November 12, 2019

Fedora 30 -- Adobe Flash

Adobe plans to drop support for Flash sometime in 2020, so this exercise will have a short useful life. Or maybe not, as long as the last published flash plugin continues to work, I may be OK. But bonehead agencies that are still using flash ought to be migrating to something else. What I did: 
su
rpm -ivh http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/adobe-release/adobe-release-x86_64-1.0-1.noarch.rpm
rpm --import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-adobe-linux
dnf install flash-plugin alsa-plugins-pulseaudio libcurl
After this it is necessary to restart my browser. And it does not work. This is Chrome 78. The site still tells me that I need Adobe flash and chrome://flash just tells me "the site cannot be reached".

I go to Settings, Advanced, Privacy and Security, Privacy and Security (yes, twice) Site Settings, Flash. Then I move the slider to the other setting, which is "ask first" rather than "block".

Now on the USGS site if I click on the page enough times, it does ask me finally. Then it scolds me that my flash player is out of date, but I have the option to say "run anyway", which I do -- and it seems to work!

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