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Adobe Discontinues Flash Player For Linux
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Adobe Flash Player 11.2 will be the last native version for Linux. It is likely to arrive in the first quarter of 2012.
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Thursday, February 23, 2012:
Adobe has announced plans to discontinue direct downloads of Flash Player for Linux. After the release of Flash Player 11.2 later this year, Linux users who want to view Flash content will only be able to do it through Google's Chrome browser.
"Adobe has been working closely with Google to develop a single modern API for hosting plugins within the browser (one which could replace the current Netscape plugin API being used by the Flash Player). The PPAPI, code-named Pepper, aims to provide a layer between the plugin and browser that abstracts away differences between browser and operating system implementations," the company said in a blog posting.
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Adobe announced in the roadmap document that Flash Player 11.2 will be the last native version for Linux. This release will feature mouse-lock support, right and middle mouse-click support, context menu disabling, support for more hardware accelerated video cards (from January 2008) in order to expand availability of hardware-accelerated content, new Throttle event API (dispatches event when Flash Player throttles, pauses, or resumes content), and multi-threaded video decoding pipeline on the desktop.
For Flash Player releases after 11.2, the Flash Player browser plugin for Linux will only be available via the “Pepper” API under the Google Chrome browser distribution. Thereafter, it won't be available as a direct download from Adobe. Adobe will, however, continue to provide security updates to non-Pepper distributions of Flash Player 11.2 on Linux for five years from its release.
Adobe's move is only going to affect Linux platforms. The company says it plans to continue supporting non-"Pepper" plugin APIs on platforms other than Linux.
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