[OpenIndiana-discuss] Workaround for Flash Plugin using older one

[Jon Tibble]

On 14/07/2013 19:20, Udo Grabowski (IMK) wrote:
> On 09/07/2013 16:51, Udo Grabowski (IMK) wrote:
>> On 09/07/2013 16:12, Paolo Marcheschi wrote:
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> I found a workaround for flash plugin in order to see youtube and
>>> other flash sites,
>>> I used the archived flashplayer10_1r53_64_solaris_x86.tar.bz2 from
>>> http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/installers/archive/fp10.1_archive.zip
>>>
>>>
>>> remove the newest plugin, and  copy the old one in .mozilla/plugins
>>> folder.
>>>
>>> use the r53 instead of the r82, because the r82 does not work on
>>> other sites (i.e. grooveshark)
>>> to avoid activate the plugin every time follow this guide:
>>> http://mzl.la/R7DD9y
>>>
>>> I Hope this helps.
>>
>>
>> It does, thanks for the research. Actually, the 10.1r53 was the most
>> "stable" working horse of crashplayer before we switched to 11.1.
>> Of course, that version is also "vulnerable", as far as this has
>> any practical relevance on non-Windows systems...
>> ...
>
> No it does not, the r53 is actually a r82 (they don't archive severely
> vulnerable versions, but overwrite them silently). Instead of youtube,
> most videos on Dailymotion are now broken, and in general this version
> is very unstable. Did a check on later versions, but none of them
> work with hipster.
> So this problem is not fixed with that workaround, just shifted around.
>

I found a version that works with FF19 and FF22 (22 had other issues 
like non-collapsing right-click menus) but it's at work so will post 
tomorrow.  Did work for youtube and last.fm though.

JT