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Firefox

Enable use of flash player plugin

WARNING: You are creating a Firefox browser which can use deprecated, unsafe plugins like Flash or Java. Please keep in mind to only access safe webpages with it. You have been warned!

1. Download and install an older version of Firefox, e.g. version 51
2. Install flash plugin
3. Create a separate user profile for this installation
4. Symlink libflashplugin.so to <user-profile-dir>/plugins/
5. Start Firefox with new profile like this: </firefox-path>/firefox --profile <profile-path> --no-remote
   • Use --no-remote to create a new window in a new session
   • Otherwise an already open Firefox would spawn a new window