Any alternative for the Firefox plug-in 'Adobe Flash Player'?

[Jerry Lapham]

On Thursday, July 16, 2015 05:12:51 PM Bas Roufs wrote:
> Hello Everybody,
> 
> 
> ever since a few days, the Firefox plug in 'Adobe Flash Player' is causing
> problems. When visiting Facebook or any other website with video content, I
> get information like this:
> 
> 
> *'Firefox has prevented the unsafe plugin 'Adobe Flash' from running on
> www.facebook.com <http://www.facebook.com>.'*
> When clicking for more info, I arrive at this page:
> https://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/
> 
> A page from where it is apparently possible to download a newer? version of
> this plug-in. However, I prefer to use some flash package from one of the
> regular repositories.
> 
> At that page, Adobe writes the following:
> 
> *'(...) Adobe Flash Player 11.2 will be the last version to target Linux as
> a supported platform. Adobe will continue to provide security backports to
> Flash Player 11.2 for Linux.(...)'.*
> 
> To be honest, if Adobe does not continue any more development of his flash
> player for Linux, I would prefer using some alternative that continues to
> be maintained and developed. Do you know any alternative with a similar
> functionality, allowing me to get rid of Adobe Flash Player?
> 
> Respectfully yours,
> Bas G. Roufs.

I just got an automatic update today for Adobe Flash Player plug-in for 
Kubuntu 14.04 LTS.

	-Jerry
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