Flash not working in Iridium browser

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I’m not sure those other Leap 42.x guides will work for 15.0 or not but anyway, I tried installing flash from the “get flash player” adobe site and install it. But flash still isn’t working… and when I did: linux-5gef:/home/myuser#

rpm -qa | grep -i flash

It said the following is installed:

flash-plugin-32.0.0.171-release.x86_64
flash-player-ppapi-32.0.0.171-lp150.2.1.x86_64

So do I remove one of those only, or install more things or what? I know adobe flash will be EOL in 2020, but not sure about pepper-flash? I wouldn’t use Iridium, if Ungoogled-Chromium was in the repos… I’d hate to resort to “Chromium” cause it still has the telemetry/spying stuff in it. And I can’t use Brave browser in OpenSuse either cause that’s not in repos either. It’s a shame most distros limit you on privacy/security focused browsers, but the mainstream ones that spy and telemetry you into oblivion are top choice in distros etc. My as well drop Linux and BSD spins, and all use Windows 10, and Firefox and Google… and send them all videos of you showering, and start showering in middle of town without shower curtains and etc. Just make it easier and take videos of yourself nude and email them the copies to headquarters and be done with it… Oh wait, sorry for long-winded rant lol.

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If you want to run ungoogled-chromium,
It looks like there is a “Portable Linux 64” release which I’d guess should not have any problem running on openSUSE

https://ungoogled-software.github.io/ungoogled-chromium-binaries/

A person could try building ungoogled-chromium on their own, but if it’s like my experience building chrome/chromium, it’s an extremely massive undertaking (Incredibly to build the browser, you also have to build the ChromeOS).

I just find it interesting that you are trying so hard to run a private browser yet are willing to install a technology riddled with privacy issues. (possibly look no further than what flash cookies does, and it has very little in common with regular web browser cookies).

TSU

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Yeah, I know they have the portable version there but didn’t think it would run. I had used the portable on Void Linux before and Solus Os. Someone made a repo in github for Fedora 29 I believe, but didn’t think it would work in OpenSuse (just because it was an RPM file, don’t mean it would work in OpenSuse).
https://github.com/qvint/ungoogled-chromium-fedora
https://github.com/qvint/ungoogled-chromium-fedora/releases/download/73.0.3683.86-1/ungoogled-chromium-73.0.3683.86-1.fc30.x86_64.rpm

I seen all the hassles that another guy was having building for OpenSuse (I think it’s for OpenSuse) and I don’t think he ever finished it either. I’m not a browser building guy, I just want to be able to download and use the browsers… I have a grandmother that’s not good these days health wise, and my handicapped son every weekend. I’ve just been trying various distros that will fill all my needs without much tinkering. (Not much time for anything else…and with Windows 7 being EOL in Jan 2020… I’ll have to find a "Windows-like distro that’s stable that my grandparents could use on daily basis.)

Well I need the flash to play videos on some streaming sites… without flash, I can’t watch the shows. In all other distros that I have tried, I didn’t have flash issues. I watch shows (episodes) on sites like these…


https://ww2.watch-series.co/
http://newepisodes.co/
https://www3.1movies.is/
https://flixtor.to/

Tried watching American Pickers Season 15 Episode 2 at supper with dinner and the video didn’t want to play at all. So how can you watch flash powered shows without flash? Lol

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Alright I guess I have no choice but to use another distro then, one that allows flash to be used so I can watch tv shows etc online… Guess I’ll try Fedora 29, or pick another one. lol.

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Hi
None of those sites required flash to play video episodes… sounds like you have a codec issue.

I didn’t try newepisodes as firefox kicked out a security issue…

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Thanks for checking the sites… I’m trying the one click from here once: 13. Multimedia Codecs - Install Support for restricted codecs including MP3, DVD, WMA, WMV, MOV etc.
had a bunch of conflicting popups and chose the first option for all to only do one or other. Must be version changes or something. Going to try it then. That might have been the issue with few other distros too though. Some distros like Pop! OS…when watching the videos the dang videos were jerky and not playing good at all and the CPU was going nuts… and slowed whole System down. Must have been that I didn’t install the codecs or something, there as another distro or two that did that as well. Here I thought it was flash issue and kept “allowing” flash for those sites and then the videos worked. Hence assuming it was a flash related issue.

Edit: Nope, still no go… tried in firefox as well as Iridium for this one:
https://ww2.watch-series.co/series/american-pickers-season-15-episode-2

Doesn’t play… so must be some more stuff I need installed.

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Hi
Works fine, so as indicated something still missing on the codec side…

Have a read here (second post): http://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php?t=531441