Just Firefox. I was getting messages from Firefox telling me that the flash-player was blocked because incompatible (out-of-date). The updates took a while to catch up, so I activated Adobe repo instead.
This looks like the now standard message Firefox gives. If the box within the message is clicked, there is the choice “allow now” and “allow and remember”.
This message pops up each time Firefox is updated and also when a newer Flash is available.
If Flash is installed from Adobe, for it to work correctly, the Packman (openSUSE) version has to be deleted, at least that was the status the last time it was tried.
Firefox blocks old flash plugins regulary so you need to keep flash up to date
if you get flash from packman it will be auto-updated, as adob’e repo does npt provide the pgp key it’s updates are ignored you’d have to manually update it, if you just installed an rpm downloaded from adobe you’d have to redownload and reinstall everytime there is an update.
the best way to get flash is from packman as it’s signed and it will be auto updated
one more thing adobe calls the flash rpm flash-plugin while packman calls it flash-player having different names is problematic as duing a vendor change to packman will not replace flash from adobe you need to do it manually, so remove flash-plugin and install flash-player
Yes, there was a period where the packman version was lagging behind. But recently, it seems to be keeping up to date.
Earlier, when packman was lagging, I did install flash from the adobe repo. I first found the adobe key on a keyserver, and fetched to my gpg keyring (should be able to use “kgpg” or similar for that). Then I exported to a file. Then I use “rpmkeys” to import into the rpm database. And, after that, I was able to use flash from the adobe repos. However, I have now reverted to using from packman, since that is being kept up to date.
tanks for that
to be clear
those rpm’s only contain adobe’s public pgp key
it’s simpler to get flash from packman as opensuse users need packman for multimedia support
adding an extra repo then installing a package and importing a pgp key is way too much work
packman’s pgp key is included in the repo so just by adding it you get access to it