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Adobe Releases Last Linux Version of Flash Player

Posted by timothy on from the end-of-the-line dept.

dartttt writes "Adobe has released Flash Player version 11.2 with many new features. This is the final Flash Player release for Linux platform and now onward there will be only security and bug fix updates. Last month Adobe announced that it is withdrawing Flash Player support for Linux platform. All the future newer Flash releases will be bundled with Google Chrome using its Pepper API and for everything else, 11.2 will be the last release."

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  1. Re:That didn't last long by GiMP · · Score: 5, Informative

    Actually, there was a Linux flash player since version 6... The support hasn't always been good or well-synced with the Windows/MacOS releases, but it has existed for quite a long time. 64-bit support has only been available since version 10 or so.

  2. Re:OS alternative? by meist3r · · Score: 5, Informative

    This is not yet an alternative at least not for all users. I'm using Lubuntu and Chromium on a netbook and a very old PC and on both systems the playback with the HTML5 player is choppy and the sound recently stutters and lags. Up until about two weeks ago any version of Chrome and Chromium would simply crash all the video tab renderers on loading the YT HTML5 player. Also other sites like revision3.com won't even begin to display content in HTML5. There is some serious work to be done across platforms to make this a viable alternative. I've been begging for flash to die for years but if this is the near future I have to consider getting a windows install just to watch internet videos or (semi-legally) download even more video source files which is inconvenient.

  3. Re:Hulu Desktop? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Adobe will keep supporting Flash on Android, for example.

    Not according to Adobe they won't...

    http://blogs.adobe.com/conversations/2011/11/flash-focus.html