![]() ![]() Linux users will either have a choice of using 1) no flash 2) use an outdated version and just get security updates until adobe stops supporting it 3) move to chrome or 4) convince adobe to continue providing an NAPI plugin.Īs 4) is very unlikely I suspect users will resort to 2 or 3. Well that made sense back then but now at least for linux there is a reason for supporting it but oh well. > conversation that reflects some of our reasoning. This has been discussed in multiple places, here is one I should update the wiki to more accurately > We are not going to do this, at least that is our decision as of right now. (In reply to Josh Aas (Mozilla Corporation) from comment #3) ![]() Well the plugin shipped with chrome could then be used if we had support for pepper plugins. > So even if, hypothetically, we were to implement Pepper, it wouldn't help ![]() > Chrome, not that they will have a standalone Pepper-based plug-in you can > Note that the announcement says that Flash will only be available as part of (In reply to Boris Zbarsky (:bz) from comment #1) It is kind of unfortunate to tie the plugin to a specific browser like this but the other alternative would be to just have leave linux users with an outdated plugin forever or force them to switch away from mozilla / firefox. So without pepper support Linux users would be stuck to a specific flash plugin version at some point, with pepper they could at least get the one shipped with chrome. Flash Player will continue to support browsers using non-“Pepper” plug-in APIs on platforms other than Linux." Adobe will continue to provide security updates to non-Pepper distributions of Flash Player 11.2 on Linux for five years from its release. "For Flash Player releases after 11.2, the Flash Player browser plug-in 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. "Mozilla is not interested in or working on Pepper at this time" but given Adobe's recent Plugin roadmap ( ) which states: ![]()
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