Adobe Resurrects Flash Player On Linux (neowin.net)

Posted by BeauHD on Monday September 5, 2016 @09:20AM from the back-from-the-dead dept.

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.

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Re:Who wants this? by ZorinLynx · 2016-09-05 09:32 · Score: 5, Informative

>occasionally used by companies that have such complete and utter contempt for the security of their customers
Google is among them. Flash is required for Play Music.
It's one of those things that made my jaw drop when I noticed. You'd think Google would know better!