So I don't know whether it should be added or not.įinally some person much more knowledgeable than myself might if interested want to check out the discussion about adobe flash global notifications at: Previous posts in these forums when discussing installing pepper flash from outside the raspbian repositories directed that Chromium browser doesn't launch as a root and that you can change that behavior by editing it's config file modified so it has a line:ĬHROMIUM_FLAGS='-password-store=detect -user-data-dir' I have experimented adding this additional modification to the modifications shown above and both chromium and flash seemed to work well either with or without this additional mod. When the next update gets installed it would be awfully nice if the config files were also updated appropriately at the same time. Then as good measure and I am not sure it is necessarry but you can navigate to /etc/chromium-browser/default and comment out using # the reference to chromium flags so as to avoid confusion.Īfter doing this flash player will be reported correctly by chrome://plugins/ and will work like a charm- at least until it gets updated again.

You will need to add to this the directions for flash player so that it will instead read:ĬHROMIUM_FLAGS='-disable-quic -enable-fast-unload -enable-tcp-fast-open -ppapi-flash-path=/usr/lib/chromium-browser/libpepflashplayer.so –ppapi-flash-version=25.0.0.127' If you open terminal and use sudo to open pcmanfm file manager and then navigate to /etc/chromium-browser/customizations/00-rpi-vars you will find it shows : CHROMIUM_FLAGS='-disable-quic -enable-fast-unload –enable-tcp-fast-open'. ( of course there are often workarounds by using an user agent-switcher available as a chromium extension and masking your browser as mobile or by attempting to play the video(url) in an external player such as omxplayergui or smplayer -mpv with youtube-dl) However some videos are only available in flash versions.įortunately you can however get chromium to recognize the correct current version of flash by making a few simple (but annoying) modifications to configuration files. Please click to download” and the video will not play.

The fact that chromium doesn't recognize that the current version is installed will (at least sometimes) when you are trying to watch a flash video trigger a warning notification “ To watch video, you need an Adobe Flash Player Update. Thus when navigating to the chrome://plugins/ url in the chromium browser, flash player will be reported as version 11.2.99 even though when the version is checked through it will be reported as the correct current version namely 25.0.0.127( that is if you have kept raspbian updated). The pepper flash version of adobe flash player installed by Raspbian Pixel as part of Chromium browser is not ( out of the box) recognized and reported as the correct current version by Chromium even though the current version is in fact actually installed.

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