Adobe Abandons Flash on Linux

[Doeno]

I read this morning that Adobe Flash is leaving Linux, mainly Mozilla, however, it will still be offered in Google's Chrome. I'm curious, is Chrome synonymous with Ubuntu's Chromium?

Ref. Link:

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/hardware/w...-mozilla/18425

Doeno wants to know?

[philinux]

Threads merged.

[Doeno]

I read this morning that Adobe Flash is leaving Linux, mainly Mozilla, however, it will still be offered in Google's Chrome. I'm curious, is Chrome synonymous with Ubuntu's Chromium?

Ref. Link:

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/hardware/w...-mozilla/18425

Doeno wants to know?

I see this thread already exists. Quite extensively too. Great thread. Lots of savvy feedback too. nothing more can be said.
See-ya !

[pqwoerituytrueiwoq]

looks like they are dropping support early to me...
https://bugbase.adobe.com/index.cfm?...bug&id=3109467

[lovinglinux]

Although not about flash, I thought would be interesting to post this article here:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/02...drm_infection/

It talks about the attempt of Microsoft, Goolge and Netflix to add DRM to HTML 5 specification.

[enjoijesus94]

I Heard About This.
Oh Well.

[neu5eeCh]

For those interested, Dedoimedo cuts loose on the subject. He has more than a few provocative opinions.

[lovinglinux]

For those interested, Dedoimedo cuts loose on the subject. He has more than a few provocative opinions.

I stopped reading when the article said is okay to use Chrome just to play flash videos. Is not. It breaks the work-flow completely, because once I have to open a different browser, I lose access to all the extensions, extra features and configurations of the browser of my choice. Let's say I want to download the video (assuming I have the right to do so), I will no longer be able to use the best extension for that purpose and there is also the possibility that Chrome doesn't have an extension to do that.

I may be paranoid, but this move by Google scares me a lot. Specially considering the rapid growth of Chrome market-share. I just hope Ubuntu doesn't drop Firefox and add Chrome, as already suggested in some articles I have read.

[cwklinuxguy]

So Pepper is NOT a Flash replacement, but rather a Javascript replacement...so in other words, Flash will no longer be offered for Linux at all. Great.

[Dr. C]

This sounds to me like much ado about nothing. How long will it take for the FLOSS comunity to develop a Pepper API plugin for Firefox? This is going to have zero impact on GNU / Linux and a minimal impact if any on Firefox