As you might have heard already, Adobe has announced that, under Linux, new versions of its Flash Player after 11.2 will only be available for Google Chrome, via its new 'Pepper' plugin API (PPAPI), dropping the support of the old Netscape plugin API (NPAPI). This means that Firefox' Flash support on Linux will freeze at version 11.2 unless Mozilla comes up with some better plans like partnering with Adobe (extremely doubtful), or supporting the 'Pepper' API, in which it
From the Adobe blog:
So, this doesn't mean that it is the end of Flash on Linux for Firefox users. As you can read above, security updates for Flash 11.2 will be provided for the next 5 years. Till then, we might well have switched to HTML5 completely, or if not, we might have an acceptably stable open source Flash player at least. There are already a few open source Flash players around, like Gnash, Lightspark and Swfdec, but I am really sorry to say that so far, none of them really competes with Adobe Flash Player in any sense.
Google Chrome browser already ships with an embedded Adobe Flash Player, and will start shipping with the PPAPI-based version later this year.
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From the Adobe blog:
For Flash Player releases after 11.2, the Flash Player browser plugin for Linux will only be available via the �Pepper� API as part of the Google Chrome browser distribution and will no longer be available as a direct download from Adobe. Adobe will continue to provide security updates to non-Pepper distributions of Flash Player 11.2 on Linux for five years from its release.
So, this doesn't mean that it is the end of Flash on Linux for Firefox users. As you can read above, security updates for Flash 11.2 will be provided for the next 5 years. Till then, we might well have switched to HTML5 completely, or if not, we might have an acceptably stable open source Flash player at least. There are already a few open source Flash players around, like Gnash, Lightspark and Swfdec, but I am really sorry to say that so far, none of them really competes with Adobe Flash Player in any sense.
Google Chrome browser already ships with an embedded Adobe Flash Player, and will start shipping with the PPAPI-based version later this year.
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