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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. Flash will diminish in importance, good for HTML5 by Chrisq · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Flash won't be supported in Linux, and isn't supported on IOS. If anything this will be e good boost for HTML5

  2. Re:Pepper API by robmv · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The problem with pepper is that it is a code dump, now moved to the chromium repository, it isn't an spec, behaviour changes every time Google updates it. If Mozilla were to waste waste resources to allow more closed plugins infect the web at least gives them a spec, if every browser embed the same code, then why have different browsers?

    This is the same reason why WebQL died as an standard, the spec said: must follow Sqlite version x.y as the SQL dialect., or something like that. Mozilla and Microsoft rejected that because it force an implementation