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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 obtu »

makomk wrote: post #7
nodata wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

The only option to get newer versions of the Adobe plugin. The 11.2 branch will get security updates into 2017 (2012-03-27 + 5 years): https://blogs.adobe.com/flashplayer/2012/02/adobe-and-google...

Re: Chrome 20 Takes Over Adobe Flash On Linux

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Post by TazeTSchnitzel »

eiji wrote: post #10

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.

Are they really? I'd say they are far more invested in WebKit, HTML5 and Java.

Re: Chrome 20 Takes Over Adobe Flash On Linux

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Post by mrlase »

For what its worth, I have an Nvidia card and am running Ubuntu 12.04: Chrome's Flash plugin does not work very well on the latest dev build; it has some weird issue with playing flash at double speed or something. I had to switch back to Adobe's flash plugin until this issue is resolved... This could potentially be hardware specific in my case, but, just wanted to let others know that Adobe's plugin still works.

Re: Chrome 20 Takes Over Adobe Flash On Linux

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Post by hippich »

jtsagata wrote: post #5

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

I played yesterday with some SVG demos again and with Raphael JS library. We need to invest more efforts into open source technology instead of trying to patch existing proprietary and inefficient solution.

Re: Chrome 20 Takes Over Adobe Flash On Linux

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Post by panacea »

TazeTSchnitzel wrote: post #13
eiji wrote: post #10

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.

Are they really? I'd say they are far more invested in WebKit, HTML5 and Java.

The only things I can think of are Flash in YouTube provides far more control over playback for things like downloading, ad delivery etc.

But fundamentally... Street View. I can't see how that will be delivered with high performance by HTML5 any time soon.

Re: Chrome 20 Takes Over Adobe Flash On Linux

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Post by jiggy2011 »

qznc wrote: post #17

Does that include a fix for the smurf bug? https://bugbase.adobe.com/index.cfm?event=bug&id=3109467 Unfortunatelly, the last and final release of Adobe Flash for Linux has a bug, which shuffles the colors in Youtube videos. So far it seemed they never fix that.

You can fix that by disabling hardware acceleration.

Right click on a flash element -> settings -> untick

Re: Chrome 20 Takes Over Adobe Flash On Linux

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Post by TazeTSchnitzel »

panacea wrote: post #16
TazeTSchnitzel wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are they really? I'd say they are far more invested in WebKit, HTML5 and Java.

The only things I can think of are Flash in YouTube provides far more control over playback for things like downloading, ad delivery etc. But fundamentally... Street View. I can't see how that will be delivered with high performance by HTML5 any time soon.

WebGL or perhaps fiddling with Canvas. It's only a matter of time.

Re: Chrome 20 Takes Over Adobe Flash On Linux

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Post by jiggy2011 »

panacea wrote: post #16
TazeTSchnitzel wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are they really? I'd say they are far more invested in WebKit, HTML5 and Java.

The only things I can think of are Flash in YouTube provides far more control over playback for things like downloading, ad delivery etc. But fundamentally... Street View. I can't see how that will be delivered with high performance by HTML5 any time soon.

It doesn't seem that unlikely, street view is mostly a fancy slideshow.
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