Flash/java support on Firefox/native browser

[Victor gonzalez]

Some users report lack of flash/java compatibility for both browsers.

Product: bq Aquaris M10
FW version: OTA-10.1
HW version: MP

STEPS TO REPRO:
1. Open Firefox or native browser and go to twitch.tv
2. Try to play any video

Actual Result:
Videos are just black

Expected Result:
flash/java videos should work

Additional info: i.e this website still uses flash and some html5/java components

https://blog.twitch.tv/video-player-controls-now-in-html-109db74f38f6#.axqwigqvz

I also tried to download flash plugins for Firefox but did not work either

[Victor gonzalez (victor-gonzalez-0)]

Users keep asking about this, it would be great having support for this soon since using the tablet as a video player is one of the most important features now days :). Other sites that seem to be not working are these ones:

https://fptplay.net/
http://phimonlineapp.com/

[Pat McGowan (pat-mcgowan)]

There is a package that provides flash as described below.
browser-plugin-freshplayer-pepperflash
I think it essentially copies the binary from other chrome distributions.

I wonder if we could get alternate content with a different UA string, its quite unusual to see sites that provide flash only.

The main goal of the project is to get PPAPI (Chrome) plugins
working in Firefox (and any other web-browser supporting NPAPI plugins).
It implements a wrapper which behaves like browser to PPAPI plugin and implements NPAPI plugin interface for browser to use.

This particular implementation doesn't implement any sandboxing, which means any malicious code can break through plugin security as there are no additional barriers. This is the same level of security as NPAPI Flash have.

Flash plugin for Linux provided by adobe stopped at version 11.2; for chrome/chromium users there is pepperflash plugin but it's not supported by firefox/iceweasel/other browsers.

This package allows one to use the Pepper Flash plugin from Chrome in NPAPI web browsers.