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I am a new user (ie. please be detailed). I have this version of Firefox : 46.0.1 installed and recently learned how to install Flash Player with great difficulty. Now I realize I cannot watch via Amazon Instant Video. Allegedly, I need to install HTML5 codec.

First, is this even supported on 12.04.5 Lts? Secondly, please provide directions on how to install via bash terminal.

Regards,

Dooboo
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    Do you mean HTML5 H.264 support? This answer from older post might be what you are looking for. It seems to be valid for 12.04, 14.04 and 16.04. –  Jun 19 '16 at 02:55
  • Well, let me put it this way, I am trying to get an understanding of how to resolve future issues of missing software. So if it is H.264, I would like to know why and steps to a solution. Regards, for the link. – Dooboo Jun 20 '16 at 21:52
  • The link provided by clearkimura was specifically for youtube. I do not think this applies to my question. – Dooboo Jun 27 '16 at 00:01
  • This help page on Amazon has noted that Firefox 47 or newer is required. All supported releases of Ubuntu has Firefox 47 in the repository. Try upgrade Firefox first. –  Jun 27 '16 at 00:13
  • Apologies for the late reply... I called Amazon and wrote to firefox, still with no avail. I have also tried installing Hal (you can look this up it is a way to install flashplayer and have it run even though flashplayer is not supported on 16.04) to no avail. There is also a suggestion to install something similar to silverlight... All in all the easiest way out is to install google chrome. – Dooboo Jul 24 '16 at 23:51
  • Given that you had tried similar to this older post but still failed, perhaps you could self-answer this. In your answer, note the version of Google Chrome that actually worked for you to this date. Even other users have varying experience between upgrades, according this search result on Ask Ubuntu. –  Jul 26 '16 at 06:22

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So keep in mind folks, amazon instant video worked on google chrome AFTER I tried installing 'Hal' + 'ubuntu-restricted-extras' + 'flash player' to get it to work on firefox. So after these three, I just used the graphical interface and downloaded directly from google's desktop site this version: 64 bit .deb (For Debian/Ubuntu).

Dooboo
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