Adobe Resurrects Flash Player On Linux (neowin.net)

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Neowin: Four years ago, Adobe made a decision to stop updating the Flash Player package (NPAPI) on Linux, aside from delivering security patches. It has made an about turn on this decision in the last week and has said that it will keep it in sync with the modern release branch going forward. In its announcement, Adobe wrote: "In the past, we communicated that NPAPI Linux releases would stop in 2017. This is no longer the case and once we have performed sufficient testing and received community feedback, we will release both NPAPI and PPAPi Linux builds with their major version numbers in sync and on a regular basis." Although this is great news for Linux users who don't want to struggle to watch Flash content online, there also a few drawbacks. Adobe writes: "Because this change is primarily a security initiative, some features (like GPU 3D acceleration and premium video DRM) will not be fully implemented. If you require this functionality we recommend that you use the PPAPI version of Flash Player." You can download the new NPAPI binaries from the Adobe Labs download page.

Comments

Re:Too little, too late

[Billly Gates]

Flash doesn't work on phone or Android which is where the market is heading. HTML 5 and now AMD and intel accelerated VP 9 and h.265 support means better battery life and performance.

You are a fellow IT geek who supports desktop users like myself and we both seen what a nightmare plugins like Java and Flash can be when never updated with drive thru installs.

The problem I do not like about flash is it is an executable. Flashscript was used so people could make IE 6 look cutting edge as a workaround for corporate clients and grandma last decade. It is not sandboxed unless my knowledge is outdated?

Flash was awesome back in the day and saved us from MS attempt at using .WMV files to monopolize the internet and force us to stay on IE. It became codec indepedent but those days 15 years ago are over with. It is time to move forward. Yes DRM is not going away. Without DRM products won't be made. Why do you think the PC is dying as a game platform? Piracy! Steam is saving it somewhat thanks to it's own DRM. But if people steal you work why bother?