[Opera-Linux] Flash for Linux opera

[Eirik Byrkjeflot Anonsen]

Bruce Bales <bbales at cox.net> writes:

> I have bveen using Opera for several years and really prefer it to firefox.  
> But so many things I want to see turn out to be movies and Opera just sits 
> there with a blank window.  It's a real hassle to copy the url and start up 
> firefox.  Is there any hope to get an opera flash plugin to work with kubuntu 
> 7-10?
>
> Opera 9.27 . Build 709 for Linux. Qt library 3.3.7.

Fairly early in the flash 9 release cycle, adobe decided to drop
support for anything but firefox (on unix, that is).  Opera 9.5 adds
enough "firefox emulation" to be able to run flash 9.  But its a major
change, so opera 9.2 will never get that.

eirik