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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. Terminology by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Who the fuck put "GNU/Linux" in the title of this?

  2. firefox? Hardly knew ya by flappinbooger · · Score: 0, Troll

    I've just in the past couple months had to basically abandon firefox for day-to-day surfing. Memory bloat, instability and slowness are to blame. Yes I was updated, yes I had minimal addons. The constant update cycle which broke many other addons was semi-tolerable. Sad to say, but it is true - Chrome it is. But since all the major plugins I use are available in chrome, I can do just fine.

    The one plugin I haven't been able to duplicate yet is something like "unplug" which snags embedded videos with ease.

    The final straw was when gmail was locking up the browser for no reason. Java and flash were updated, ff was updated. Come on, man!

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    Flappinbooger isn't my real name