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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

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

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

People are starting to wonder about the newest Flash Player plug-in not working in Opera. Just a quick update to this:

The new Flash plug-in is not implementing XEmbed, but the XEmbed Mozilla extension "spec" (well, it isn't really a spec) - it is actually a GTK plug-in trying to run its GTK main loop in the Opera (Xt) pluginwrapper: obviously this will not work The new Flash plug-in is not backwards compatible - it is not working in current versions of Konqueror and Opera, but only in Firefox.

We are looking into it. Stay tuned