Flash

[Tim Hanson]

On Friday, April 12, 2013 09:31:43 am Felix Miata wrote:
> On 2013-04-12 09:18 (GMT-0700) Tim Hanson composed:
> > This is BS.  This morning an "update fail" message informed me that I can
> > no longer rent and stream movies from Amazon.  The reason is that the
> > service attempted to update Flash player, and Adobe is no longer
> > updating its Linux version.  Soon others who use SWF to deliver content
> > will no doubt require a version of the plug-in not available on Linux,
> > leaving us marginalized and out in the cold.
> > 
> > Complain all you want about Flash, it is used to offer most streaming
> > content on the web.  Lack of access to Flash will severely hamper the
> > use of Ubuntu commercially.
> 
> Have you not seen what Adobe had to say on the subject? Content providers
> are urged to replace Flash content with HTML5 content. Flash is a
> usability nightmare. Complain to Amazon and anyone else that isn't getting
> with the evolution. Flash must die.
> 
> If you must have Flash, use Google's Linux browser version with Flash built
> in. I keep 5-6 different browsers open full time. Only one is allowed
> access to Flash, and I don't use it for much else, or much at all.

I know about the deficiencies of Flash.

I downloaded Chrome (I have been using Chromium) and, unfortunately came up 
with the answer.  The current SWF added DRM, and Amazon uses it.  Chrome 
doesn't support it yet.  I'll watch on my tablet.