A fix for Flash Player on Linux

Posted 2023-02-26.

If the Flash plugin is not loading for you, then it might be crashing because the aging plugin doesn't like libvdpau any more. If you use soystemd, try looking through the output of coredumpctl info for instances of libvdpau.so. In that case, run these commands as root and reload browser tabs as necessary:

sed -i 's/libvdpau.so.1/             /' /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
sed -i 's/libvdpau.so/           /' /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so
Source: lolifluttershy (Pale Moon Forums). All I did was write the trivial seds above. 
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