linux: opera, flash and plugins

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Adobe released a new version of Flash Player - and triumphantly announces that "this new XEmbed-enabled plugin should work with Opera now."

We achieved great things in tight work with the Flash team - but here they seem to have mixed something up smile

The new Flash version, as mentioned already earlier, does not require XEmbed to run, but a GTK browser - there unfortunately still seems to be confusion about XEmbed and the XEmbed Mozilla extension "spec", which actually has little to do with XEmbed. So much about "standards"…

Obviously, a plugin expecting to run in a GTK browser does not work out-of-the-box in non-GTK browsers… The new Flash plugin is not compatible with the current Opera and Konqueror versions. This means, to put it in simple terms, that Adobe leaves at least 26% of the Linux users (just summing up Konqueror and Opera users) in the dark, forcing them to stick to the old version.

We just released a UNIX plugin milestone snapshot of the upcoming Opera version, allowing not only to run a GTK plugin in a Qt browser, but even going as far as using GTK "to draw directly on the webpage of a Qt browser": Opera and Mozilla are now ready for windowless plugins. Only the plugins are missing now wink

The new GTK Flash Plugin does run out-of-the-box in the latest 9.50 snapshot.

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Comments

Rafał MiłeckiZajec Wednesday, December 5, 2007 7:52:43 AM

Add support for Java and swfdec and I won't say a bad word smile Anyway, great work about supporting libflash :-)

Cyro Wednesday, December 26, 2007 8:30:24 PM

I wonder if their "official" Opera support is for Opera 32bit only.

Zhe Lilinuxcity Saturday, March 22, 2008 10:54:28 PM

The flash plugins make my laotop fan run like crazy in Linux. sad

AmyRose1024 Friday, April 4, 2008 2:51:22 AM

Why does this not surprise me? Everybody loves GNOME and GTK nowadays... sad

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