Flash Player for Linux will only be available via Google Chrome's Pepper API
Hello On the Adobe blog there an interesting post: http://blogs.adobe.com/flashplayer/2012/02/adobe-and-google-partnering-for-flash-player-on-linux.html Quote: For Flash Player releases after 11.2, the Flash Player browser plugin 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. Adobe will continue to provide security updates to non-Pepper distributions of Flash Player 11.2 on Linux for five years from its release. How will Seamonkey handle this situation? Five years on Flash 11.2 doesnt sound promising... -- O zi buna, Kertesz Laszlo ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Flash Player for Linux will only be available via Google Chrome's Pepper API
Interviewed by CNN on 22/02/2012 09:13, Kertesz Laszlo told the world: Hello On the Adobe blog there an interesting post: http://blogs.adobe.com/flashplayer/2012/02/adobe-and-google-partnering-for-flash-player-on-linux.html Quote: For Flash Player releases after 11.2, the Flash Player browser plugin 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. Adobe will continue to provide security updates to non-Pepper distributions of Flash Player 11.2 on Linux for five years from its release. How will Seamonkey handle this situation? Five years on Flash 11.2 doesnt sound promising... Well, even Adobe admits that Flash is a dying technology -- Apple never allowed it on the iOS family, it was recently discontinued in most mobile devices... new sites are avoiding Flash like the plague because it won't run in an iPad. For things like video, sites are offering HTML5 alternatives. So, the lack of Flash 12 (or whatever it's going to be called eventually) probably won't make much of a difference for users: most sites should run fine with Flash 11.2, since they are older implementations. And adobe IS committing to do security updates for Flash 11.2. -- MCBastos This message has been protected with the 2ROT13 algorithm. Unauthorized use will be prosecuted under the DMCA. -=-=- ... Sent from my VT-100. * Added by TagZilla 0.7a1 running on Seamonkey 2.7.2 * Get it at http://xsidebar.mozdev.org/modifiedmailnews.html#tagzilla ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Flash Player for Linux will only be available via Google Chrome's Pepper API
On 2/22/2012 5:32 AM PT, MCBastos typed: So, the lack of Flash 12 (or whatever it's going to be called eventually) probably won't make much of a difference for users: most sites should run fine with Flash 11.2, since they are older implementations. And adobe IS committing to do security updates for Flash 11.2. Does Adobe still commit updates for older Flash like v10? -- Look not to the windmill's turning while the ant still burrows. --unknown /\___/\ Ant(Dude) @ http://antfarm.ma.cx (Personal Web Site) / /\ /\ \Ant's Quality Foraged Links: http://aqfl.net | |o o| | \ _ /If crediting, then use Ant nickname and AQFL URL/link. ( ) If e-mailing, then axe ANT from its address if needed. Ant is currently not listening to any songs on this computer. ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: Flash Player for Linux will only be available via Google Chrome's Pepper API
On 02/22/2012 03:13 AM, Kertesz Laszlo wrote: Hello On the Adobe blog there an interesting post: http://blogs.adobe.com/flashplayer/2012/02/adobe-and-google-partnering-for-flash-player-on-linux.html Quote: For Flash Player releases after 11.2, the Flash Player browser plugin 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. Adobe will continue to provide security updates to non-Pepper distributions of Flash Player 11.2 on Linux for five years from its release. How will Seamonkey handle this situation? Five years on Flash 11.2 doesnt sound promising... I'm also interested in a response. However, I think it's time for Linux to abandon *all* things Adobe... Adobe abandons Linux By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols | February 22, 2012, 10:41am PST Summary: Adobe has announced its future plans for Flash and AIR and Linux isn’t part of them. Flash will still, however, be available to Linux desktop users who use Google’s Chrome Web browser. http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/adobe-abandons-linux/10418 ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
