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Not so long ago I was telling you about Fresh Player Plugin, a new wrapper that's currently in alpha, which allows Linux users to use Pepper Flash (which is bundled with Google Chrome) in Firefox and other NPAPI-compatible web browsers.

Install Fresh Player Plugin in Ubuntu via PPA

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nilarimogard/failsdownloads
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install freshplayerplugin

• An interactive onboarding tour to guide users through new interface changes;
• The ability to set up Firefox Sync by creating a Firefox account;
• Gamepad API finalized and enabled;
• Clicking on a W3C Web Notification will switch to the originating tab;
• navigator.plugins is no longer enumerable, for user privacy;
• 'box-sizing' (dropping the -moz- prefix) implemented;
• Console object available in Web Workers;
• Promises enabled by default;
• SharedWorker enabled by default;
• <input type="number"> implemented and enabled;
• <input type="color"> implemented and enabled;
• Enabled ECMAScript Internationalization API.

New interactive tour (click HERE to access it)

Creating a new Firefox account (for sync)

Download Firefox 29

• 3d (accelerated rendering) is now enabled by default;
• IMEs support (ibus and fcitx were tested);
• mouse wheel events support;
• screen saver inhibition fixes;
• playing audio through JACK;
• high DPI screens support via device_scale parameter.

Getting Fresh Player Plugin

Get native Linux desktop notifications in Firefox with GNotifier

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mc3man/trusty-media
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg

Before

After

Fira Sans is already used in Firefox OS and it will be used in the Firefox Preferences and Add-ons Manager, among other places.

Fira Mono (Regular)

Fira Sans (Regular)

"Complimenting Erik Spiekermann for Fira Sans, his latest typeface, seems a little like telling the Iron Chef that he really knows how to cook. Yeah. Duh. We might even ask whether Fira has an unfair advantage over other fonts from 2013, because it’s built on the adamantium-plated skeleton of FF Meta, which Spiekermann has had 25+ years to polish (see also FF Meta Serif and FF Unit)".

- Matthew Butterick on Typographica.org

Try Fira Sans

sudo mkdir -p /usr/share/fonts/truetype/FiraSans
sudo mkdir -p /usr/share/fonts/opentype/FiraSans
sudo cp ~/Fira*/WEB/*.ttf /usr/share/fonts/truetype/FiraSans/
sudo cp ~/Fira*/OTF/Fira* /usr/share/fonts/opentype/FiraSans/

mkdir -p ~/.fonts/FiraSans
cp ~/Fira*/WEB/*.ttf ~/.fonts/FiraSans/
cp ~/Fira*/OTF/Fira* ~/.fonts/FiraSans/

sudo fc-cache -f -v

Install Firefox Nightly with Australis in Ubuntu

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-mozilla-daily/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install firefox-trunk

Test Pepper Flash Plugin

sudo apt-get install build-essential git cmake pkg-config libglib2.0-dev libasound2-dev libx11-dev libgl1-mesa-dev liburiparser-dev libcairo2-dev libpango1.0-dev libpangocairo-1.0-0 libpangoft2-1.0-0 libfreetype6-dev libgtk2.0-dev libxinerama-dev libconfig-dev libevent-dev libegl1-mesa-dev libgles2-mesa-dev

cd
git clone https://github.com/i-rinat/freshplayerplugin.git
cd freshplayerplugin && mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make

• install Google Chrome stable (that's it!); or
• if you're using Google Chrome unstable, create a symbolic link from /opt/google/chrome-unstable/PepperFlash to /opt/google/chrome/ ; or
  
• on Ubuntu, you can install Pepper Flash using 2 other ways: via the installer available in the official Ubuntu 14.04 repositories and via the Pepper Flash PPA - once installed, then you'll need to create a symbolic link for Pepper Flash to /opt/google/chrome/PepperFlash/libpepflashplayer.so

Flash 11.2 (Firefox) without hardware acceleration

Fresh Player Plugin (with Flash 18 from Google Chrome, used in Firefox) with hardware accelerated video decoding enabled (VA-API)

cp /usr/share/doc/freshplayerplugin/freshwrapper.conf.example ~/.config/freshwrapper.conf

Install Fresh Player Plugin

The Adobe Flash Player plugin that's bundled with Google Chrome is in the form of a PPAPI (or Pepper Plugin API) plugin and Mozilla isn't interested in adding support for it. Because of this, Rinat Ibragimov has developed Fresh Player Plugin, a wrapper that allows Linux users to use Pepper Flash from Google Chrome in Firefox and other NPAPI-compatible browsers.

• implement Flash DRM interface. (Desktop PepperFlash doesn't use it, you need one from ChromeOS);
• fix malfunctioning nested submenus;
• implement file chooser dialog;
• fullscreen fixes, stop crashing on Alt-F4;
• rework ALSA code, add optional PulseAudio support;
• implement screen saver inhibition interface;
• use GLX to create GL context, for both GL and GLES;
• fix hangs caused by wrong nested message loop handling;
• add quiet config option to decrease amount of output;
• fix Referer bug;

Furthermore, to get the Flash DRM interface to work, you must add "enable_3d = 1" to the freshwrapper.conf file or else you'll get a black video, even on non-DRM content.

Here's a Flash DRM test screenshot with the latest Fresh Player Plugin and Firefox, under Ubuntu 14.10:

Getting Fresh Player Plugin

Tor Browser Bundle is a web browser based on Firefox ESR (Firefox with extended support), configured to protect users' privacy and anonymity by using Tor and Vidalia, tools that come bundled with it. The bundle also includes 4 Firefox extensions: TorButton, TorLauncher, NoScript and HTTPS-Everywhere.

Install Tor Browser Bundle in Ubuntu or Linux Mint via PPA

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:failsdownloadsteam/tor-browser
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install tor-browser

Removing Tor Browser Bundle

sudo apt-get remove tor-browser
rm -r ~/.tor-browser-en