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

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how "Temporarily" is temporarialy

Bob

On Fri, 17 Jul 2015, Kumaresan.C.S wrote:

> Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2015 00:36:08 +0530
> From: Kumaresan.C.S <cskumaresan at gmail.com>
> Reply-To: Kubuntu user technical support <kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> To: Kubuntu user technical support <kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Subject: Re: Any alternative for the Firefox plug-in 'Adobe Flash Player'?
> 
> We are committed to protecting our users from security risks. That's why –
> following an Adobe alert about critical vulnerabilities – we temporarily
> blocked #Flash in Firefox. :- Mozilla Firefox Team
>
> http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-33520935
>
> On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 12:16 AM, O. Sinclair <o.sinclair at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 16/07/2015 17:12, 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?
>>>
>>
>> Btw the only alternative I know of is Gnash (Gnu Flash Player) but I
>> have never used it myself and have no idea of how good/bad it is
>>
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> Kumaresan C.S
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