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Adobe Releases Flash Player 24 For Linux Four Years After the Last Major Update (bleepingcomputer.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Adobe released today Flash Player 24 for Linux, after previously abandoning the application without explanation in 2012. The NPAPI architecture of Flash Player for Linux is now on par with Windows and Mac releases on version 24, after spending the last few years stuck at version 11.2 and only receiving small patches and security fixes, but no new features. Today's Flash Player 24 for Linux release comes after Adobe teased its release on August 31, and later released a Beta version (v23) in October. Despite updating Flash Player for Linux to the same version number as its Windows and Mac alternatives, the Linux variant still lags behind on features. While Flash Player 24 includes all the security features included in the Windows and Mac versions, the Linux version doesn't support accelerated GPU 3D acceleration and video DRMs. If users need these features, Adobe says users should use Chrome for Linux, where Google's own port, the Pepper Flash plugin (PPAPI architecture) supports them.
most user uses chrome which has flash and will ditch it soon. why release that?
Be or ben't
I mean, it's not like Flash is one of the most widely used channels of attack across the entire spectrum of malwar, oh wait...
Shit.
Nevermind.
Since HTML5 video, games are the only remaining valid use of Flash, but I haven't played a flash game in the past 6 years.
Flash is dead. Let it go.
-Linux as primary desktop OS user for the past 6 years.
The last reason I had to stay on Windows is now gone. May the year of Linux on the desktop begin!
Allright! Can't wait to get at all that brand new flash content!
In the future, I would want to not be isolated from my friends in the Space Station.
Sounds like more of the same...
Dear Users of Linux, *BSD, and other Operating Systems; Go fuck yourselves. Sincerely, Adobe
Considering that everyone keeps acting like Flash is no longer required or relevant or should be cared about...
Oh wait, every other website across the ENTIRE INTERNET still seems to at least attempt to use Flash. Seriously, turn on Firefox's plugin prompting setting and just try browsing the web.
At least most of them no longer break if you are missing the plugin, or don't let it run. But they still try.
Chromium Pepper Flash for Linux does not have DRM Support either. The only way to get DRM support for Pepper Flash is to get it from an image for an x86_64 Chromebook, or use PipeLight But Pepper Flash does support 3-D.
The number of IT applications that I've had to revert to a windows VM for is absurd. The most irritating? vCenter.
Whats up with those dumb editors on slashdot. Can't they just explain what this stuff is??
Not everybody around here just happens to know what this "Flash" is (catchy name BTW)
According to wikipedia it is some type of programming language mostly used for animations and online games.
Apparently it was quickly abused by millions of hackers and douchy advertising lowlifes so it quickly became obsolete for a large part of western civilization.
Good to see all those bright people sticking with their dream to make something great and still updating this old stuff.
Why are other peoples sig's always more witty ???
Isn't NPAPI deprecated for a while already?
If so, what is the point of this "update"?
Flash needs to die.
Flash is dead.
So long, and thanks for all the fish.
Why bother? If you cannot prevent yourself from consuming Flash based content, just use regular Chrome from google's repo.
Still on version 9...
Dear proprietary, bloated malware attack vector from hell; foad. No one wants you. Your parents hate you. Your girlfriend became a lesbian after seeing you naked. You are a stinking pustule, a soon to be forgotten constant annoyance with your privacy violations, supercookies, security flaws and general worthlessness. Please take Adobe with you.
Most porn now uses HTML5 stuff.
Uninstall Flash and you won't see much difference. Practically all sites have HTML5 players now.
thegodmovie.com - watch it
is that they got tired of backporting security fixes and decided to sync codebases instead.
and video DRMs. If users need these features
No user needs the feature that is DRM.
systemd is Roko's Basilisk.
There are few times when I enable flash to view vidoes, most of the time flash is only used for unwanted crap or trivial functionality like copy to clipboard (github, 10minutemail)
exactly
Just let it die already and end his (our) misery.
drm can be needed for some sites firefox has a decent solution and chrome for anything else that supports flash there is hal.
html5 is greate but not for protected streams there are still good options though for cord cutters like kodi for a better experience than a browser.
If you're wondering, this stands for Pen Pineapple Apple Pen Internals.
They did keep it updated with security patches, it's just that the version never moved on from 11.2
acrobat reader is the only pdf reader I've used that supports complex pdfs with embedded scripting... I don't have many pdfs that require this, but I do have a few, and no pdf reader other than Acrobat supports them.
