Re: [Hampshire] Flash Player on Linux

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Author: Philip Stubbs
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To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List
Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Flash Player on Linux
On 2 July 2012 21:03, Chris Dennis <cgdennis@???> wrote:
> Hello Folks
>
> I've just noticed this on the Adobe web page
> (http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/?promoid=BUIGP):
>
> NOTE: Adobe Flash Player 11.2 will be the last version to target
> Linux as a supported platform. Adobe will continue to provide
> security backports to Flash Player 11.2 for Linux.
>
> Is this a problem? Are we better off without Flash Player? What will
> replace it -- HTML5?


They also have no plans to support Android 4.1 and beyond. That is
probably more significant an indication that Flash is going away to be
consigned to history.

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