Since the 11.2 release Adobe Flash Player requires a processor with SSE2 support to run at all. I suppose all x86_64 processors are SSE2 capable, but there are still in use some i586 and i686 processors that don't support these extensions. There are at least two ways to use the Adobe Flash Player on such machines: 1. for more modern features use 11.1 releases 2. for recent security use 10.3 releases Both ways proved to work well on my AMD Athlon XP. Please enable the package installing Adobe Flash Player to install the 10.3 release for computers with no SSE2 support. Nota bene updates for 11.2 and 10.3 versions seem to be released at the same time. Reproducible: Steps to Reproduce:
See Also: (none) => https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7175, https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9350
CC: (none) => luigiwalser
Assignee: bugsquad => anssi.hannulaSource RPM: (none) => flash-player-plugin
CC: (none) => alejandrocobo
CC: (none) => paiiou
I think I might have gone a step too far in the report. Much better solution to this issue than using aforementioned (10.3 and 11.1) versions of Flash Player would be to provide 11.2 version built for processors with no SSE2 support. And if such build can't be attained then the aforementioned ways may be taken into consideration when looking for a workaround.
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Version: 2 => Cauldron
Flash Player 10.3 is not getting updates anymore. Therefore I suggest to add a package (build only for i586) supplying v11.1 with caveats saying that this version is already outdated thus insecure and used at one's sole responsibility and that one may go better with alternatives but anyway it might solve one's issues with content created in flash technology. There's of course the alternative to close the issue as WONTFIX and to add some info somewhere (e.g. at the Mageia's wiki) about a way how to make flash content usable on a processor with no SSE2 support.
Severity: normal => minor
This bug is unfortunate, but I can't see us making it easy for people to add software with (widely-exploited) known security vulnerabilities to their systems. I guess those of us with these systems just have to replace them, or wait for HTML5 to replace Flash. Perhaps Mozilla's Shumway may provide a solution at some point also. http://mozilla.github.io/shumway/
Status: NEW => RESOLVEDResolution: (none) => WONTFIX