Adobe not providing linux flash updates

[Kelly Miller]

Is mentioning third party repositories okay on the users list?

Anyway, AFAICS, you don't need to install Chrome or Chromium to get Pepper
Flash; the RPM for it doesn't seem to have Chromium as a requirement.
Obviously, if you install Google's copy of Chrome, then you get Pepper
Flash with it...

On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 3:29 PM, Stephen Morris <samorris at netspace.net.au>
wrote:

> On 02/11/2015 12:24 AM, Kelly Miller wrote:
>
>> You could grab the Fresh Player Plugin as well, which allows Firefox to
>> use Chrome's Pepper Flash plugin (which is up to date).
>>
> I haven't heard of that before, where would I find it? Am I also correct
> in assuming that for the usage of Chrome's plugin (which I also wasn't
> aware of because I thought flash support was built in to chrome) that
> Chrome must also be installed?
>
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 4:44 PM, Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com
>> <mailto:rgm at htt-consult.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     www.cnn.com <http://www.cnn.com> is telling me that my version of
>>     flash-player is out of date with security risks so it won't
>>     display any video news.  Go and update your flash player.
>>
>>     On this F21 system I am using:
>>
>>     adobe-linux-x86_64.repo
>>
>>     which has in it:
>>
>>     baseurl=http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/linux/x86_64/
>>
>>     yum.log shows:
>>
>>     Jan 19 18:08:31 Updated: flash-plugin-11.2.202.429-release.x86_64
>>     Jan 26 08:51:24 Updated: flash-plugin-11.2.202.440-release.x86_64
>>
>>     So supposedly I am current to Jan 26.  But cnn is not a happy
>>     camper.  There have been a couple other sites complaining as well.
>>     Even one that said my version of Firefox was out of date, but that
>>     was only a warning.
>>
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