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posted by janrinok on Saturday December 31 2016, @11:15AM   Printer-friendly
from the not-quite-so-flash dept.

Back in August Adobe reversed its decision to stop offering an NPAPI Flash plugin for Linux and promised that version 23 would come Penguinistas' way real soon now.

At the time the decision was greeted with surprise, because Adobe had not thought to update Flash for Linux since 2012's version 11.2. But the company decided that Linux users deserved a security upgrade to the infamously hole-ridden product.

It turns out the company fibbed, because it's now delivered version 24 of the plugin to Linux users, making this a thirteen-version jump between releases*.

That's the same version number offered to Windows and Mac users, but the new Linux version lacks features found on those other platforms. Linux users willing to put up with almost-certainly-insecure** will therefore have to put up with missing 3D acceleration from GPUs.


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  • (Score: 2) by RamiK on Saturday December 31 2016, @11:52AM

    by RamiK (1813) on Saturday December 31 2016, @11:52AM (#447819)

    Last month's 11 branch update followed this [adobe.com].

    I suspect if this latest issue [adobe.com] wasn't discovered so soon, Adobe might have postponed the 11.2.202.644 -> 24.0.0.186 switch until they got GPU acceleration working.

    Mind you, non of this changes the fact Flash is trash and you shouldn't be running it.

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  • (Score: 2) by tisI on Saturday December 31 2016, @04:16PM

    by tisI (5866) on Saturday December 31 2016, @04:16PM (#447871)

    Yeah, now that flash is being phased out off internet use.

    None of my *nix boxes run anything adobe anyway. Who cares.
    Just another outdated greedy corporation dying out and gasping for breath.

    Until the Donald makes them employ more Americans and that will be the end of them.

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