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    Flash [Adobe] is to be resurrected

    I was really hoping Flash was going away, but apparently Adobe is trying to bring it back for Linux

    https://www.neowin.net/news/adobe-re...layer-on-linux

    I think this is not a good idea.
    Kubuntu 24.11 64bit under Kernel 6.11.4, Hp Pavilion, 6MB ram. Stay away from all things Google...

    #2
    Eugh. Why won't it just die?

    I wonder who was pushing for this?
    samhobbs.co.uk

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      #3
      I don't know for sure, but at a guess, they may have received complaints from the many (too many) websites which still use flash for ads and content.

      With HTML5 video support becoming more mature, Flash just isn't needed anymore, but there is much money invested in existing Flash content. I suspect the people who wrote, designed and use Flash content just want to extract the most return on their investment. Ignoring the problems that Flash brings with it.

      [/rantoff]
      Last edited by TWPonKubuntu; Sep 10, 2016, 09:59 AM. Reason: spelling
      Kubuntu 24.11 64bit under Kernel 6.11.4, Hp Pavilion, 6MB ram. Stay away from all things Google...

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        #4
        We are in transition with this, so it seems. This gets messy. As I posted elsewhere here, one website (pch.com) tells me it works better with Chrome, and not so much with my Firefox. Try it with Chrome and what do you get? You get a pop-up request to install the latest version of Flash (not the version provided to Kubuntu through Muon, for example). Conclusion (at least for me, at least this time): Run the darned thing with Firefox and deal with all the reloading of pages and such to make it mostly go right, usually, sort of.
        An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way. Charles Bukowski

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          #5
          I use HTML5.
          Flash is disabled but I can, if need arises, enable it for a specific video and no more.
          "A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.”
          – John F. Kennedy, February 26, 1962.

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            #6
            Originally posted by GreyGeek View Post
            I use HTML5.
            Flash is disabled but I can, if need arises, enable it for a specific video and no more.
            Ditto for me.

            I refuse to install Flash in my daily K14.04 Firefox browser. If I *REALLY* need Flash I'll start up Chrome or (as I do for horrid DRM requiring TV On Demand) view the content in a VirtualBox machine (Xubuntu 12.04) using Firefox/Flash.
            Desktop PC: Intel Core-i5-4670 3.40Ghz, 16Gb Crucial ram, Asus H97-Plus MB, 128Gb Crucial SSD + 2Tb Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 HDD running Kubuntu 18.04 LTS and Kubuntu 14.04 LTS (on SSD).
            Laptop: HP EliteBook 8460p Core-i5-2540M, 4Gb ram, Transcend 120Gb SSD, currently running Deepin 15.8 and Manjaro KDE 18.

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              #7
              Originally posted by Rod J View Post
              I refuse to install Flash in my daily K14.04 Firefox browser. If I *REALLY* need Flash I'll start up Chrome or (as I do for horrid DRM requiring TV On Demand) view the content in a VirtualBox machine (Xubuntu 12.04) using Firefox/Flash.
              chromium is my go-to browser but I also have pepperflash installed in Firefox. I haven't used Adobe flash in years.
              we see things not as they are, but as we are.
              -- anais nin

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                #8
                pishaw ,,,,,,,,,,this and that ,,,,that and this ,,,,,,, I use whatever works for what I'm doing .

                I have flash installed ,,,,,,,, and use google chrome for things that need the DRM , like Amazon prime video .

                ,,,,,,,,,,, ya whatever

                VINNY
                i7 4core HT 8MB L3 2.9GHz
                16GB RAM
                Nvidia GTX 860M 4GB RAM 1152 cuda cores

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                  #9
                  I wish all the websites used HTML5. I hate flash. It is a resource hog among other things.
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                    #10
                    Originally posted by life0riley View Post
                    I hate flash. It is a resource hog among other things.
                    that it is ,,,,you can watch it's "plugin container" pushing your CPU up in "top" .

                    lucky for me I have a 8core i7 that will run up to 3.9 GHz

                    VINNY
                    i7 4core HT 8MB L3 2.9GHz
                    16GB RAM
                    Nvidia GTX 860M 4GB RAM 1152 cuda cores

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                      #11
                      The free game created stencyl exports to flash, HTML5 export is still considered 'beta'. Isn't FF thinking of abandoning NPAPI though?

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                      Last edited by jpenguin; Sep 21, 2016, 09:49 AM.
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                        #12
                        Originally posted by jpenguin View Post
                        ... Isn't FF thinking of abandoning NPAPI though?
                        ...
                        Latest word that I heard:

                        https://blog.mozilla.org/futurerelea...ge-in-firefox/

                        Key phrase re NPAPI in the link: "As we announced last year, Firefox plans to drop support for all NPAPI plugins, except Flash, in March 2017."
                        Kubuntu 24.11 64bit under Kernel 6.11.4, Hp Pavilion, 6MB ram. Stay away from all things Google...

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