Adobe Discontinues Flash Player For Linux; Will maintain the current version for 5 years

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Adobe today said that it would stop offering direct downloads of Flash Player for Linux, telling users to move to Google's Chrome browser, which bundles Flash with its updates.

Today's demotion of Flash Player on Linux to Chrome-only was the second time in the last three months that Adobe has withdrawn some or all support from a version of the popular media software: In November, Adobe announced it was abandoning development of Flash for mobile browsers, including the new Chrome for Android.

Source: Adobe to Linux users: Get Chrome or forget Flash - Computerworld

Re: Adobe Discontinues Flash Player For Linux

Read about this yesterday. At least they'll maintain the current Flash version. I only need Flash for live streaming anyway. Otherwise Flash is practically a dead horse for me.

same is true for Android. stopped development sometime ago. no support for Android 4.0's successor.

Faster adoption for HTML5?

On Linux mint flash plus Firefox uses too much CPU. I find it hard to watch YouTube.