vissha Posted September 5, 2016 Share Posted September 5, 2016 Adobe Has Decided To Support Flash Player on Linux Again Flash — Ah-ahhh. Quote Uhh, this is a weird one. Adobe has announced that it plans to start supporting Adobe Flash for Linux — 4 years after it abandoned Flash on Linux. Back in 2012 the company said it would not make newer versions of its NPAPI Flash player plugin available on Linux and would only provide security updates for Flash Player 11.2 until 2017. But, in a small announcement made on its blog last week, Adobe has done a u-turn on both decisions, and provided a beta build of Adobe Flash 23 for Linux. Wait, WHAT?! Yup, Adobe has announced that it is to resume support of the NPAPI Flash Player plugin on Linux. Furthermore, it will not stop providing security updates in 2017 as previously announced: “in the past, we communicated that NPAPI Linux releases would stop in 2017. This is no longer the case”, they write. A new beta of the NPAPI plugin has been made available to download. While it won’t work in apps that have deprecated or removed NPAPI plugins (like Google Chrome) it should play nice in Mozilla Firefox and other apps. Adobe says it plans to regularly update both the NPAPI and PPAPI versions of Flash Player for Linux. Wow! Go Adobe, Right?! Nah, not quite. See, while Adobe plans to keep these new builds up to date and in sync with major releases on Windows and Mac, it doesn’t plan to support or add any advanced features and capabilities, like DRM, GPU acceleration, Stage 3D, etc. to the NPAPI version on Linux. Those of you seeking that level of functionality are advised, say Adobe, to use the PPAPI version of Flash Player. Why has Adobe done this? Adobe says it is “… moving [the NPAPI Linux Flash player plugin] forward and in sync with the modern release branch” to “improve security and provide additional mitigation to the Linux community.” Which is a mature response — it’s never easy to (sort of) admit you were wrong! They go on to describe this change as “…primarily a security initiative” and say the “new NPAPI build represents a significant step forward in functionality, stability, and security.” I Think I Already Run New Flash on Linux? If you use Google Chrome, you do! Linux users have been able to use an up-to-date version of Flash (built as a PPAPI plugin) thanks to Google, who not only maintain it but ship it as part of Google Chrome and Chrome OS by default. Many Linux distributions, including Ubuntu, offer a “helper” package that downloads Chrome, extracts the PPAPI Flash plugin, and makes it available for other applications to use. Where Can I Download It? You can download binaries of the NPAPI Adobe Flash player beta from the Adobe Labs website. These are available as 32-bit and 64-bit binaries only (not an installer package) and are said to not work with Fedora (or Fedora-based distributions). <<< Download Adobe Flash Player Beta >>> For more on Adobe’s u-turn check out this post on the official Adobe Flash Player blog. Source Alternate - Main Source - Courtesy: Adobe Returns To Updating NPAPI/Linux Flash Player Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Everyone Posted September 5, 2016 Share Posted September 5, 2016 Just do us all a favor and die already! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oliverjia Posted September 5, 2016 Share Posted September 5, 2016 fxxk Adobe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D1v1n3D Posted September 5, 2016 Share Posted September 5, 2016 they are doing this because they are going BROKE period they are grasping at straws to try and build revenue but it isn't going to work next we need to KILL OFF JAVA.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SnakeMasteR Posted September 5, 2016 Share Posted September 5, 2016 How exactly does Flash running on open source gets them revenue? It isn't like they would sell licenses for freeware. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D1v1n3D Posted September 6, 2016 Share Posted September 6, 2016 advertisement and donations. like how all open source survives. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CODYQX4 Posted September 6, 2016 Share Posted September 6, 2016 . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeeSmithG Posted September 6, 2016 Share Posted September 6, 2016 Whop de do. They stopped using it on android, which meant installing an outdated version just to play games and view content at some sites. Why would they be losing monies, they charge a Kings ransom for their software and it's the old story, the more popular it becomes the more expensive it is. Think about when Adobe .PDF came along, fifty (50) bux for a license, then they realised it was darn popular, next release two hundred (200) bux a license and now even more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pc71520 Posted September 6, 2016 Share Posted September 6, 2016 22 hours ago, vissha said: Adobe Has Decided To Support Flash Player on Linux Again Unbelievable... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator DKT27 Posted September 6, 2016 Administrator Share Posted September 6, 2016 I wonder if Android would get it too. For a long time, I was also one of those who kept it's outdated version on the Android, as that was required. Later it turned out, stopping it on Android was one the of the best things that could happen to internet and mobile sites. After removing it from my Android that I found that so many sites out there switched to HTML5 quite well. While some sites still do not work in Firefox, these days, I rarely come across any mobile site which requires this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steven36 Posted September 6, 2016 Share Posted September 6, 2016 You always could get the latest flash support on Linux by installing freshplayer and use pepper flash from chrome in Firefox https://github.com/i-rinat/freshplayerplugin With the demise of NPAPI in Firefox soon i guess its a good thing for people who still use flash to strat back devopling but i dont use flash i stream trough MPV with youtube-dl only now sometimes i use html5 but hardly ever , Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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