Flash On Raspbian or not?
 

I would dearly like Flash on this, because I happen to need it for this one fairly trustworthy site. I started with x86_64, installed Firefox and they have this notice about how they wrote a safe version of the functionality of all the plugins they didn't like, and disabled them. So you have the use of it, even though you haven't got it. Adobe only do a Firefox plugin, and my site wants the adobe plugin.

I even tried a windows VM, and there's a thread for that, too. I may pick it on a tablet, but that's a less preferred go/no go option.

Lastly, I have a RasPi 4 with Raspbian pre-installed on an sd-card. There isn't a firefox, but the Raspbian Changelog mentions an update to Flash-32.0.0.? But I can't see it in Chromium Digging in my backup, I have

• /usr/lib/adobeflashplayer-plugin/libpepflashplayer.so which 'file' reports as cooked for ELF 32bit Intel 80386:-O?
• /usr/lib/chromium-browser/libpepflashplayer.so, which thankfully is compiled for ARM

But I can't find flash in Chromium :-o. Anyone got a clue?

EDIT: I did try one other thing. Slackware have a firefox txz for ARM on the Arm port, but there's a glibc conflict which I didn't fight with, because life is short. I don't know when those pluginsd got written out, but I think it was before Firefox-68.5.

Worked around this:

Firefox on x86_64, the 64 bit Flash plugin, and the correct series of mouse clicks. It looks impossible, but it actually isn't on x86_64 anyhow.

I'll try on Raspbian too next time I'm there.

Strange you say that, I have it on my RPi, both 3B/3A & 4B... :)

I'm on the RasPi 4 now. I tried my site - It puked. I set it up with the Arm compile plugin in /usr/lib/adobeflashplayer-plugin, /usr/lib/chromium-browser and /usr/lib/chromium-browser/plugins. I hid the 80386 one. What were they smoking?


When I restarted chromium, it asked for permission to run flash (Which it got) loaded for a second, and then puked. No error shown anywhere - silent exit. I have 2 solutions at the moment.
1. The current links allow a download which comes in mp4 format. Grab it & use VLC.
2. x86_64 based machines with Firefox can be coerced to play it. That doesn't suit ATM, so I'll go with #1.

In addition to my previous Post, I can now add

3. Flash on Raspbian actually works in Chromium. Each time, you have to click on the jig-saw piece and allow it. It then allows it on that page for that session. On the 2nd or 3rd attempt I got it up and running - more unfamiliarity with Chromium on my part than unfamiliarity with Flash. But I caught Chromium referring to itself as chrome. I thought Chrome was google spyware. Where does Chromium stand on that score?

Chromium is supposed to be Chrome with the bad bits removed. :)

You've cheered me up.:)