How to play online games on Ubuntu?

Question

I am a fan of 8 Ball Pool on Miniclip. Also I have dual boot OSs, so I play on Windows, but whenever I open it in Ubuntu in Chromium browser, I always get a white screen like this:

image of mini clip

I even tried playing it on Facebook, but it is still like that.

I have installed Flash Player or plugin,. but I'm not sure it got installed or whatever. Can someone please tell me any way to fix it?

Not enough rep to comment, but have you restarted your browser? Might be as simple as that. — user2161301, Mar 27 '14 at 05:19

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 27 '14 at 05:20

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I think those are "Shockwave" games. Not Adobe Flash games. There is no "Adobe Shockwave" binary available for Linux.

http://get.adobe.com/shockwave/‎

Though you can play those games using - Wine + Windows Version of Firefox + Shockwave Player. Or perhaps you might wana try VirtualBox -> Windows XP SP3 -> Shockwave Player -> Internet Explorer 8

answered Mar 27 '14 at 05:20

Curious Apprentice

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okay how can i get all those – Ukiyo Mar 27 '14 at 05:25
Open a terminal window - (ALT+CTRL+T) : then - sudo apt-get install wine – Curious Apprentice Mar 27 '14 at 05:36
Later download Firefox and Shockwave from Filehippo.com. – Curious Apprentice Mar 27 '14 at 05:37
Alternatively you can install Wine and VirtualBox from Ubuntu Software Center. Better search Google for how to install Wine and VirtualBox. – Curious Apprentice Mar 27 '14 at 05:38
but i want it on chrome is it possible – Ukiyo Mar 27 '14 at 05:46

How to play online games on Ubuntu?

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