Adobe and Google destroy Flash Player for Linux platforms

Feb 22, 2012 12:23 GMT  ·  By

Yeah, like the title says, it looks like Adobe made a partnership agreement with Google to develop a Flash Player plugin ONLY for the Google Chrome web browser.

This will happen sometime later this year, when the Flash Player downloads for the Linux platform will be completely removed from Adobe's website.

"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." - said Adobe in the blog announcement.

This is sad (read: very sad) news, as Flash Player will no longer be available in any Linux distribution, unless the user runs Google Chrome (preinstalled or not).

Let's hope major browser vendors like Mozilla and Opera will implement support for Pepper-style plugins in their products.

Thanks Google and Adobe, for nothing!