Adobe Flash For Linux Will Only Be Available For Chrome

7:05 PM

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According to a blog post by Adobe, after the 11.2 release, Flash Player for Linux will only be available through a new "Pepper" API as a part of Google Chrome, and won't be available as a separate download anymore. However, Adobe will continue to offer security updates for Flash Player 11.2 for Linux for five years.

Google will provide the "Pepper" Flash Player implementation for all supported Chrome platforms, including Linux (x86/64).

As for Firefox, its Wiki states that "Mozilla is not interested in or working on Pepper at this time". But even if Mozilla changes its mind, the post on Adobe's website says that Flash will be bundled with Google Chrome only, so unless Mozilla and Adobe become partners, they probably can't use it.

At this point, Mozilla's options are: use an alternative like Gnash or Lightspark (which will hopefully become more reliable) or hope that in 5 years, Flash won't matter and HTML5 will be used pretty much everywhere.


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Adobe Releases Flash Player 11 Beta (64bit Too)

5:44 AM

Adobe has released Flash Player 11 beta, the new version being available for both 32bit and 64bit (yes, for Linux too!).


Among the improvements in the latest Adobe Flash Player 11 beta are:

  • Stage3D APIs ("Molehill")
  • Cubic Bezier Curves
  • Linux Vector Printing is now available on Linux too
  • G.711 Audio Compression for Telephony
  • H.264/AVC SW Encoding for Camera

Adobe has also released Adobe Air 3 in a private beta (but it won't be available for Linux - according to their previous blog post) as well as a new public bug system for both Adobe Flash and Air.


Install Adobe Flash Player 11 beta in Linux



Update: if you use Firefox, try Flash Aid addon for easily installing the latest Adobe Flash Player (thanks to Sid32 for the tip!).

The easiest way to install Adobe Flash Player 11 beta (currently version 11.0.1.60) is to download the .tar.gz, extract it and copy the "libflashplayer.so" file into ~/.mozilla/plugins (if this folder doesn't exist, create it). This isn't just for Firefox and will also work for Chromium, Epiphany, etc.

Using this Flash Player installation method, you can also easily remove it if you want to go back to your initial Adobe Flash Player version: just remove the "libflashplayer.so" file under ~/.mozilla/plugins and restart the browser.

To get a "full installation"  like tweaking Flash propreties and more, you'll have to copy the rest of the files available in the Flash Player 11 .tar.gz archive into their appropriate folders (just copy each file under the "usr" folder in the downloaded archive to the corresponding system folder. But this is not required to have a working Adobe Flash Player 11 beta.


For 64bit users, there's an Ubuntu PPA available - packages available for Ubuntu Oneiric, Natty, Maverick, Lucid, Karmic and Hardy. Add the PPA (64bit only!) and install the latest Adobe Flash Player using the commands below:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:sevenmachines/flash
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install flashplugin64-installer


Download Adobe Flash Player 11 beta (available for Linux, Windows and Mac OS X, both 32bit and 64bit).



Thanks to amano for the tip!

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