Current situation of Adobe Flash player on linux

[Pallidus]

I have been flash free for over a year now


here's something that I noticed:


in windows using internet explorer 10 withou flash EVERY single youtube video will play

in linux in firefox you have to use the /embed/ trick...

scumbag google


besides that, youtube and porn in mp4 I am pretty happy without flash


flash is like rebecca fox's pussy, you think you need it but all it gives you is virus

[johnc]

You need "libpepflashplayer.so" from Chrome, because Chromium doesn't include the proprietary plugins (Flash and a PDF reader). And for Chromium to use it, you need to launch it with "--ppapi-flash-path=/path/to/libpepflashplayer.so". On Gentoo you'd put that in "/etc/chromium/default".

Interesting. Thank you. I sometimes use Chromium over Firefox because the JS performance of Firefox on Linux is really, really bad for some reason. Chrome / Chromium is much better.

[RealNC]

I think my Chromium is also using the NPAPI version.

You need "libpepflashplayer.so" from Chrome, because Chromium doesn't include the proprietary plugins (Flash and a PDF reader). And for Chromium to use it, you need to launch it with "--ppapi-flash-path=/path/to/libpepflashplayer.so". On Gentoo you'd put that in "/etc/chromium/default".

[johnc]

Flash actually works fine in Firefox for me, albeit it isn't the latest version. (But they are pushing out security updates.) And I guess the video acceleration only works for NVIDIA GPUs? Can't say because that's all I use so I wouldn't know any different.

I think my Chromium is also using the NPAPI version.

[entropy]

Someone could write a HTML5-based webapp that runs arbitrary flash pages in an emulator. In fact I wonder why isn't someone doing just that?

AFAIK, Mozilla Shumway is aiming at that.

http://mozilla.github.com/shumway/

[dee.]

Even with a very fast HTML5 adoption there will still be a very huge amount of Flash based content on the web. No one will convert that to HTML5.

Someone could write a HTML5-based webapp that runs arbitrary flash pages in an emulator. In fact I wonder why isn't someone doing just that?

[Vim_User]

I'm waiting for the day when we can finally get rid of flash entirely. HTML5 adoption can't come fast enough.

Even with a very fast HTML5 adoption there will still be a very huge amount of Flash based content on the web. No one will convert that to HTML5.

[dee.]

I'm waiting for the day when we can finally get rid of flash entirely. HTML5 adoption can't come fast enough.

[d2kx]

Yeah what he said. Google Chrome does Flash perfectly fine, forget about the rest.

[RealNC]

If you're using Google Chrome, yes. Acceleration works and CPU usage is low. Google took over Flash maintenance from Adobe on Linux, but that means that you have to use Chrome's PPAPI Flash plugin (comes by default with Chrome). The NPAPI plugin that you install in Firefox and other compatible browsers has been abandoned.

So if you're using Chrome, Flash is good. If you're on another browser, Flash is going to suck for you.

This happens to be the sole reason why I switched from Firefox to Chrome. Firefox is the better browser IMO, but Flash made me change camps.