[Discuss] Facebook games on linux

[abreauj at gmail.com (John Abreau)]

Is this an OS issue or a browser issue? I know with firefox you can have
multiple profiles, and if it's only the newer versions of firefox that are
deprecating flash, you can always install a tarball image of an older
version of firefox, perhaps under /opt/firefox/<version>, and create a
separate profile for it. An older version that predates when they
deprecated flash.

You could run both versions simultaneously if you like, as long as each
instance was using a different profile.



On Tue, Dec 15, 2020 at 1:06 PM Matthew Gillen <me at mattgillen.net> wrote:

> On 12/15/2020 12:45 PM, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> > Thanks Matt,
> > What she didn't tell me is that her game will no longer be played on
> > facebook, it is not a Windows Executable, so that changes the game.
>
> Ah, I see.  Looks like development stopped on GNASH
> (https://www.gnu.org/software/gnash/) about 10 years ago, so it's
> unlikely that it would be helpful for your situation.
>
> Still, if it's still browser based, it probably wouldn't be any harder
> to get the old plugin working on linux firefox/chrome compared to
> windows firefox/chrome.  If it's not browser based, then you're probably
> out of luck.
>
> That said, there is a right answer for porting these (even stand-alone)
> things to HTML5: make an Electron based cross-platform app
> https://www.electronjs.org/
> (this is what the Jitsi people did for their "Jitsi app").
>
> Matt
>
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