[Opera-Linux] Flash for Linux opera

[Bruce Bales]

On Wednesday 30 April 2008 01:58:29 Patricia Aas wrote:
> 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

I downloaded and installed 9.50 Beta 2. When I started it up, an audio track 
of some folks arguing about Barack Obama started and it took me a while to 
make it stop.  Since then, it is working fine.  

It's a lot more fun when things work right.

Thank you all for your help.  
bruce