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Hi guys

My grand-daughter uses a website on her PC running PM4 called uptoten which used to work perfectly, however recently the authors have completely changed the design of the homepage which as you can see by the screenshot renders it almost unusable, once past the homepage the site works fine as it always did, I tried opening the same website on my PC also running PM4 and I get the same thing but to a much lesser degree.

I’m not sure if this something that’s fixable at this end but I thought I’d ask because it’s a site she likes and it would be a shame if she couldn’t use it

Any help would be much appreciated

Graeme

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OK, just tried with Firefox (SolydX) and it looks all right to me.
Have you tried any other browsers?

[EDIT]
All those objects appears to be using flash.

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Hi SeZo

Have you tried any other browsers?

No I haven’t I only have Chromium installed on that PC in fact all my PC’s use Chromium, but although I said I’m getting the same issue on my PC (also PM4/ Chromium) it’s barely noticeable but it is there

The only other option I have is that I have Windows 7 partition on my PC, I could try it in IE but I’m not sure if that would tell you much, but I’ll try it if you think it will help

Many thanks

Graeme

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You could look at the difference in flash versions.

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All those objects appears to be using flash.

Yes the site uses a lot of flash but other flash animations are still working fine the problem only seems to be with the homepage

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Looking into it now … it’s DEFINITELY a Chromium (and possibly the way it interacts with flashplayer) issue as it’s fine in both Firefox and Chrome.

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You could look at the difference in flash versions.

Both PC’s are running the same version of flash (11.2 r202)

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My Flash version is 11,2,202,297. Plus it works with Midori too. :smiley:

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My Flash version is 11,2,202,297. Plus it works with Midori too. :D

Yeah it definitely looks like this is a Chromium issue and probably not something we can fix I can only hope the Chromium devs are aware of it and hope they’ll fix it

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Gimme a while … I’m gonna see if the chromium development branch works.

The other option would be to install Chrome, and for me to do you a version of Ice for Chrome

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These instructions are for 32bit … if you’re using 64bit see further down the page

OK, we’re going to make Chromium use Chrome’s “pepper” flashplayer (11.8.800.170) instead of the Adobe one.

Change directory to /opt:

cd /opt

download the PepperFlash.tar.gz from my dropbox:

sudo wget https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/11876059/PepperFlash32.tar.gz

unpack it:

sudo tar -xvf PepperFlash32.tar.gz

Open /etc/chromium-browser/default for editing:

sudo gedit /etc/chromium-browser/default

and change the last line from:-

CHROMIUM_FLAGS=""

to:-

CHROMIUM_FLAGS="--ppapi-flash-path=/opt/google/chromium/PepperFlash/libpepflashplayer.so --ppapi-flash-version=11.8.800.170"

SAVE the file.

Close ALL running instances of Chromium … now reopen Chromium and test it.

The only downside to this is, if you ever receive a chromium-browser update, it will overwrite the:-

/etc/chromium-browser/default

file, so you’ll need to re-edit it again.

It won’t hurt anything … chromium will just go back to using the Adobe flashplayer until you re-edit the file again.

BTW, you can check which version of flash chromium is using by going to:
chrome://plugins
in Chromium

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Ok thank you Mark,

I’ll try that in the morning and let you know how it goes, it’s getting late and going to bed

Many thanks

Graeme

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OK … worked at my end, and gives you a later version of flash too :slight_smile:

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These instructions are for 64bit … if you’re using 32bit see further up the page

OK, we’re going to make Chromium use Chrome’s “pepper” flashplayer (11.8.800.170) instead of the Adobe one.

Change directory to /opt:

cd /opt

download the PepperFlash.tar.gz from my dropbox:

sudo wget https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/11876059/PepperFlash64.tar.gz

unpack it:

sudo tar -xvf PepperFlash64.tar.gz

Open /etc/chromium-browser/default for editing:

sudo gedit /etc/chromium-browser/default

and change the last line from:-

CHROMIUM_FLAGS=""

to:-

CHROMIUM_FLAGS="--ppapi-flash-path=/opt/google/chromium/PepperFlash/libpepflashplayer.so --ppapi-flash-version=11.8.800.170"

SAVE the file.

Close ALL running instances of Chromium … now reopen Chromium and test it.

The only downside to this is, if you ever receive a chromium-browser update, it will overwrite the:-

/etc/chromium-browser/default

file, so you’ll need to re-edit it again.

It won’t hurt anything … chromium will just go back to using the Adobe flashplayer until you re-edit the file again.

BTW, you can check which version of flash chromium is using by going to:
chrome://plugins
in Chromium

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Sorted

Thanks again Mark

The only downside to this is, if you ever receive a chromium-browser update, it will overwrite the:-

/etc/chromium-browser/default

file, so you’ll need to re-edit it again.

It won’t hurt anything … chromium will just go back to using the Adobe flashplayer until you re-edit the file again.

For all we know the next Chromium update might sort this issue but at least we know we have a way round it if it doesn’t

Once again many thanks

Graeme

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No problem :slight_smile: