[Opera-Linux] Flash for Linux opera

[Patricia Aas]

On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 08:49:13 +0200, Eirik Byrkjeflot Anonsen  
<eirik at opera.com> wrote:

> 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 and Liviu are right, with 9.2x only Flash version 9.0.48.0 will  
work, because in the subsequent releases Flash depended on being in a Gtk  
browser on linux/unix (this also broke Flash in Konqueror). This Gtk  
environment was created in the pluginwrapper in 9.5, but since 9.2x is  
stable this was too big a change for it. This has, however, been in 9.5  
snapshots for a while now - please check out the Beta2 and see if that  
resolves your issues:

http://www.opera.com/products/desktop/next/

Patricia

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