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Adobe Announces New Flash Player for Linux, but It’s Too Late

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Marius Nestor
Sep 5, 2016

Some of us hardcore Linux users might remember that fact (actually, we will never forget it), that Adobe to the decision to ditch support for its buggy and outdated cross-browser plugin designed to allow users to view various web content written in Flash, such as videos or embedded audio players, or even entire websites. Well, many Linux users were very sorry to hear that the Adobe Flash Player plugin will never be updated again, but guess what? The world evolved, as always, and new technologies are invented to replace the old ones and make our lives much better. That’s why HTML5 replaced Adobe’s Flash more than a year ago.

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Marius Nestor

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