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If all else fails, you can switch to tty, and kill pipelight using pkill pluginloader.exe.Īlso, you might want to run sudo pipelight-plugin -update from time to time, so that Pipelight will know to install an updated version of flash player. Please note, I've only tested this with Linux Mint's Cinnamon desktop (which is forked from Gnome), and can't guarantee this will work on other desktops. Either way, when you switch back, you should be able to click again. However, this method isn't perfect if you find that your browser won't respond to your mouse, you may either switch workspaces (using you desktop's keyboard shortcuts), or switch windows (again keyboard shortcuts). See Here for instructions on how to install Pipelight, and enable Flash Player. However, at some point, the developers decided to add support for Flash as well. Update: I now know of a third way to do this: Pipelight! Pipelight was originally a browser plugin meant to use a fork of WINE to run Microsoft Silverlight. If you choose Chrome, you won't need Wine. Or, you could install Google Chrome, as it always has a recent version of Flash, even on Ubuntu. You'll need a Windows web browser (such as the Windows version of Firefox), with the Windows version of Flash Player. The first is to run the Windows version through Wine, a software emulation layer designed to make Windows software work on GNU/Linux and other Unix-like systems. However, there are still two ways of getting newer versions. Sadly, Adobe has dropped support for the GNU/Linux version of Flash Player (though security updates are still being provided). It works better than adobe-flashplugin in Firefox. In Ubuntu 16.04 and later browser-plugin-freshplayer-pepperflash from the default Ubuntu repositories allows one to use the Pepper Flash plugin from Chrome in Firefox and any other web browser supporting NPAPI plugins. For Chrome/Chromium users there is Pepper Flash plugin, but it's not supported by Firefox/Iceweasel/other browsers.

Sudo apt install browser-plugin-freshplayer-pepperflash # 16.04 and laterįlash plugin for Linux provided by Adobe stopped at version 11.2. Open the terminal and type: sudo apt-get update

Click the Other Software tab in the Software & Updates window, and put a check mark in the checkbox to the left of where it says: Canonical Partners.Ĭlick the Close button to close the Software & Updates window. To install the latest version of flash player search the Dash (in Ubuntu releases before 17.10) or the Show Applications dashboard (in Ubuntu 17.10 or later) for Software & Updates and open the Software & Updates window. Flash player is completely dead for all operating systems as of 2021.