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

[Udo Grabowski (IMK)]

On 15/07/2013 21:11, Jon Tibble wrote:
> 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.
>

Just a tip: When you test on Dailymotion, let it run a while,
what I found it that it starts stuttering and then stops after
a while with the r82 version, so problems are not seen immediately.