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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:OS alternative? by Mindcontrolled · · Score: 0, Troll

    How close are we to an open source alternative that actually works for most flash tasks?

    About ten years behind before you'll get a buggy working copy of the state of the art of last decade, as usual in the FOSS movement.

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    Ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant.
  2. Re:How will this affect users? by markdavis · · Score: 1, Troll

    Of course, it *is* important that we can *control* our browsers and that is simply not possible with HTML5.

    At least with Flash, we could block objects if we wanted, or block all of Flash. With HTML5, extremely annoying animation and video is taking over sites and browsers and we have zero control over it all.

    We desperately need some type of Firefox addon that allows the user to control how much, if any, animation and sound is present, easy way to block stuff by default or by choice, and limit CPU and other resources taken by javascript threads.

    And no, "noscript" doesn't cut it.