Comment 67 for bug 865672

I agree that Adobe Flash Player is a semi-abandod piece of software, but
it will take years before Flash will be completely gone from the
internet. Maybe it will take 15 years. Everybody knows that ie6's
lifetime was way too long. Some functionality provided by Flash is not
supported by other techniques, like video conferencing. It will take
years before other techniques will be mainstream to support this and
flash will be the only way to provide cross-browser, cross-platform
video conference (webcam and audio) support. Flash is too important on
the internet at the moment to have such a big bug in linux. I have
developed a chat site and the only way to support webcam chat with audio
is using flash. On linux this is always problematic and going to the
global settings just isn't a good solution.

On 11/15/2012 01:39 AM, Robert Charlton wrote:
> Robert Zelic, that's odd. I you sure it's not a problem specific to
> yourself? If it isn't, I think we'll need a whole other bug report just
> for adobe-flash-plugin. Then again, IMO, we should be focusing on open
> source alternatives rather than try to bandage this semi-abandoned piece
> of software.
>