Adobe supporting Linux flash again

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Adobe supporting Linux flash again

#1 Post by Robert123 »

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#2 Post by Sailor Enceladus »

Cool. Gonna have to try this when I get home and see how well 23 Beta handles my Flash games vs. 11.2.

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#3 Post by drunkjedi »

Maybe we are better off without flash.

I wonder why the had a change of heart.

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#4 Post by Sailor Enceladus »

Pretty much all 22 comments on the article so far are talking about how Flash is a security hole and they just want it to die. No one there is rejoicing at all. I guess my comment above is the odd one out. Even though I rarely use it, I'm glad the option to use 23 in Linux actually exists now. Not sure why they stopped updating in Linux specifically before, not enough staff maybe?

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#5 Post by Colonel Panic »

For me this is good news, as I still use Flash. I accept that I seem to be in the minority nowadays but not all the sites I use run on HTML5.
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#6 Post by slavvo67 »

I am with the Colonel on this one. I'm not a big fan of Flash but it seems that at least some sites I use have not migrated.... yet...

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#7 Post by ttuuxxx »

Here's a 32 bit package http://www.smokey01.com/ttuuxxx/Flash/f ... .0.162.pet package made with slacko
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http://audio.online-convert.com/ <-- excellent site
http://samples.mplayerhq.hu/A-codecs/ <-- Codec Test Files
http://html5games.com/ <-- excellent HTML5 games :)

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#8 Post by drunkjedi »

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.

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#9 Post by bark_bark_bark »

I agree, it's nice that flash will be updated. Flash 11.2 just was filled with a lot of issues and I'm glad they're releasing an up-to-date version.
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#10 Post by rufwoof »

Colonel Panic wrote:For me this is good news, as I still use Flash. I accept that I seem to be in the minority nowadays but not all the sites I use run on HTML5.
Firefox, my first choice browser for its zoom page plugin, together with its HTML5 support serves nearly all my needs, except the BBC who have been very slow to migrate to HTML5. For that I use Chromium + pepperflash. I used to use adobe reader a lot for PDF's, but now favour masterpdfeditor3 which supports editing (highlighting, drawing ...etc) as well. Adobe have somewhat shot themselves in the foot and lost a large captive market, it will be a long struggle to regain (if ever) their former glory levels IMO.

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