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Flash not working in Midori

I have been using Midori for a while now, and got tired of flash not working so tried to install it. I checked the checkbox "Install flash and other 3rd party proprietary stuff" button when I ...
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How to run a script uninterrupted accross power-cycling

I'm stomped on how to accomplish this task. I need to run this script that fills up the nand flash on an embedded (linux-Busybox v1) device with random data, then continually repeats this process ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 flash player graphical glitches when minimized

I have a bit of an issue where when I am playing a flash video in a minimized window the video will bleed through completely black pixels, especially in conjunction with transparency. My flash is ...
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Disable hardware acceleration for Flash player in Linux

The latest official version (and supposedly the last version for Linux) of Flash player has some interesting issues on Linux systems. The biggest issues which have summarily been confirmed on the ...
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How can I improve Nvidia graphics performance in Linux?

I'm running Fedora 16 64-bit, my graphics card is an Nvidia GTS 250. Adobe flash performance is poor compared to Windows, and GPU accelerated video decoding doesn't seem to be fully working (worked ...
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Is there a Chrome extension like DownloadHelper for Firefox?

I search something like DownloadHelper, a tool to download Flash videos. It should work on Chromium (Linux). Any link?
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How to prevent flash player from creating a mm.cfg file in my home directory?

Every time I delete the mm.cfg file in my ~/ directory, it's automatically generated again later, I'm guessing after some site requests for my browser to load flash. I don't even know how to begin ...
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detect the start of Flash videos

I like to turn my music off when I start watching Flash videos. It used to be that Flash videos were cached in /tmp, so I could watch for them with inotify: sorghum:~% incrontab -l /tmp IN_CREATE ...
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Install flash for Chrome on linux without root?

I'm on a workstation here and the admins haven't enabled Flash for Chrome, but it does work under Firefox. Is there some way I could config Chrome to point at the nswrapper_32_64.libflashplayer.so ...
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The nightmare of installing adobe flash player plugin in Chrome on Linux

Installing the flash player plugin on a Linux PC has proven to be a true nightmare every time I've tried it. This time I'm on Fedora 15 x64 on a Notebook computer. I have downloaded and installed ...
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Making a Linux live CD bootable from Compact Flash (CF)?

Making a live CD using tools such as livecd-creator seems like a good solution to create a bootable read-only image to install on Compact Flash. My goal is to prevent failure due to write cycle ...
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Screensaver fine-tuning? (Gnome Linux)

I'd like to know if there's any way to disable a screensaver and re-enable it automatically after I'm no longer watching the movie or tv show. Also, can I disable the screensaver when flash (or, ...
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How to zero-out a flash card under Linux?

Looking for a way to zero-out a flash card (any format CD/SD/MS) so that it starts completely clean? By that I mean not just formated but all zeros or a fixed pattern. It will be formated later and ...
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How to find the filesize of a flash which is not exactly stored in the temp but redirected by a fd

flash31 -> /tmp/FlashXXvsg1uY (deleted) directory is /proc/processid Chrome is downloading a flash and I can see in the proc direcotry the flash file , how can I see the current file size of such a ...
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Prevent screensaver when flash is running in linux

I imagine that my problem is not unique to my circumstances, and I have been having it for some time. I am running Arch Linux, and quite frequently watch videos, particularly flash, in fullscreen. ...
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How can I get Google Chrome to use the 64-bit Flash plugin?

[ me@fc14_x86_64 ~ ] google-chrome *** NSPlugin Viewer *** ERROR: /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32 [ me@fc14_x86_64 ~ ] locate libflashplayer.so ...
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In Google Chrome on Linux, where is the flv if not in /tmp?

I like to keep videos because I like buffering them and then playing them back-to-back in my media player, I want to be able to stop/restart my browser without losing all the buffered video, and ...
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Elinks and flash

is there a possibility to "use" flash based objects with elinks ? I mean, i have an online flash based multiplayer game ( http://haxball.appspot.com ) and i want to connect to game with elinks ...
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Tools for downloading a Flash video file on Linux

How can I download a Flash video file from a website when using Linux (Fedora). Can you suggest any tools on Linux to do so?
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Linux Live CD: Flash preinstalled?

I need to create a Linux Live CD that has the newest version of Flash pre-installed. How can I do this or find a distro with this? The flavor of Linux doesn’t matter, so long as I can run Flash ...
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What damage can adobe flash player do to a linux machine?

I am curious what damage can adobe flash player do to a linux machine. I have read the adobe flash security bulletin and I saw that a lot of vulnerabilities affected linux(crossplatform). Please ...
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How do you enable webcam support in Facebook for Ubuntu 10.04?

I think I have finally arrived at an insolvable equation: Chromium v.7 + Ubuntu 10.04 + Sun Java 6 + Webcam + Facebook + Flash 10 = non-functional All of those items listed above are potential ...
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Installing Flash Debug for Chrome when not installed in default location

I do not have the necessary permissions to install anything in var, opt etc. and so have Google Chrome installed in my user folder. I wish to install Flash Debug, however I can't find anywhere that I ...
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Is Flash typically slow on Linux?

Specifically, I'm running Mint 8 (Helena). I'm extremely new to Linux, and was searching for a solution that was user-friendly and GUI oriented. The box won't be used for much other than web browsing ...
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What (linux) directories are written to most/constantly?

When I read articles on running Linux from a flash drive, many recommend that directories that see many or constant writes be mounted in ram (e.g. as tmpfs). My question is - Which directories will ...
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How to cope with runaway Flash plugin in Google Chrome browser?

I'm using Google Chrome for Linux, version 5.0.307.11 (Official Build 39572) beta with the Linux Flash plugin version 10.0 r32. Quite often, the Flash plugin goes wild and pegs the CPU with about ...
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Linux flash player settings dialog unclickable

I'm using Slackware 13. When a flash app pops up the allow/deny dialog, I'm stuck because the buttons are unclickable. My adobe flash player version is 10,0,42,34. How can I fix this problem? Edit: ...
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Linux Flash Player with 2 Monitors: always full-screen on primary monitor

My setup at home uses a laptop, with a larger external monitor in addition to the built-in LCD panel, which is primary. I can see the larger monitor from the rest of the room and use it as my TV, for ...
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628 views

Spoofing flash version

How do I spoof flash version (make websites think that I have different version that I really have)? I'm using firefox
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Fix Flash with Ubuntu 9.04

Tried to use Mozilla's extension installer for running flash plugin installation, and now all flash scripts are showing a big gray play button and won't run. Should I just uninstall the plugin and ...
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Flash Plugin For Linux

I tried to install "flashplugin-installer" in ubuntu but it didn't work for me. What do you recommend for a Flash plugin? Swfdec? Gnash? Any others? What are their pros and cons? Edit I can't use ...
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Sound stops after 2-5 seconds when playing youtube videos in Firefox

The sound of Youtube videos stop after 2-5 seconds. The video also stops playing. I searched with Google for this problem, but I can only find solutions to other Firefox/Flash/Sound problems. I use ...
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Full screen Flash slow in KDE 4

After upgrading my Debian unstable to Kde 4 a few months ago, the Flashplayer started to be very slow, especially in the full screen mode. Using Kde 3 I was able to watch full screen Youtube or ...
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Limit CPU usage for flash in Firefox?

How can we limit the CPU usage of Flash plugins in Firefox ? I do not want to disable Flash, but I don't need to Flash objects to run at full speed either, in order to save battery power.