[OpenIndiana-discuss] FlashPlayer 23 NPAPI for Linux comeback

[Мартин Бохниг]

Hello to all who responded to this thread.


> Time to ask an OI hipster :-) release.


Mmmh. Last time it took Adobe about 3 to 4 years until they finally released a new Adobe Acrobat Reader just recompiled for Solaris x86, by 2009.
And at the time Sun's was still there and Solaris (on the Desktop) still a reality and Solaris' OS market share still strong.

As long as Adobe doesn't finally publish the flash-plugin src code, forget Adobe.
It is unlikely they will invest a single $ into anybody porting their latest NPAPI flash plugin from LinUX to Solaris.

BTW, I noticed with the old Flash player 11.x for Solaris that Illumos still didn't properly fix the kernel.
Unlike on OpenSXCE2014.05 on Hipster it is still required to first visit  http://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/ and reload the page 20 times, until most Flash-only sites finally function, even in the flash-enabled gcc compiled FF.

I saw their Flash-plugin Illumos cpu extensions diff last year, but in reality it helps little.


But in modern pretexts that's no longer my problem.
And as Apostolos correctly said: 

https://openindiana.org/pipermail/openindiana-discuss/2016-September/019402.html
<sarcasm>we do not need flash plugins. This is a server OS </sarcasm> (those requiring it to administer remote server consoles should perhaps also switch to Windows 10 *lol*)


%martin




>Среда,  7 сентября 2016, 17:27 UTC от cpforum <cpforum at orange.fr>:
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>Some months ago Adobe claims adopting HTML5 video ... and many sites offer now HTML5 video.
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>In fact it's not true. Look at :
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>https://blogs.adobe.com/flashplayer/2016/08/beta-news-flash-player-npapi-for-linux.html#sthash.zmBvj3cS.3qygoeeI.dpuf
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>http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer.html
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>Time to ask an OI hipster :-) release.
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