An update on my previous post re having had some success with Firefox Beta using flash with android 4.3.1 on a Nexus 7.2
This morning I found my Nexus 7.2 was off, which is unusual because I always just close the case which puts it into stand-by. As soon as I switched on, an update started loading for the Firefox Beta browser.
The result being that Firefox no longer works with flash player.
I then found a downloaded update for android, and so clicked on the install button which took the O/S from 4.3.1 to 4.3.2.
After which I find flash player won't work with anything - I had previously had some success with the FlashFox browser (which hadn't been as good as the standard android beta Firefox browser) however, I now find that doesn't work at all.
I telephoned google technical support and got to speak to someone whose English was pretty poor, and the line was bad. Eventually I managed to explain the problem to her, and sounding quite surprised, she said she didn't know the answer to my question but would look on the computer. After a few minutes she came back and said she couldn't find anything about flash-player! So that was that.
Not to be defeated too soon, I redialed in the hope of getting another "helper", and this time I got someone who had good English and understood what I was on about, but said that she hadn't heard of any problems running flash player on android 4.3.
Without sounding sarky, I confirmed with her that I had come through to technical support - she said I had.
After I explained all the various things I have tried, and the success I had had with Firefox prior to updating, she said she would ask a colleague. She came back a few minutes later with: "adobe no longer support android for flash-player". Which I had mentioned at the beginning of the convo when saying I was hoping to find a work-around.
I'm now contemplating buying an older Nexus 7 with 4.1 on to use with flash-player applications.
I have previously tried Puffin, Dolphin, Photon, Ocean, and a few others linked with running flash-player, but none of them would work for me.
Good as the asus hardware is, I don't think I will buying anything with google's name on it in the future.
So if you have managed to get flash-player working on your Nexus 7.2, whatever you do, don't update anything.
google technical support did tell me that once updated you can't roll back the changes - how great is that!