Craig Sanders <[email protected]> writes:
> instead, i installed Chromium, the open-source version of google chrome.
> this has an updated flash player built-in (newer than the stand-alone
> linux version which works with firefox).
I ship chromium (& pepper flash[0]) to inmates.
To the best of my knowledge:
1. Adobe does not maintain Adobe Flash on Linux. AT ALL.
That means no security updates.
2. Google *does* maintain Adobe Flash on Linux *in Chrome*.
Firefox/Iceweasel doesn't benefit, because it uses NaCl (google)
rather than nsapi (netscape) plugin architecture.
This is called "pepper flash", presumably because NaCl => table salt.
3. Chromium *does not* include pepper flash, at least on Debian,
because it is still closed-source proprietary software.
4. pepperflashplugin-nonfree is in Debian nonfree;
it downloads the *whole* non-free chrome deb,
picks out the flash.so & gives it to chromium.
5. Chromium cannot be compiled with Debian 7's GCC (4.6) anymore,
and nobody even *thinks* about backporting for GUI browsers.
That means no security updates for chromium on Debian 7.
[0] because an educator uses echo360 to distribute lecture videos,
and echo360 can't do HTML5 video.
I can't even get test access to see if gnash or vlc will suffice.
Sigh.
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