The Campaign Against Adobe Flash and the Counterattack

Posted by Dart on Nov 18, 2011 4:28 PM EDT
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Last week a group of people came together to launch a website 'Occupy Flash' and started a campaign against Adobe Flash plugin.Identities of these people are not known and they have no corporate backing but they have said the Goal of this campaign is to see Flash plugin dead on desktop browsers and they want everyone to uninstall it. There is another group of Flash developers that is not happy with this campaign and as a counterattack launched Occupy HTML campaign. As far as Linux is concerned, Flash support is not as good as other platforms but it has certainly improved greatly over the years and 64bit support was added recently as well. Still there are lots of problems like frequent crashes and CPU hogging. Ironically, the Occupy Flash campaign does not even list Linux as a platform for Flash and provide uninstallation instructions for Windows and Mac only.

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