On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 3:03 PM, Miles O'Neal <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Adobe quit supporting Linux a while back so the last Flash plugin available is pretty out of date. Between missing features and security concerns, it's gotten to the point that a lot of content providers- and Mozilla- simply no longer support it.

That is not true. Adobe has not stopped supporting GNU/Linux and has
not announced any plans to stop support for GNU/Linux in the future.

The NPAPI Adobe Flash Player plugin for Mozilla Firefox (the
flash-player package from the Adobe repositories) will not have new
major releases but will receive security fixes until March of 2017.

Adobe has still committed to supporting GNU/Linux by moving from NPAPI
to coordinating with Google to release a embedded PPAPI version of
Adobe Flash Player with Google Chrome. Mozilla however refuses to
adopt PPAPI plugins. The real problem is that Mozilla believes that
HTML5 and JavaScript can do everything that plugins currently do,
hence they are refusing to adopt new standards for browser plugins.
Mozilla wants a plugin-free internet. Since NPAPI has security issues,
Google is depreciating support for such plugins in Chrome/Chromium.

The chromium-pepper-flash package which has been posted here is a
version of Adobe Flash Player developed and supported by Adobe for
inclusion with Google Chrome. It looks like the author of the package
has taken the PPAPI from Google Chrome and is re-packaging it for
Mozilla Firefox.

The freshplayerplugin package is a PPAPI to NPAPI converter. This
allows you to use Pepper/PPAPI plugins in browsers like Mozilla
Firefox that only support NPAPI plugins.

These instructions are basically installing the Adobe Flash Player
plugin from Adobe included in Google Chrome for Mozilla Firefox. It is
not a free/libre or open-source Flash player.

Additionally, unless you manually update this package every time there
is an Adobe Flash Player exploit you are putting your computer at
risk.

If you really want to use these packages, you aught to install the
repository so it is automatically updated with the system.

yum -y install epel-release && rpm -Uvh
http://li.nux.ro/download/nux/dextop/el7/x86_64/nux-dextop-release-0-5.el7.nux.noarch.rpm

Brandon Vincent