Chrome 20 Takes Over Adobe Flash On Linux

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Post by mdesantis » Thu, Jun 28, 2012, 9:15 AM UTC

Chrome 20 Takes Over Adobe Flash On Linux
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Re: Chrome 20 Takes Over Adobe Flash On Linux

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Post by usablebytes » Thu, Jun 28, 2012, 10:28 AM UTC

what is this news? can somebody read and try to explain me/all what exactly is happening here?

Re: Chrome 20 Takes Over Adobe Flash On Linux

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Post by nodata » Thu, Jun 28, 2012, 10:31 AM UTC

usablebytes wrote: post #2

what is this news? can somebody read and try to explain me/all what exactly is happening here?

iirc Adobe has dropped NPAPI support for browsers on Linux, leaving Chrome on Linux as the only browser that support the new PPAPI interface.

So if you want to use new versions of Flash on Linux, you have to use Chrome.

Re: Chrome 20 Takes Over Adobe Flash On Linux

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Post by Tichy » Thu, Jun 28, 2012, 10:40 AM UTC

What will happen to Flash on the Ubuntu LTS releases? Will it be automatically removed at some point?

Re: Chrome 20 Takes Over Adobe Flash On Linux

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Post by jtsagata » Thu, Jun 28, 2012, 10:47 AM UTC

For one happy moment i was expecting a working open source implementation. Then i crashed on the ground...

Re: Chrome 20 Takes Over Adobe Flash On Linux

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Post by trotsky » Thu, Jun 28, 2012, 11:12 AM UTC

Tichy wrote: post #4

What will happen to Flash on the Ubuntu LTS releases? Will it be automatically removed at some point?

Adobe is still providing bugfix versions of the 11.2 tree for NPAPI linux.

Re: Chrome 20 Takes Over Adobe Flash On Linux

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Post by makomk » Thu, Jun 28, 2012, 11:34 AM UTC

nodata wrote: post #3

usablebytes wrote: post #2

what is this news? can somebody read and try to explain me/all what exactly is happening here?

iirc Adobe has dropped NPAPI support for browsers on Linux, leaving Chrome on Linux as the only browser that support the new PPAPI interface. So if you want to use new versions of Flash on Linux, you have to use Chrome.

Obviously Chromium supports PPAPI too, but as far as I can tell the PPAPI version of Flash isn't available for it so the official Google-branded Chrome releases really are the only option for Flash on Linux.

Re: Chrome 20 Takes Over Adobe Flash On Linux

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Post by randomfool » Thu, Jun 28, 2012, 11:58 AM UTC

Does this mean Flash is being executed in the native client sandbox as well? If so, hooray! (and can we enable this on other platforms)?

Re: Chrome 20 Takes Over Adobe Flash On Linux

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Post by kayluhb » Thu, Jun 28, 2012, 12:00 PM UTC

Maybe this is why my Chrome browser on Ubuntu has suddenly started being completely unresponsive whenever it loads Flash.

Re: Chrome 20 Takes Over Adobe Flash On Linux

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Post by eiji » Thu, Jun 28, 2012, 12:43 PM UTC

Google is so invested in Flash at this point. Why don't they just take over/buy "Flash" with it's engineers from Adobe? Probably hard to separate them from the Air team and all the other "products" from Adobe.