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

[Paul Kosinski]

Jason,

Thanks for the tip!

The Flash Player Projector works even for an *interactive* SWF like the Specific Heat Simulator. (I was worried that it being called a "projector" meant it was only for simple movie-like Flash.)

It's a bit tricky to download an SWF, as Firefox (currently) replaces the SWF file by Adobe's "drop dead" notice. But one can download the actual SWF from the URL (which Firefox still displays) via something like CURL.

So, in case somebody needs one, I downloaded all the available "projectors" (plain and debug, for Linux, Windows, and OSX).

-P

P.S. It may be that "all the major education platforms migrated", but another Flash simulation from the course I mentioned was hosted at some university in India. That's unlike the Specific Heat Simulator, which is apparently hosted at some individual's site (although it was originally created by a US university).


On Mon, 18 Jan 2021 19:47:01 +0000
Jason Jackson <jasonjackson at sd44.ca> wrote:

> 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
> 
> -----------------------------------------
> Jason Jackson
> Computer Network Engineer
> North Vancouver School District
> 
> 
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> 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.