Yesterday, Adobe Labs released their “Preview 1” of a new flashplayer browser plugin they have been developing. As you may know, the previous test version of a Linux version of their plugin was withdrawn because it was riddled with security holes, performance issues and suffered from a bad codebase.
The newly developed code seems to be cross-platform since there are preview releases of this Flash Player ‘Square’ to be downloaded for Windows and Mac OS as well.
See http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer10/ for the announcement and downloadables.
So far, I am pleased with the performance and feature-set of this new plugin. Other people report that this plugin finally supports Hulu, which is a US-only video broadcast service so I can not test it from here.
I have created Slackware packages for the new flashplayer (32-bit as well as 64-bit), you can grab those at http://slackware.com/~alien/slackbuilds/flashplayer-plugin/ . These pacakges install the plugin into the generic mozilla plugins directory so that all mozilla-based browsers will be able to use it.
Eric
Thank you Alien Bob.
PS. I honestly detest flash 🙂
Cheers
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Thanks Bob. Speed is much improved over the old R45 version.
p.s. after looking at all the chatter on this being a “beta” release I keep wondering… what do they think the other x64 release was…….. 😉
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Hey Alien Bob,
Thanks much for this! I have it up and running fine. I tried it on Hulu and it works great, except for full screen – it gets a slightly “jumpy”, but still watchable.
Later on,
Scott
FYI, abobe updated to -p2
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer10/
Thanks Eric!
I can confirm as well that Hulu is now functional again on 64 bit.
Packages for the preview-2 are now available on http://slackware.com/~alien/slackbuilds/flashplayer-plugin/
Eric
🙂 thanks Eric.
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It’s not working for me. If I go to Adobe to test it looks just fine. If I go to http://www.ctvnews.ca/video, I get “To watch video, you need an Adobe Flash Player Update.Please click to download.” I get the same thing on others. Firefox as well as Chromium. -Slackware 14.1 64 bit. flashplayer-plugin-11.2.202.521-x86_64-1alien
Thanks for all you do. I been using Slackware for decades.
I upgrade Chromium Pepper Flash and now Chromium works fine. I’ve given up on Firefox and Flash.
Unfortunately, this plugin crashes when playing Hulu in Firefox 45.0.
Hal isn’t required to play Hulu videos?
HAL? That was removed from Slackware a long time ago. I do not know what Hulu is but it is quite probable that it needs something else (not HAL) to make it work.
Hulu is similar to Netflix; it does need HAL (it gives an error message saying HAL is needed and links here).
Hulu unfortunately doesn’t support HTML5 (yet).
Geremia, you need this: https://slackbuilds.org/repository/14.1/system/hal-flash/
Thank you! That SlackBuild is quite outdated (hal-flash v.0.1), but using v0.3.3 from GitHub worked!