On 29/12/20 11:01 am, Trent W. Buck via luv-talk wrote:
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.
No, Chrome ships it, but Adobe maintain it (mostly, there's some weirdness around the plugin interface).
Chrome/chromium do not ship with flash built in, but they *do* (did?) download it from google.com into a per-user $HOME area. Assuming the user was allowed to talk to google, of course.
Chrome ships it in the browser, I don't believe they've bothered to split it out, but it has been disabled by default for a while. By the time splitting it out would have made sense they were planning the sunset anyway.
Firefox users had a third-party hack to download the chromium blob (from google.com), which IIRC broke at least once due to Google changing what API it used (this was back before firefox went webext).
Last I cared there was still the NPAPI file for FireFox (and in my case back then, Opera), by the time webext FF came about I'd not needed flash in my main browser for a while.
Stand-alone players (inc. AIR) were dropped when Adobe abandoned (linux) flash on Google's doorstep, because Google couldn't monetize that either.
Er, no. AIR was dropped for everyone a long time ago, unrelated.