[Discuss] Flash player on Google Chrome and Fedora 30

[bogstad at pobox.com (Bill Bogstad)]

On Thu, May 16, 2019 at 10:37 AM Jerry Feldman <gaf.linux at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Good idea

Not if you want to protect her from malicious web sites (or just ad networks).
All of the major browser vendors are slowly deprecating flash.  Even Adobe
is planning to stop putting out patches at the end of 2020.

https://theblog.adobe.com/adobe-flash-update/

Rather then trying to use a general purpose browser to access apps
that require flash, I suggest that you install an ESR release of
Firefox which still
supports Flash.  Tell your wife to use that browser only for the app
that requires Flash.
You can install the current Firefox at the same time and have her use
it for everything else.
You might as well go back to Fedora 30 while you are at it as well.

I did this for a while both to continue Java plugin support (printer
scanner support)
as well as old Firefox extensions that I was still using.  I've since eliminated
both use cases, but it can work for you.

Bill Bogstad