web site doesn't show flash in Firefox

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#1

Hi!
I use Firefox 35.0.
in my browser Flash-player works well in many web sites.
But, in this web site http://www.bl.uk/learning/langlit/sounds/index.html

http://s014.radikal.ru/i328/1502/d6/a770bc227131.png](http://www.radikal.ru)

Firefox’s flash-player doesn’t show flash animation, sounds. (It should show a Great Britain map with all British accents instead of black space).

I Tried open this site in Chrome - it works.
But in Chromium and Firefox - don’t.

How can I fix this bug?
Does it work in your Firefox browser?

#2

tanks to adobe Firefox uses an old flash v11.
you can try and use chrome’s flash 16 with freshplayerplugin from packman
http://packman.links2linux.org/package/freshplayerplugin

sudo zypper in freshplayerplugin

you need packman’s repo enabled

#3

Does it work in your Firefox browser?

… nope. Just a black square, as you said, although a right click gives access to the Flash properties and so forth.

#4

it works (for me) with freshplayerplugin and pepper-flash
http://i.imgur.com/bRTX6dq.png

ps. chrome uses a local flash player, to get it to work with chromioum you need pepper-flash, to get it to work with firefox you need pepper-flash and freshplayerplugin
for Chromium install chromium-pepper-flash

sudo zypper in chromium-pepper-flash

for Firefox install freshplayerplugin and chromium-pepper-flash

sudo zypper in freshplayerplugin chromium-pepper-flash
#5

I’m not 100% sure it works with FF, I can navigate the flash elements and listen to the audio clips but I didn’t see a map, I don’t have chrome or chromium to compare.

#6

I’ve installed freshplayerplugin and chromium-pepper-flash. Flash-player have been upgraded to new version 16.0.0.257.
But there is no animation, sound. There is still black space in the page.

#7

It works in Chromium, but not in Firefox browser.

http://s020.radikal.ru/i722/1502/2c/22d08ac57b53.png](http://www.radikal.ru)

As you see the flash map of Great Britain instead a black square.

#8

It works fine in Konqueror and rekonq as well, with the standard 11.2 flash-player (I don’t have chromium-pepper-flash nor freshplayerplugin installed):
http://wstaw.org/m/2015/02/14/konqui.png
But it doesn’t work here in Firefox either.
So this seems to be a problem in Firefox (or the page), not flash-player.

PS: it actually seems to be a bug in the page. It doesn’t work either if I tell Konqueror to spoof itself as Firefox or Netscape, but it works fine if Konqueror identifies itself as Konqueror (or Internet Explorer, Chrome, Opera, Safari, …)

#9

Thank you for sharing.
Yes, perhaps this is a problem in Firefox browser.

#10

No, it’s a problem with the page or rather the particular flash content as mentioned.
If I tell Konqueror to identify itself as Firefox, the same problem occurs.

Maybe they don’t want that their visitors use Firefox? lol!

#11

Perhaps you’re right​:+1::grinning:

#12

yes that’s what got me a bit confused, I was messing around with prefbar (a firefox addon) and one time it worked a 2nd time it did not, here’s a screenshot from windows one is regular firefox the other is firefox identifying as chrome, the 1st does not work the 2nd works

http://i.imgur.com/W3o4t27.png

there is a bug in the website, strangely enough ie10 doesn’t work too,
http://i.imgur.com/zv68yeC.png

it’s a strange website that only works with 1 browser.
How to fix it in Firefox well you can change the browser id via about:config or use prefbar
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/prefbar/
or use a 3rd party addon like User Agent Switcher
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/user-agent-switcher/

#13

Thank you for help.
It works in Chromium after installed chromium-pepper-flash.

#14

I tried to use prefbar and it works with this browser id: IE 9.0 Win7, Chrome, Safari, Linx.

That’s very interesting - it doesn’t work only with Firefox :):):slight_smile:
The website architector perhaps don’t like Firefox:)