This is good news for Flash, but it does make me sad. Not because it means Flash will continue to be around, but because I really don't like Chrome on Linux.<p>Don't get me wrong, I love Chrome. I use it on Windows all the time. But Linux has this little niggle I can't stand with default browser behavior: Firefox calls it "browser.urlbar.clickSelectsAll". And Firefox allows you to change that to true or false.<p>I'm not often changing small bits of a URL; when I click the URL bar it's for the specific intent of removing what is there and replacing it with something completely different. I understand the arguments for both use cases. Firefox does as well. The Chrome developers don't. In searching their bug tracker, you find the Chrome guys don't consider this a bug [1] (it's really not) but worse yet, don't plan on having the option to change this behavior. That's poor customer service, and inconsistent with Chrome on Windows. When I switch between OSes as often as I do, the last thing I want to worry about is how my browser will behave on this machine vs that one.<p>So now if/when I want to use Flash, I have to switch from Firefox to Chrome. When I'm done using Flash, I have to switch back. Google, please... please don't tell me about your keyboard shortcuts, don't tell me to click three times, don't tell me to click and drag... if you're making me use your browser, let me use it the way I want to. The way it works on Windows or even in Firefox.<p>[1] <a href="https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=26140" rel="nofollow">https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=26140</a>
This is exactly why relying on plugins and closed-source components for the web is dangerous. Adobe can just decide to stop supporting a platform (Linux), and only companies partnering with Adobe (Google) get to keep using Flash.
Does that include a fix for the smurf bug?<p><a href="https://bugbase.adobe.com/index.cfm?event=bug&id=3109467" rel="nofollow">https://bugbase.adobe.com/index.cfm?event=bug&id=3109467</a><p>Unfortunatelly, the last and final release of Adobe Flash for Linux has a bug, which shuffles the colors in Youtube videos. So far it seemed they never fix that.
Phoronix is currently down, but there wasn't much to this story to begin with:<p><a href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:www.phoronix.com/vr.php%3Fview%3DMTEyNzc&hl=en&prmd=imvns&strip=1" rel="nofollow">http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:www.pho...</a><p><i>Google's Chrome web-browser reached version 20 yesterday and for Linux users this marks the point that the web company has taken over Flash Player support on Linux from Adobe using its PPAPI implementation.<p>As shared back in February, Adobe is abandoning support for Flash Player on Linux. However, they are allowing Google to continue the Flash Linux support via a PPAPI (Pepper) plug-in, which right now is a plug-in API only implemented by the Chrome/Chromium web-browser.<p>In March Adobe pushed out the last major Linux update meanwhile today with Chrome 20 we have the Google-maintained Flash by default for Linux x86 and x86_64 users.<p>The Google Chrome 20 release announcement can be found on their blog, but it's not too exciting. Aside from supporting the new Flash implementation for Linux users, there's bug-fixes and the usual round of other enhancements.</i>
Crossing my fingers that Chromium will stop finally yelling at me about my outdated* Flash.<p>*While providing a helpful link to solutions that don't work.
For what its worth, I have an Nvidia card and am running Ubuntu 12.04: Chrome's Flash plugin does not work very well on the latest dev build; it has some weird issue with playing flash at double speed or something. I had to switch back to Adobe's flash plugin until this issue is resolved... This could potentially be hardware specific in my case, but, just wanted to let others know that Adobe's plugin still works.
Google is so invested in Flash at this point. Why don't they just take over/buy "Flash" with it's engineers from Adobe? Probably hard to separate them from the Air team and all the other "products" from Adobe.