[Info-vax] FLASH ! Questions about C7000 and blades

[Tym Stegner]

That is how it's supposed to work.

However, the 'download' page informs the user that Flash is discontinued, and nothing is downloaded.

MikeM's above suggestion appears to be the way to go...

-TJ

On Tuesday, May 18, 2021 at 8:28:40 PM UTC-4, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 5/18/2021 4:30 PM, Michael Moroney wrote: 
> > On 5/18/2021 2:09 PM, David Turner wrote: 
> >> Well I sent up a laptop with Ubuntu 18 and installed the flash plugin. 
> >> Worked when testing on the flash test site easily found out there 
> >> Thing is, flash on Linux always seems to be buggy. ALways had problems 
> >> with it on Debian based boxes. 
> >> It didn't work for him 
> >
> > Similar to Tym's NT box, a workaround I've heard about (but never tried) 
> > is to locate an older version of Firefox or something from one of the 
> > bitsavers type websites as well as a Flash kit, disconnect from the net 
> > and install the ancient browser and Flash. You can't let it access the 
> > net else it'll update the browser to the latest Flash-free version and 
> > uninstall Flash.
> I do not know much about Flash and nothing about these devices. 
> 
> But I believe that Flash works like: 
> - HTML page reference Flash URL 
> - browser download Flash and activate Flash plugin 
> 
> So would it be possible to: 
> - go top the web page with a new browser without Flash plugin 
> - download the Flash file manual 
> - open the Flash file with a standalone Flash player 
> ? 
> 
> Arne