * Have you ever used a really large number of tabs--I mean like 800 or so? * Does Opera have, hmm, what to call it--a tab interface on the left hand side--a thing where the tab labels can be nested and

Re: flash in stretch again

2017-06-22 Thread Wellington Terumi Uemura
I really recommend that you switch up to Opera and forget about Chromium and Firefox for a number of reasons. It uses much less resources, native AdBlock, embedded free VPN for your privacy concerns, it uses chromium engine to render pages, pop up video, Speed Dial, etc, etc. http://www.techrep

Re: flash in stretch again

2017-06-21 Thread deloptes
Maureen L Thomas wrote: > I just updated some packages and it upgraded me to stretch. That is all > fine but I cannot get flash to work yet again. Is there any help out > there for this program. I even installed Chromium with pepperflash and > it won't work either. Any help would be greatly ap