On Mon, 14 Jan 2013, Todd And Margo Chester wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> Over on
>        http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/?promoid=JZEFT
> it states:
>
>      NOTE: 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.
>
> Is not Flash a bit of a security nightmare to start with?
> Or is better if we only get backports?

http://blogs.adobe.com/flashplayer/2012/02/adobe-and-google-partnering-for-flash-player-on-linux.html

   For Flash Player releases after 11.2, the Flash Player browser plugin
   for Linux will only be available via the "Pepper" API as part of the
   Google Chrome browser distribution and will no longer be available
   as a direct download from Adobe. Adobe will continue to provide
   security updates to non-Pepper distributions of Flash Player 11.2
   on Linux for five years from its release.

Basically, Firefox and Chrome have different plugin interfaces
and Adobe have decided to stop developing flash for the Firefox interface 
(on Linux).

As I remember, the Flash security releases for Firefox/Linux
have been more prompt since this policy change than before.
We aren't getting the new features, so there is less to test
and we aren't getting new security holes.

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