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Updates on Flash support for Linux

Updates on Flash support for Linux

Posted Apr 19, 2012 3:52 UTC (Thu) by jake (editor, #205)
In reply to: Updates on Flash support for Linux by jcm
Parent article: Updates on Flash support for Linux

> Linux in general is seenas too hostile as a moving target platform for
> Adobe to want to continue releasing a standalone plugin outside of Chrome

while I'm aware of your platform soapbox, this doesn't really seem to fit with that, does it? Adobe won't be doing plugins for Firefox on *Windows* or *OS X* either, will it? This is Adobe dissing the NPAPI "platform", I think, not Linux ... or am I (as usual) missing something?

jake


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Updates on Flash support for Linux

Posted Apr 19, 2012 4:07 UTC (Thu) by cuviper (subscriber, #56273) [Link]

Adobe's announcement said, "Flash Player will continue to support browsers using non-"Pepper" plugin APIs on platforms other than Linux."

Updates on Flash support for Linux

Posted Apr 19, 2012 12:34 UTC (Thu) by jake (editor, #205) [Link]

Indeed. Clearly I was confused. I plead "lack of neurons" or something.

jake

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