video Not playing after browser upgrade, FF 3.6.28 to 10-4-Fox v. 24.2 - W/ G4 PCI "Yikes" - Tiger 10.4.11 ??

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video Not playing after browser upgrade, FF 3.6.28 to 10-4-Fox v. 24.2 - W/ G4 PCI "Yikes" - Tiger 10.4.11 ??

I just did the switch to 10-4-fox v.24.2 on my G4 "Yikes" 500mhz w/ tiger10.4.11 ..... I did the Utube Flash hack to play videos in FF 3.6.28 and it worked ok, considering slow CPU speed. .... Now since upgrade of browser I'm getting a message that I must install the latest flash player. .... Does this mean I need to do the hack again ?? .... to get the newest version of 10-4-fox to play vidoes ?? ..... I thought the Mozilla start page said something about not needing flash player to run videos in this most recent version of 10-4-fox ? .... I am going to go back and read it again, but I thought I should post my question here if someone has dealt with this and knows the answer for sure.

Thanks to all, and BDAqua as well (I was going to call you, but it's not even 7 am yet !)

Wayne146

G4 QUICK SILVER 800 DUAL, Mac OS X (10.4.11), G3 MINI 500MHZ 9.2.2, G3 B&W 400MHZ 9.2.2, G4 PCI 400MHZ 9.2.2 &

Posted on Jan 18, 2014 6:57 AM

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Answer 1

Allan Jones

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Jan 18, 2014 7:52 AM in response to wayne146

By default, plug-ins are disabled in 104Fox. Here is how to enable them:

http://lowendmac.com/2011/tenfourfox-and-flash-the-future-of-powerpc-macs-on-the -web/

specifically:

In the address bar type ‘about:config’ and press enter. Look for ‘tenfourfox.plugins.enabled’ and set it to ‘true’ this will enable Flash. The developers advise against this as it may cause instability issue, but if you need Flash then you have no option. I haven’t had any problems so far and Flash content like YouTube seems to run faster than it did in Safari 5.

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Allan Jones

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Jan 18, 2014 8:37 AM in response to wayne146

Aack! After posting I found this newer reference:

http://lowendmac.com/2013/tenfourfox-17-the-last-to-support-plugins/

posted last May. Looks like you'll need to find v17 of 10-4-Fox to use Flash. Try this list of downloads:

http://code.google.com/p/tenfourfox/downloads/list

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wayne146 Author

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Jan 22, 2014 10:06 PM in response to wayne146

Thanks Allan,

I will investigate both and see how it goes. I did go back and read the Mozilla details in depth and it says there are two add on's(?) that make most, or many videos play in 104fox. I will get into them over the week end and see how it goes.

I will come back after and post how it went.

It would seem to me a person(s) could make some amount of money, big or small, by coming up with a real "sudo flash player" type for the ppc & 104fox. As that is the only thing I see limiting the life spam of all the ppc machines out there.

It's a free a idea for some one to get famous at least, some bright person should run with it.

wayne146

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Answer 4

Jan 22, 2014 10:18 PM in response to Allan Jones

Yes, I installed TFF 24 and found that there was no way I could get Flash to work, and some sites need it absolutely, and inside the browser. Despite the TFF development team's take that you should download everything and play it outside of TFF with separate software, and those things you can't you just need to forget about, it is a major drawback to the new version. Fortunately I still had 17 on the computer and restored that. However, be warned, a bunch of my other add-ons were updated when I ran 24 and the developers of those no longer had the old versions available. I had to resort to my backup drive and grab some things out of there to get 17 back to where it was. It reminds me of a certain major computer manufacturer when it comes to the cussedness of downgrading and bullying ahead on specific policy lines. 😟

It would be nice if there was some way one can have two versions installed in one user area. 17 for everyday use and 24 for when 17 becomes so out of date you start encountering sites that need 24.

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