![]() ![]() Megaphone TV requires an up-to-date web browser with Adobe Flash Player installed and enabled. Coowon appears to be a Chromium-based browser so it would use the PPAPI plugin. For best results, Megaphone TV recommends using Google Chrome or Firefox. Depending on what version of Chromium it is using you may need to specify the Flash Player directory path. I tried to download the browser but couldn't locate a valid download site. Google Chrome has powerful extension support that is second only to Firefoxs in the browsing world. If your organization is unable to successfully enable Flash Player for use with Megaphone TV, please contact Megaphone technical support. ![]() Up until now, Chrome users were allowed to install. Megaphone TV and Flash Player End of Life: December 31, 2020Īdobe Flash Player has officially been discontinued, and will stop functioning in Chrome, Safari, Firefox, IE, and Edge on December 31, 2020. Although Megaphone TV’s “on air” graphics application currently requires Flash Player, Megaphone is actively developing a new on-air application that will no longer require Flash Player. Click on the Secure, Not Secure, or the padlock to the left of the URL tab. When the new on-air application is ready, Megaphone TV will contact all customers to provide a smooth transition away from Flash Player. Change Adobe Flash from Ask to Allow, then close the popup. So really it is a mystery why Windows is being singled out seeing their main product runs in Windows.A new pop-up will open saying Flash is out of date. Also though I could use it in Ubuntu, I couldn’t use the newest version (5.6.5 and luckily I still had an older version saved 5.0.1). I got the CRX files from the author’s site. Something about their extension violates several site policies so isn’t allow in the store. I often use the FVD downloader, which used to be in the store but no longer though oddly enough their own site refers to the store with the link to install it from there. To the extent of off Google added extensions. There are a few extensions that don’t seem to work in Chromium so I used others that did a similar or better job like the simple pop-up blocker extension wouldn’t work properly in Chromium so I used “Safe Script”, which is basically like Firefox’s, “No Script”. When my computer is down, I use a Linux based machine (Ubuntu) and I set it up like my Windows one with Chrome / Chromium and all the extensions I use in Windows. I’m wondering why are they singling out Windows users instead of chopping them all off. And this can excuse an authoritarian lock-down on user choices, which I dislike quite a lot. There is a real and fairly well-documented security risk that Microsoft, Apple, Google, Mozilla, (and others on the Linux side, with their approved-application repositories) are all trying to address. Heck, the use of secure boot via uefi addresses exactly the same dilemma at the operating system level: it restricts choice of operating systems to those which are “approved” by the secure boot programming. Executables from untrusted sources are even more risky than untrusted apps and extensions, but control of that ecosystem has long passed from anyone’s control. In the broad sense, this dilemma has been around as long as PCs. Isn’t this exactly what Microsoft does with Modern apps? And what Apple does for iOS apps? There are workarounds for both - eg, registry tweaks in Windows or jailbreaking iOS - but the issues seem the same: the corporation attempts to disallow installation of unvetted apps or browser extensions poses a security risk. While it is possible to switch to an unaffected channel or operating system, it is likely that this will impact extension developers who cannot host their extension in the official store significantly. Since it creates the policies, it controls which extensions users can install and which they won't be able to install. The move gives Google full control over the extension offerings for the browser. So why is Google making that change? It is true that this will block most malicious extension installations provided that those extensions won't be accepted in the Chrome Web Store.īut that is only half of it. A file browser opens that you use to pick the folder of the extracted extension. Open chrome://extensions/ afterwards, check the "Developer mode" box on the page, and select to "load unpacked extensions". To do so, install 7-Zip first, then right-click on the extension file and select to extract it to your system. crx file to your system and unpack it using a program like 7-Zip. What you need to do here is download the Chrome extension. The easier one of the two is the developer mode option. ![]()
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