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I could not agree more. The Linux version was really badly maintained for ages. Circa 2014, I had to do weird stuff like sed on the .so flash plugin to bump a

by kakwa_ 9y ago

I could not agree more. The Linux version was really badly maintained for ages. Circa 2014, I had to do weird stuff like sed on the .so flash plugin to bump artificially its version string from 11 to 12 This was to work around a requirement for VMware VCenter UI which required flash versions newer that the one available for Firefox at that time (11.2 IIRC). I hope that at some points, Adobe will release the Flash source code. It's probably not the most beautiful code in the world, but at least, it would provide a reference implementation and help other implementations a lot.

chungy 9y ago
As much as I personally dislike Flash, I have to agree that making it open source would be a net benefit to the world, even if only for preservation of existing media.
gmmeyer 9y ago
Flash on Linux was discontinued in 2012: http://www.pcworld.com/article/250784/for_flash_on_linux_there_are_open_player_alternatives.html http://www.pcworld.com/article/250784/for_flash_on_linux_the... Even back then you had to do hacks to get it to work. But after that it became very hard to get anything to work. Eventually someone came out with a service called pipelight that I used to use that would allow you to use windows only plugins in Firefox: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pipelight https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pipelight. It worked great until I didn't need it anymore.
- yuhong 9y ago
  They still have it today (it was never truly "discontinued").
  - comex 9y ago
    The NPAPI version (i.e. all browsers but Chrome) was discontinued, but it was un-discontinued last year (after four years of no updates). http://blogs.adobe.com/flashplayer/2016/08/beta-news-flash-player-npapi-for-linux.html http://blogs.adobe.com/flashplayer/2016/08/beta-news-flash-p...
    - yuhong 9y ago
      Yea, and they still had to do security updates for it in the meantime. I guess that is part of why they "un-discontinued" it.
intoverflow2 9y ago
>I hope that at some points, Adobe will release the Flash source code. We can hope but there were big-ish campaigns to get them to open source Freehand and then Fireworks and they just don't care and would rather you keep their monthly CC cheques flowing.

by kakwa_ 9y ago

chungy 9y ago

As much as I personally dislike Flash, I have to agree that making it open source would be a net benefit to the world, even if only for preservation of existing media.

gmmeyer 9y ago

Flash on Linux was discontinued in 2012: http://www.pcworld.com/article/250784/for_flash_on_linux_there_are_open_player_alternatives.html http://www.pcworld.com/article/250784/for_flash_on_linux_the... Even back then you had to do hacks to get it to work. But after that it became very hard to get anything to work. Eventually someone came out with a service called pipelight that I used to use that would allow you to use windows only plugins in Firefox: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pipelight https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pipelight. It worked great until I didn't need it anymore.

yuhong 9y ago
They still have it today (it was never truly "discontinued").
- comex 9y ago
  The NPAPI version (i.e. all browsers but Chrome) was discontinued, but it was un-discontinued last year (after four years of no updates). http://blogs.adobe.com/flashplayer/2016/08/beta-news-flash-player-npapi-for-linux.html http://blogs.adobe.com/flashplayer/2016/08/beta-news-flash-p...
  - yuhong 9y ago
    Yea, and they still had to do security updates for it in the meantime. I guess that is part of why they "un-discontinued" it.

intoverflow2 9y ago

>I hope that at some points, Adobe will release the Flash source code. We can hope but there were big-ish campaigns to get them to open source Freehand and then Fireworks and they just don't care and would rather you keep their monthly CC cheques flowing.