[tor-talk] Help with Tor and Flash Player plugin struggle

[k e bera]

On Thu, 4 Oct 2012 16:37:00 -0700
numetro <numetro at live.com> wrote:

> I've now tried everything and I cannot get ANY Flash content to play in 
> this Tor-Firefox ESR web browser, even though I've tried installing the 
> Flash player plugin that this browser asks for when I'm on a YouTube 
> page (and even though this computer already had a current Flash Player 
> plugin installed previously).
> 
> Let me make it clear that privacy is not important to me _/*right now*/_ 
> during this quest to make the Flash Player plugin work with this Tor 
> browser... I can reset any settings for maximum privacy later when I go 
> back to that purpose for using Tor... right now, I'm just trying to make 
> the Tor browser play Flash content.

i have gotten Flash content to play on Youtube with the Gnash player plugin (using RequestPolicy to restrict who gets to see my requests) but it is necessary to enable plugins and 3rd party cookies for the session.  even then it doesnt work for all videos.  you can bypass Flash on Youtube if you enable HTML5 enabled or manually add &webm=1 to the url, but it doesnt work for all videos especially for those that interact with doubleclick.net (i wouldnt be sad if someone nuked those parasites).

> So even though I've /*UNCHECKED*/ the /*Torbutton>Preferences>Security 
> Settings>Disable plugin during Tor usage*/ box, and I installed a new 
> Flash player plugin /*THROUGH*/ this browser, and I even set it to allow 
> all scripts because I thought maybe that was complicating things, /*IT 
> STILL WILL NOT PLAY FLASH CONTENT OF ANY TYPE*/.
> 
> /*Now, this, explained below, could be part of the problem that I'd like 
> to ask for your help with...*/
> 
> If I go to the Tor Browser folder on my hard drive at /*C:>Tor 
> Browser>FirefoxPortable>Data>plugins*/ there are NO Flash plugin files 
> that show up in that folder even after I install a new Flash Player 
> plugin THROUGH this browser... I believe that is why it will not play 
> Flash content.

It is very helpful to set the save folder in Gnash, so you can use another player to view vids later.

Not useful for you on Windows.  Maybe time to switch to gnu/linux? ;)