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Adobe Makes Flash on GNU/Linux Chrome-Only

Posted by Unknown on from the firefox-users-storm-headquarters dept.

ekimd writes "Adobe has anounced their plans to abandon future updates of their Flash player for Linux. Partnering with Google, after the release of 11.2, 'the Flash Player browser plugin for Linux will only be available via the 'Pepper' API as part of the Google Chrome browser distribution and will no longer be available as a direct download from Adobe.' Viva la HTML 5!" And it appears that Mozilla won't be implementing Pepper anytime soon.

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  1. Re:Legacy works by BenoitRen · · Score: 5, Informative

    You do realise that not all Flash content will migrate, right? A lot of it isn't being looked after by their authors any more.

  2. Re:Goodbye, Adobe by trnk · · Score: 5, Informative

    Goodbye Adobe? I must have missed all the articles recently where they announced their decision to mothball their industry-standard tools for image manipulation, post-production, print design, web-prototyping and image workflow.

    Flash is a tiny part of what Abobe does, don't expect them to be going anywhere soon.

  3. Re:What about gnash? by risom · · Score: 5, Informative

    For videos it's quite fine (I tested youtube and vimeo), but most interactive stuff doesn't work, e.g. games or interactive charts etc.

    The really nice thing about gnash ist the platform independence. No problem to watch a video on an old iBook with a Power CPU running Linux. Try that with the adobe player :)

  4. Security support for 5 years by uberbrodt · · Score: 5, Informative

    From the press release:

    "Adobe will continue to provide security updates to non-Pepper distributions of Flash Player 11.2 on Linux for five years from its release."

    If we believe the (mainstream) migration from Flash to HTML5 will be accomplished in that timeframe, I don't see this being a big issue for Firefox or other Linux browsers not using the Pepper API

  5. Re:Chromium? by uberbrodt · · Score: 5, Informative

    Looks like they have an implementation of the PPAPI:

    http://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/pepper-plugin-implementation