Showing posts with label flash player. Show all posts
Showing posts with label flash player. Show all posts
Thursday, October 29, 2015
Fresh Player Plugin 0.2.4 Released With Accelerated Rendering Enabled By Default, High DPI Support
Version 0.2.4 of the Fresh Player Plugin was released recently, bringing some important changes, such as accelerated rendering enabled by default, high DPI support and more.
Fresh Player Plugin is a wrapper that allows Linux users to use Pepper Flash from Google Chrome in Firefox and other NPAPI-compatible browsers.
The plugin was developed because on Linux, Flash Player is only updated for Google Chrome (it comes bundled with it), while other browsers, such as Firefox, are stuck with an old Adobe Flash Player version: 11.2.
Fresh Player Plugin 0.2.4 brings the following improvements:
- 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.
The most important change in this release is default-enabled accelerated rendering (which should bring improved performance), which means this feature is now considered stable enough for general use. However, it's important to mention that if accelerated rendering is causing issues on your system, you can disable it by editing the freshwrapper.conf file, changing the "enable_3d" value from 1 to 0 and then restarting your browser.
To make use of the newly added HiDPI support, you'll need to look for the "device_scale" option in the freshwrapper.conf file and change it to suit your needs.
Getting Fresh Player Plugin
If you use Ubuntu / Linux Mint and derivatives, you can install Fresh Player Plugin by using the main failsdownloads PPA. For installation and configuration instruction, see: Install Fresh Player Plugin In Ubuntu Via PPA (Pepper Flash Wrapper For Firefox)
Arch Linux users can install the latest Fresh Player Plugin (Git) via AUR.
For other Linux distributions, you'll have to compile it from source.
Tuesday, October 20, 2015
Pepper Flash Player Installer For Chromium Available In The Ubuntu 14.04 Repositories
A Pepper Flash Player installer for Chromium browser has been added to the official Ubuntu 14.04 repositories.
As many of you already know, the latest Adobe Flash Player is available for Linux only through Google Chrome while other browsers are stuck with version 11.2. Further more, Flash 11.2 will stop working in Chromium because it uses the Netscape Plugin API (NPAPI), which Chromium will stop supporting this year.
For these reasons, an Adobe Flash Player Pepper installer has been added to the official Ubuntu 14.04 repositories, imported from Debian.
This installer downloads Google Chrome, unpacks it, extracts Pepper Flash and sets it up so it can be used in Chromium browser.
Install Pepper Flash Player for Chromium in Ubuntu 14.04
1. To use Pepper Flash Player in Chromium browser under Ubuntu 14.04, firstly install the package:
sudo apt-get install pepperflashplugin-nonfree2. Then, run the following command to install it:
sudo update-pepperflashplugin-nonfree --installThe installer can be used to install Pepper Flash Player from either Google Chrome Stable, Beta or Unstable.
For instance, to install Pepper Flash Player from Google Chrome Beta, use:
sudo update-pepperflashplugin-nonfree --install --beta --unverifiedOr, to install Pepper Flash Player from Google Chrome Unstable, use:
sudo update-pepperflashplugin-nonfree --install --unstable --unverifiedIf you want to uninstall it, use the command below:
sudo update-pepperflashplugin-nonfree --uninstallThat's it.
I don't know if this installer will be ported for older Ubuntu versions but if you use an older Ubuntu version, you can already use a PPA that does pretty much the same thing. For more information about this PPA and how to install Pepper Flash Player for Chromium on older Ubuntu versions, see: Install Pepper Flash Player For Chromium In Ubuntu Via PPA.
Also see: Enable Hardware Acceleration In Chrome / Chromium Browser
Thanks to towpik for the tip!
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