Linux version of Chromium will drop NPAPI support in April

https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!msg/chromium-dev/xEbgvWE7wMk/D_07G2lftacJ

... and therefore earlier than originally planned.

This means that Chromium will not support the Adobe flash-plugin (running under NPAPI) anymore, and so far Adobe does not offer a separat PPAPI version of this plugin.

As a consequence, if you still want/have to use flash, you have two options:

1. Switch to Chrome which contains a PPAPI flash plugin.
2. Find a PPA that offers a PPAPI version of flash - I remember there was one but I'm not sure if it's still maintained.

Above remarks apply, e.g., to Ubuntu users. There are other distros that offer Chromium with PPAPI flash.

EDIT: The ppa is here. I haven't tried it, though.

 

No biggie, Ubuntu/Debian has a pepper flash installer for Chromium.
https://wiki.debian.org/PepperFlashPlayer
http://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/pepperflashplugin-nonfree

 

Time to replace Adobe Flash with Pepper Flash on Chromium, which I thought was Chrome-only.

*Pepper Flash performance is inferior, especially on YouTube of all places. Rolling back.

 

Thanks! I wasn't aware if this package as it doesn't exist in Saucy.

 

Looks like it should it in Trusty though and I suspect there will be backports.