Google, Adobe Team To SImplify Flash Player Software
There is Microsoft’s Windows and theres’s Apple’s OS X. Plus, don’t forget the many different flavors of Linux.
Adobe and Google haven’t forgotten.
Today, the two companies announced that they’re developing a single, modern API (Application Programming Interface) for hosting software plug-ins within a Web browser. They’re calling this new software PPAPI (or “Pepper”).
What it means is that the next version (11.2) of Adobe’s Flash Player will soon arrive “built-in” to Google’s Chrome Web Browser for the Linux operating system. that also means future versions of Flash Player will come with future upgraded versions of the Linux Chrome browser.
Flash Player will continue to support browsers using non-”Pepper” plug-in APIs on platforms other than Linux.
Adobe will continue to provide security updates to non-Pepper distributions of Flash Player 11.2 on Linux for five years from its release.
