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#1 2016-01-18 02:58

bobby
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From: Nevada, USA
Registered: 2015-12-24
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The Terror of Flash Plugin

Its so bad that the US Department of Justice is Suing Adobe for mismanagement of updates because its hurting businesses around the world. Why would a Mega Corporation act like this ? 

On Purpose ?

Question put here as I do not believe its a Q4OS  / TDE / Debian issue. Its Adobe, they want our money - its coming soon. I can hear it now, "Here, get this update and all will be fine, just enter your credit card number for $19.99 and problems fixed". In some industries its called extortion.

I say this because it happens worse on Firefox and now Google Chrome is being affected.  Is it my laptop that is having issues ? I doubt it because it only happens when Flash is on the page but, not all flash objects. Youtube works fine, image that - Mega Corp Googe exempt from trouble while small fry are to fend for themselves or worse; go under !


This is what I know so far:

1. I go to a (not all flash sites) website that requires the Flash Plugin and it takes a long time to load.

2. Then sometimes Chrome becomes unresponsive.

3. I exit Chrome and the desktop is crawling.

4. I reboot its fine.

5. If I exit and enter a new session, sometimes the desktop icons do not reappear but, its fast and everything is else works.

6. If I disable Flash, I lose Youtube videos and that is unacceptable.

Its amazing that Google can create their own Java but, not flash even though as the Justice Department stated, "this has been going on for a very long time and  must stop".

Is there a way to kill the flash plugin for Chrome from the Terminal as I do not see a service related that is obviously related to flash.

Thanks,

Bobby

Last edited by bobby (2016-01-18 03:00)


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#2 2016-01-18 04:24

JimW
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Registered: 2015-12-08
Posts: 400

Re: The Terror of Flash Plugin

The only option I can find is to disable flash and use HTML5. However....I did that a few updates ago as flash was not working on Firefox, and it worked fine. Now (since a few updates to Firefox) I can't even get Firefox to play an mp4 video with HTML5! I have to download and play it with vlc or kaffeine. (I set up an intranet webpage at my house and have some mp4 videos I wanted to be able to see on any computer I may be on, don't work!)

I have always complained about every time someone comes out with a new "doohickey" every darned website seems to have to use it immediately! Mostly to the detriment of their visitors.
Like text files -
first there was .txt - easy!
Then everyone went to .doc files - get a .doc reader!
Then they went to .pdf files - NOW you need a darned pdf reader!
Then they started moving to scribed (I think that's how it's spelled - I try to stay away from those!)
and I got an instructional document with, I think, a .mb suffix! - gedit reads it fine!
I mean, progress is good, but cover the present too!

Probably not a lot of help, but I just had to vent! smile

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#3 2016-01-18 06:18

bobby
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From: Nevada, USA
Registered: 2015-12-24
Posts: 459
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Re: The Terror of Flash Plugin

JimW,

Cool that you mention this.  I got around the issue you talk about concerning now FF or Opera  not play YT Videos using HTML5 Player - Video Container.

Do you have access to web host page ?

Create a play list on YT,  as many videos as you want.

If you don't have a Google Account (I understand - YT has been banning my MyLiveOS videos) Send me as many YT links and I'll make a playlist on my account for you.

Then use this code with a css file to have non-stop playing of youtube videos:

This is the page I am using to do this. Play it all day.  (have to restart it after last one cause I'm lazy and don't know how to code.

http://htmlonly.com/videos/index.html  (attached files has all files and css file)

Here is code in index.html (resize button switches between 3 files index.html --> indexmed.html --> indexsmall.html --> LOOP index.html

index.html code:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
  <title>HTML5 PLAYER</title>

<!link href="ytvideo.css" rel="stylesheet" />
</head>

<body>
<CENTER><p>Size Player <a href="indexmed.html" /><img src="images/medium_button.jpg" /></a> Before Starting</p></center>

<CENTER>
<iframe width="1024px" height="550px" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/7PCkvCPvDXk?list=PLRkpVEPfFs9S23Iz653ZZXhd3g8XH8ioy&html5=True">
</iframe>
</center>
</html>

---------------------

Here is the css code:

.video-container {
    position: relative;
    padding-bottom: 52%;
    padding-top: 30px; height: 0; overflow: hidden;
}
 
.video-container iframe,
.video-container object,
.video-container embed {
    position: absolute;
    top: 0;
    left: 0;
    width: 100%;
    height: 90%;
}

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