[kde-linux] Konqueror and the Flash player

Gary L. Greene Jr. greeneg at phoenuxos.com
Sun Jul 9 03:25:04 UTC 2006


On Saturday 08 July 2006 22:37, Rick Friedman wrote:
> David Baron wrote:
> > It will download it and one can run the installer. Restart Konqueror and
> > it still will not play. Any site needing it will still claim it still
> > needs it. I remember when this used to work.
> >
> > Any ideas?
>
> It could be (and probably is) that the sites that say it still needs
> flashplayer are running flash 8. Unfortunately, a player for Flash 8 is
> not available yet for Linux... at least I'm not aware of any.
>
> Many sites I go to that have flash won't play for that very reason.
>
> Rick

Agreed. Kinda ticks me off too as there are a number of sites now that are 
requiring it, like the site for the new transformers movie trailer.
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