Adobe Announces Plans To Abandon Flash On Linux

[johnc]

Give me a break, what a fucking hyperbole. Adobe did not announce any plans to "abandon Flash on Linux". They want to phase out the old plugin API, over the course of 5 years.

I can only recommend everyone to use adblock on Phoronix. Michael does not deserve any money for bullshit like this.

Yeah my takeaway from the announcement is proof that -- yet again -- Linux is ahead of the game when compared to other platforms. Adobe has been saying for some time now that Flash is going the way of the dodo bird and will eventually be phased out and replaced by other technologies. So once again the next tech will be already running on Linux while the Windows XP folks struggle with Flash for the next decade.

[bug77]

I'd be happy is Java was dropped too. We have HTML5 and Javascript to get most things done. If there's anything lacking then it should be added the HTML or JS or the browser backbone tot he system.

What's Java got to do with anything?

[cl333r]

Bad/sensationalist title, Adobe isn't abandoning Linux, it's moving to a new architecture and not supporting the old one on Linux, not to mention they'll support 11.2 for a few years, after which a life without flash will be quite plausible. Youtube already switches to HTML5 when viewing some videos without asking me (and no, I haven't joined the youtube HTML5 trial).

So things aren't nearly as bad as the title implies.

[LLStarks]

This is terrible.

HTML5 is not ready to do live streaming video.

[johnc]

Compare to Engadget's coverage.

[ninez]

It sounds like in the short to mid-term this isn't going to be an issue, as they plan to still support 11.2 for some time. (which is good since i use Firefox).

Hopefully over the next year or two video streaming sites will switch to HTML5, and drop Flash. I'd also like to see them drop DivX too.

At this point, while it is great that youtube supports HTML5, most video streaming sites do NOT - so Adobe Flash still has some value and use in this regard, for me and others i am sure.

bye bye Adobe, your a bunch of dicks who won't port the Creative Suite or even Photoshop, anyway ~ so F U all. LOL.

[DeepDayze]

Hopefully, this is just a sign that flash is on it's way out.

Regardless, it sounds like flash 11.2 will be maintained for quite a while - so at least i can stick with flash in Firefox, for now. Hopefully, by the time it becomes a problem, either A) flash will be less popular or B) mozilla or alternate flash implementation will be in place.

So 5 years should be enough time for all the Flash alternatives to become mature and rock-stable and its at least a good thing Adobe will provide security updates during that time.

[ua=42]

Michael... Since flash will be on it's way out... you should get rid of the flash ads and replace them with images or text ads! (I've had flash disabled for a while.. and usually only 1 ad in 5 will show up on your site with flash disabled) or at least get it so that it can detect if flash is enabled or not and replace the adds with text ones if flash isn't available.

[uid313]

I am not so read up on this, but as I understand it Pepper is more secure and portable than NPAPI.
So I think Mozilla should implement Pepper, since that would make sense.

Flash has a history of multiple security vulnerabilities, so if using Pepper instead of NPAPI makes it more secure, then that makes sense.


It is very sad to hear that Adobe will stop making Flash for Linux, especially since they finnally got it to 64-bit.
Why is this? Is it because they thought hardware acceleration was tricky with VDPAU, VA-API, and dozen of other APIs?

[DanL]

Michael... Since flash will be on it's way out... you should get rid of the flash ads and replace them with images or text ads! (I've had flash disabled for a while.. and usually only 1 ad in 5 will show up on your site with flash disabled) or at least get it so that it can detect if flash is enabled or not and replace the adds with text ones if flash isn't available.

He doesn't have direct control over the ads..