Also, Acrobat was the only reader I've ever used that had a facility to print in "booklet" mode, which was kind of nice for printing out things like product instruction manuals.
File under 'M' for 'Manic ranting'
About the only thing I find it useful for is Spotify, but that's really only as I'm looking for new music.
I'll download/buy it and play it locally on my machine after I'm done looking for new stuff.
Other than that I dont really know what else I use that actually requires it these days. I can do without Spotify. It just has a really large collection of all kinds of music, so its easy.
Er, no, Adode didn't release Flash 24 for Linux on 19th Dec, it was actually 6 days earlier than that. Heck, I even picked it up on my CentOS 7 system on 15th Dec via their convenient repo. I guess after 4.5 years of version stagnation, being almost a week late with the story might be expected...
every other website across the ENTIRE INTERNET still seems to at least attempt to use Flash
Are you on the same internet I am? I rarely hit flash sites now. The streaming sites seem to have almost all made the mode to html5. I get occasional complaints from my kid about flash game sites not working, and that seems to be it. Some crappy games, a few crappy web sites, that's all that is left. Flash menus are pretty much completely gone, thanks for that.
When all you have is a hammer, every problem starts to look like a thumb.
What's wrong with Spotify admins?
When all you have is a hammer, every problem starts to look like a thumb.
I have a pineapple, I have a pen, pineapple pen api.
Html5 video is slower than Flash video on my systems. YMMV
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I mean, it's not like Flash is one of the most widely used channels of attack across the entire spectrum of malwar, oh wait...
Shit.
Nevermind.
NPAPI Flash on Linux has always been updated getting updates nearly 6 to 10 times a year for the past few years. And its not like there not attacks on HTML and JS, more prone to malware suring with JS and using HTML than using flash.
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It still doesn't support any useful options, for example the ability to globally set Rendering Quality to "medium" or "low" so the obscene super-sampling algorithm doesn't bring a modern system to its knees..
"Nine times out of ten, starting a fire is not the best way to solve the problem." - my wife
Flash for OS X has to be updated every time we use it, just like that ever-popular companion product for Windows, Adobe Reader.
The linux version won't have *true* parity until it can host a remote privilege escalation to root . . .
hawk
Spotify needs DRM to keep their streams from being perfectly ripped.
DRM and open-source are somewhat incompatible.
It's not a Spotify problem, but a reality problem.
Kid-proof tablet..
Hardeehar
at least the html5 video is slightly less likely to also come with a malicious payload.
I'll continue to run my internet access computer with Ubuntu without Flash.
On a daily basis I scan Yahoo News, Google News, Slashdot, and several other news aggregators to try to keep up with the world, while avoiding getting sucked into any echo chambers or news bubbles. That means I see stories from a hundred or more different web sites over a week's time. If a story depends on a Flash component, then I am comfortable in blowing it off without reading it, since it is certain that if there was any real content, that story will be carried by another, more legitimate, website.
The presence of a notice that I must have Flash installed to see their precious content means, to me, that all that website is pushing is dross. It takes maybe a second to read that and push the "delete tab" key.
Slosh! Brilliant. A portmanteau of Slashdot and whoosh, and it humorously implies the sound of a pliable object as it strikes water in a deep porcelain vessel.
Human Rights, Article 12: Freedom from Interference with Privacy, Family, Home and Correspondence
too late.
Spotify needs DRM to keep their streams from being perfectly ripped. DRM and open-source are somewhat incompatible. It's not a Spotify problem, but a reality problem.
Any perception of reality that leads them to conclude that Flash is the correct solution would indicate a severe issue with mental competence.
When all you have is a hammer, every problem starts to look like a thumb.
at least the html5 video is slightly less likely to also come with a malicious payload.
Yeah, but it's damned hard to block, unlike Flash which was 100% blocked if I didn't have a Flash plugin or used a blocker.
Any perception of reality that leads them to conclude that Flash is the correct solution would indicate a severe issue with mental competence.
"Fine, FINE!!! We'll move to Silverlight then."
Yeah. Exactly.
There's options here, and one of them is definitely the worst.
(Off tomorrow to troubleshoot a camera system that uses Silverlight for its only interface. Yes, really: A local Silverlight application. There are no words.)
Kid-proof tablet..
Seriously, we need to move on and go all HTML5. Flash has been a pain in our side for YEARS. Adobe sucks, and we all know it.