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Gnash, Lightspark, and ShumwayGnash, Lightspark, and ShumwayPosted Nov 23, 2012 15:30 UTC (Fri) by drag (subscriber, #31333)In reply to: Gnash, Lightspark, and Shumway by dlang Parent article: Gnash, Lightspark, and Shumway
> Remember that Adobe has stopped development on Flash for Linux. So new versions are going to have features that you just can't get on Linux.
No they didn't. They just stopped development of flash netscape plugin.
The 'Pepper' version of Flash is vastly superior and is up-to-date.
It would be nice if Adobe Flash would die, but whatever happens on the Linux desktop has no bearing on it's fate.
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Gnash, Lightspark, and Shumway Posted Nov 23, 2012 20:12 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
s/vastly superior/almost indistinguishable, but somewhat sandboxed and not maintenance-dead/g
(Note: Pepper Flash works perfectly well with Chromium, too, so you can have your free cake with your non-free PPAPI plugin if you want it.)
Gnash, Lightspark, and Shumway Posted Nov 23, 2012 20:58 UTC (Fri) by Jonno (subscriber, #49613) [Link]
> (Note: Pepper Flash works perfectly well with Chromium, too, so you can have your free cake with your non-free PPAPI plugin if you want it.)
Except there is no *legal* way to get the pepper Flash plugin without installing Chrome, which makes it sort of irrelevant that you don't need Chrome to run it...
Gnash, Lightspark, and Shumway Posted Dec 4, 2012 15:49 UTC (Tue) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
You can install Chrome, build Chromium, then use the latter with the former's plugin. Works fine and lets you hack all of it except the non-free plugin (though obviously there are changes you cannot make to PPAPI without breaking the plugin).
Gnash, Lightspark, and Shumway Posted Nov 29, 2012 18:18 UTC (Thu) by JanC_ (guest, #34940) [Link]
The NSAPI Flash plugin doesn't work well with (recent versions of?) Chrome/Chromium, so I suppose Google wanted the PPAPI for that reason.
(The NSAPI Flash plugin still works fine with Firefox & Opera & other browsers though...)
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