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Adobe is undertaking a withdrawal in the World Linux: Last year stopped posting updates to AIR and, in the coming months, will be the launch of Flash Player 11.2, which will be the latest version available for this platform. Likewise, some alternatives may be used to take advantage of the new functionalities that are incorporated into future versions for other operating systems. |
The news was released in the adobe blog and says that from the next version it can only be downloaded to install directly on Windows and Mac. In Linux you can only have Flash using the Pepper API that will be available for the Google Chrome browser.
Adobe has worked with Google to replace the Netscape plugin API, used by Adobe Flash Player until now, with Pepper. PPAPI is compatible with most browsers and operating systems, although Mozilla has already announced that it is not interested in it and that it will not implement it in its Mozilla Firefox browser. So Adobe Flash player will only be available for Chrome / Chromium starting this year.
Adobe will continue to provide security updates for non-Pepper-based versions of Flash Player 11.2 for Linux for five years after its release.
Alternatives
- Use Google Chrome / Chromium, most of them do.
- Use some free alternative to Flash, although they are still pretty bad.
- Wait for the pages to fully adopt HTML5 and we can forget about Flash once and for all.
- Make Firefox use the Flash plugin embedded in Google Chrome.
How to make Firefox use the Google Chrome Flash plugin
The first and essential thing is to have Firefox and Google Chrome installed. Once that was done, I opened a terminal and did the following steps:
1.- Remove installed Flash plugins.
sudo apt-get remove flashplugin- *
2.- Create the necessary folders in your HOME directory
mkdir -p ~ / .mozilla / plugins
3.- Connect the Chrome Flash plugin with Firefox.
ln -s /opt/google/chrome/libgcflashplayer.so ~ / .mozilla / plugins /
4.- Open Firefox and select Tools - Extensions. Disable Shockwave Flash.
Every time Chrome is updated, the changes will be noticeable in Firefox as well.
adobes and ctm! and google and ctm ¬ ¬ I do not use chrome or chromium I hate it is a disgusting literalemte I prefer firefox, midori
you are right brother damn company that do not know anything about users, I will die with firexfox, this with the people and the people united will never be defeated.
forever firexfox
While Adobe thinks that it rejects us it is the other way around ...
They think: "And now that Linux is doing without us" we think: "Screw Flash Player, I'm moving to HTML5", almost nothing is missing for this change to complete its process and I'm going to be there to laugh at them, so long in the shadow of Adobe and finally I will be free ...
Just wait because the page that I visit the most (YouTube) is now available to test the videos in HTML5 and it is much more comfortable for me.
I do not like a hair the path that Google is taking, trying to cover everything. In addition, its new security policy has led me to rethink, in fact I already do, the use of other search engines and other services outside of Google. What's more, now, from time to time, I carry out searches that have nothing to do with my interests, to confuse the robots that build personal profiles.
By the way, Google, not so long ago, paid Mozilla good money to make Google the default search engine in the Mozilla bar. Mozilla should be careful because accepting such contracts may mean digging its own grave.
Now, they go for Adobe ...
I like Chrome, it goes fast ... but the gurus say it has more holes than Gruyère cheese ...
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Flash was always a pain in the ass for Linux! I have an old touch hard, always playing flash was a hassle. At home I have 2 twin machines practically: one of mine with Linux and another of my old ones with Windows, in both is Firefox with Flash! official for Linux goes backwards, beyond my hard.
Did you notice the (wide) difference in Flash requirements on its various platforms? For Windows it always asked for 128, Mac 256, Linux 512 !! .. the same if you had Solaris it would ask for 1GB or something like that. That for me was an indicator of how stubborn the cross-platform implementation was.
I liked the published alternatives. And an additional one, although it is not as "linuxra" as the ones you published, is to install Windows Firefox via Wine (winetricks helps a lot), I have it and it works.
regards
Well, I can't test it because neither in version 17 nor 18 of Chromium nor in the current stable of Chrome there is that plugin.
Try it and tell us. If it doesn't work, it's a matter of re-enabling it, right?
Cheers! Paul.
Either you use Chrome or you run out of flash !!!
That is what these children of their mother want to tell us… ..?
who knows if google is not in the back ......
I do not trust google anymore, they are already scared of the power they are reaching. Now I use IceCat and so happy ...
Step 4 is correct? Disable Shockwave Flash? So which plugin will you use?
You can use YouTube with HTML5, to enable it you have to go to: http://www.youtube.com/html5
For me it will not be a big problem since I use google chrome, so ...
I think that the correct expression would be "I don't like a hair the way Mozilla is taking", because as far as the article reports, the problem comes from Mozilla who is not interested in it or wants to implement it in their browser.
Loved or hated, it seems like a step backward in terms of compatibility. I already see a near future in which the family persecutes me because Flash stopped working in their browsers.
Give them sausages to flash, it only serves to eat ram, crush you to ads, and sneak security holes. HTML5 and ajax are alternatives with free standards. They already cracked with flash on mobiles, and now this. RIP
Regrettable from Adobe.
"Use Google Chrome / Chromium, most do."
Sorry, the argument for this alternative is very bad. I don't use things because I use them the most ... And I prefer to use and continue to use mostly Mozilla Firefox
at one time we will say that adobe flash player became ancient history.
Hopefully!
You can also use Pipelight (it is not so linuxero), which allows you to install MS Windows plugins in Linux, and you can use flash, and on my Core 2 Duo it is a gem! And it allows you to install more things outside of Linux, like Unity Web Player, it works perfectly!
I have not used Flash for years, in fact I have it blocked through Plugins in my Firefox / Iceweasel, if I enter a site and it requires Flash I turn back.