Craig Sanders <cas@taz.net.au> writes:
instead, i installed Chromium, the open-source version of google chrome. this has an updated flash player built-in (newer than the stand-alone linux version which works with firefox).
I ship chromium (& pepper flash[0]) to inmates. To the best of my knowledge: 1. Adobe does not maintain Adobe Flash on Linux. AT ALL. That means no security updates. 2. Google *does* maintain Adobe Flash on Linux *in Chrome*. Firefox/Iceweasel doesn't benefit, because it uses NaCl (google) rather than nsapi (netscape) plugin architecture. This is called "pepper flash", presumably because NaCl => table salt. 3. Chromium *does not* include pepper flash, at least on Debian, because it is still closed-source proprietary software. 4. pepperflashplugin-nonfree is in Debian nonfree; it downloads the *whole* non-free chrome deb, picks out the flash.so & gives it to chromium. 5. Chromium cannot be compiled with Debian 7's GCC (4.6) anymore, and nobody even *thinks* about backporting for GUI browsers. That means no security updates for chromium on Debian 7. [0] because an educator uses echo360 to distribute lecture videos, and echo360 can't do HTML5 video. I can't even get test access to see if gnash or vlc will suffice. Sigh.