Adobe discontinuous Flash Player for Linux

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dobe has announced plans to discontinue direct downloads of Flash Player for Linux. After all release of Flash Player 11.2 later this year, Linux user who want to view Flash connect will only be able to do it through Google’s chrome browser.

            Adobe announced in its roadmap document that Flash Player 11.2 would be the last native version for Linux. This release will feature mouse lock support, right and middle mouse click support, context menu disabling, support for more hardware accelerated video card in order to expand availability of hardware accelerated content new throttles event API and a multi threaded video decoding pipeline on the desktop.

            For Flash Player releases after 11.2 the flash player browser plug in for Linux will only be available via the paper API under the Google chrome browser distribution. Thereafter t won’t be available as a direct download from Adobe. Adobe will however continue to provide security update to non paper distribution of Flash Player 11.2 on Linux for five years from its release.