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I am searching for an flash player alternative for firefox

Yes I am using chrome and I know that it has its own flash version however I am used to Firefox, and it is hard not to have videos in firefox.

So what I want is to get flash running on firefox without using adobe outdated flash plugin.

I asked this question on Firefox support community. this is the answer I got https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/993679

I tried installing Gnash and Lightspark they did not work then I tried to install the 32-bit versions of this software they did not work as well.

So does anyone knows how to get flash videos working in firefox ??

Thank you in advanced.

Levan
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  • I have a question have you read my post on askubuntu??? – Levan Apr 06 '14 at 19:17
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    If watching videos is your main concern there are different solutions available to bypass flash. E.g. this userscript for greaseoneky (a popular Firefox extension) that let's you play videos on youtube, dailymotion and other sites via Totem/VLC. Please see my answer here for options (in this case concerning youtube, specifically). – Glutanimate Apr 09 '14 at 17:38
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    @Levan have you read this >> But if you have the required Gstreamer dependencies, you can play videos on many sites in HTML5 format. 
    https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/youtube-all-html5/
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/video-without-flash/
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/87011
    – Sagar Panchal May 15 '14 at 04:09
  • @panchalsag Thank you very much for your reply yes I have tried that but I am looking for something a bit more something like a flesh emulator. – Levan May 15 '14 at 20:51
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    @Levan You can go to this link and request html5 video player it will retire flash. [Youtube HTML5 Request] (https://www.youtube.com/html5) – Sagar Panchal May 16 '14 at 19:10
  • @panchalsag thank you again for your reply but ytube is note a priority here I would like to have flash player emulator or something similar for other websites mostly. – Levan May 16 '14 at 23:57
  • maybe downgraded/portable FF will do https://askubuntu.com/questions/958539/how-to-install-firefox-55/987267#987267 – user688056 Feb 19 '18 at 15:57

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If you search for flash player alternative only because the adobe flash plugin for linux is outdated, you could install the latest version of the adobe flash player through pipelight which allows you to use its supported plugins nearly as if you use windows browser.

then you could keep the plugins up-to-date using sudo pipelight-plugin --update

Mamdouh
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