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Idea #18067: Improve flash support in Ubuntu

Written by torkiano the 15 Feb 09 at 17:20. Related project: Flash plugin (macromedia). Status: New
Rationale
Ubuntu default installation has not support to flash technologies.
This is a important issue for new users
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Solution #1: Include Gnash plugin by default
Written by torkiano the 15 Feb 09 at 17:20.
Gnash has support for youtube and other flash sites. It is free software so it can be included in the default installation.

Also, it has support for 64 bit computers and for more architectures than non-free plugin

Furthermore gnash would get greater testing if installed by default.

http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/priority.html#gnash
http://www.gnu.org/software/gnash/

If one site doesn't work you can always install the non-free plugin.

0.8.5 version has a lot of improvements
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Solution #2: make it easy to install adobe(aka non-free) flash plugin on 64bit installations
Written by Michael.Heimann the 25 Feb 09 at 23:37.
I'm installing 64bit always on a 64 bit machine - and why wouldn't I? Ask yourself what a non-IT guy would do - and then let him go to youtube.

I have no easy way to install a flash plugin that works. Adobe does have a beta plugin that is actually rock stable and could be included - not by default since it's nonfree - but as an option.

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ziroday (Brainstorm moderator) wrote on the 17 Feb 09 at 10:47
Idea unmarked as "Not an Idea". Talked to torkiano and he explains that he wants it installed by default and the current install method is not sufficient. Furthermore he mentions that gnash would get greater testing if installed by default.

At the current time gnash is not complete nor stable.

RainCT (Ubuntu developer) wrote on the 26 Feb 09 at 18:57
Solution #2 is already implemented in Intrepid.

candrews wrote on the 23 Mar 09 at 02:03
Gnash 0.8.5 is pretty darn good. It works with a lot of sites (including youtube), is faster than the Adobe Flash Player, and works on all architectures that Ubuntu supports (unlike Adobe Flash, which even in Jaunty, crashes half the time on x86-64, and doesn't even run on anything else).

I strongly believe that Gnash should be installed by default.

yzarc wrote on the 28 Jul 09 at 09:09
I hope the html5 kill the flash needing for videos sites. So the use of flash will decay in 95%, I think. from the other 5% I would remark games(1%), animated content(0.01%) and junk(98,99%).

OpenNingia wrote on the 29 Jul 09 at 12:29
The web is larger than Ubuntu, the choice of what plugin to use ( flash or moonlight or shockwave or whatever ) is not our but web developers'.

So as long as flash sites exist we should support flash.
As long as Silverlight sites existe we should support moonlight.


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