On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 3:03 PM, Miles O'Neal <[email protected]> wrote: > Adobe quit supporting Linux a while back so the last Flash plugin available > is pretty out of date. Between missing features and security concerns, it's > gotten to the point that a lot of content providers- and Mozilla- simply no > longer support it.
That is not true. Adobe has not stopped supporting GNU/Linux and has not announced any plans to stop support for GNU/Linux in the future. The NPAPI Adobe Flash Player plugin for Mozilla Firefox (the flash-player package from the Adobe repositories) will not have new major releases but will receive security fixes until March of 2017. Adobe has still committed to supporting GNU/Linux by moving from NPAPI to coordinating with Google to release a embedded PPAPI version of Adobe Flash Player with Google Chrome. Mozilla however refuses to adopt PPAPI plugins. The real problem is that Mozilla believes that HTML5 and JavaScript can do everything that plugins currently do, hence they are refusing to adopt new standards for browser plugins. Mozilla wants a plugin-free internet. Since NPAPI has security issues, Google is depreciating support for such plugins in Chrome/Chromium. The chromium-pepper-flash package which has been posted here is a version of Adobe Flash Player developed and supported by Adobe for inclusion with Google Chrome. It looks like the author of the package has taken the PPAPI from Google Chrome and is re-packaging it for Mozilla Firefox. The freshplayerplugin package is a PPAPI to NPAPI converter. This allows you to use Pepper/PPAPI plugins in browsers like Mozilla Firefox that only support NPAPI plugins. These instructions are basically installing the Adobe Flash Player plugin from Adobe included in Google Chrome for Mozilla Firefox. It is not a free/libre or open-source Flash player. Additionally, unless you manually update this package every time there is an Adobe Flash Player exploit you are putting your computer at risk. If you really want to use these packages, you aught to install the repository so it is automatically updated with the system. yum -y install epel-release && rpm -Uvh http://li.nux.ro/download/nux/dextop/el7/x86_64/nux-dextop-release-0-5.el7.nux.noarch.rpm Brandon Vincent
