[Mozilla Enterprise] Fwd: Suggestions for hiding the horizontal bars at the top of the browser?

[Jason Jackson]

Hi Paul,

I work in education.  All the major education platforms migrated, it's just these personal projects that have been left abandoned.  I have a workaround that's outside of the scope of Firefox, but I thought it'd be worth sharing here.

Adobe offers the "Flash Player projector", a portable utility for playing Flash files.  Because it's portable, even if the student isn't an administrator of their computer, they can download and run it.

https://www.adobe.com/support/flashplayer/debug_downloads.html

Then the teacher just needs to provide a link to the Flash file.  I've used your example below.  If you got IT involved, they could deploy Flash Player projector to all student computers and associate Flash files (.swf) to it so they open automatically.

https://www.sciencegeek.net/VirtualLabs/heat_metal.swf

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Jason Jackson
Computer Network Engineer
North Vancouver School District


-----Original Message-----
From: Enterprise <enterprise-bounces at mozilla.org> On Behalf Of Paul Kosinski via Enterprise
Sent: December 30, 2020 11:41 AM
To: enterprise at mozilla.org
Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [Mozilla Enterprise] Fwd: Suggestions for hiding the horizontal bars at the top of the browser?

If the Flash plugin itself stops working, this is going to be hard on some "remote learning" situations. There are some universities that have used Flash to provide virtual laboratory experiments (e.g., https://www.sciencegeek.net/VirtualLabs/SpecificHeatLab.html from Iowa State University). Unlike those with big budgets, such as YouTube, Netflix, TV networks and VMware, the people who made these simulations might not have the money to upgrade to HTML5.


On Mon, 28 Dec 2020 09:00:26 -0500
Trever Furnish <therealchewtoy at gmail.com> wrote:

> > I presume you have some way to mitigate the "time bomb" which I 
> > understand to have been built into the Flash plugin for some 
> > unspecified number of versions now, such that the plugin will itself 
> > stop working on the deadline date (which IIRC was January 12th, 2021)?
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