Quoting Trent W. Buck (trentbuck@gmail.com):
Wen Lin via luv-talk wrote:
Recently a friend of mine asked me a question: "I just got a message that ADOBE Flash is no longer available free of charge in 2021. Does the Ubuntu system have any equivalent Flash Player so that I can continue to watch videos on Facebook etc?"
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Last time I looked, Google (not Adobe) had 100% responsibility of ongoing maintenance of the browser flash plugin for chrome/chromium, at least on GNU/Linux.
Google's implementation is called Pepper Flash. People determined to have a Flash interpreter in Chromium can find instructions about how to do so, getting the Pepper Flash thing. E.g., Debian has it as package pepperflashplugin-nonfree .
Chrome/chromium do not ship with flash built in....
Last I heard, Google Chrome has always preinstalled Pepper Flash. People wanting a Flash extension on Firefox for Linux can, I suppose, install the GNU gnash or Lightspark or swfdec plugins(?). Not tried, didn't care enough to, glad the thing's dying. Might be too old for new-ish Firefox given the browser's EOLing of old extensions and such. I don't think NSAPI plugins have been discussed much since around 2012 or so. ;-> -- Cheers, "Like looking both ways before crossing the street, and Rick Moen then getting hit by a submarine." -- Clarke Smith, age 9, rick@linuxmafia.com winner of Washington Post's contest for best description McQ! (4x80) of the year 2020 in a single word or phrase.