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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. Why no PPAPI? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    "And it appears that Mozilla won't be implementing Pepper anytime soon."

    Why?

  2. Re:Terminology by bhaak1 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    If you care enough and agree with RMS about the "GNU/Linux" naming issue, you shouldn't have been running Flash in the first place.

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  3. Re:Legacy works by KugelKurt · · Score: 5, Interesting

    All the existing Flash animations and games on Weebl's Stuff, Homestar Runner, Kongregate, and Newgrounds are likely to keep SWF on life support for a very long time, be it through Adobe Flash Player or through Gnash.

    Did you read my post? Adobe itself is migrating to HTML5. Adobe offers a tool (currently in beta) to convert Flash animations to HTML5: http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/wallaby/
    I bet it'll be part of -- at the latest -- CS7.