Any alternative for the Firefox plug-in 'Adobe Flash Player'?

[O. Sinclair]

On 16/07/2015 17:12, Bas Roufs wrote:
> Hello Everybody,
> 
> 
> ever since a few days, the Firefox plug in 'Adobe Flash Player' is
> causing problems. When visiting Facebook or any other website with video
> content, I get information like this:
> 
> /'Firefox has prevented the unsafe plugin 'Adobe Flash' from running on
> www.facebook.com <http://www.facebook.com>.'
> /
> When clicking for more info, I arrive at this page:
> https://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/
> 
> A page from where it is apparently possible to download a newer? version
> of this plug-in. However, I prefer to use some flash package from one of
> the regular repositories.
> 
> At that page, Adobe writes the following:
> 
> /'(...) Adobe Flash Player 11.2 will be the last version to target Linux
> as a supported platform. Adobe will continue to provide security
> backports to Flash Player 11.2 for Linux.(...)'./
> 
> To be honest, if Adobe does not continue any more development of his
> flash player for Linux, I would prefer using some alternative that
> continues to be maintained and developed. Do you know any alternative
> with a similar functionality, allowing me to get rid of Adobe Flash Player?
> 

Btw the only alternative I know of is Gnash (Gnu Flash Player) but I
have never used it myself and have no idea of how good/bad it is