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Adobe Flash Player 11.2 was released in 2012 which Adobe announced would be the last native version for Linux. This isn't a problem for Google Chrome users as the plugin is built into the browser. Firefox users are left out. However, Adobe does seem to release occasional "security" updates for 11.2 such as a recent update in late 2014Adobe Flash Player 11.2 was released in 2012 which Adobe announced would be the last native version for Linux. This isn't a problem for Google Chrome users as the plugin is built into the browser. Firefox users are left out. However, Adobe does seem to release occasional "security" updates for 11.2 such as an update in late 2014 (11.2.202.425) which corrected a known exploit (Adobe Flash is full of security holes.) Firefox users would have seen a message similar to: Flash Player Plugin on Linux 11.2.202.424 and lower (click-to-play) has been blocked for your protection. HTML5 is an alternative to Adobe Flash that web developers are encouraged to use rather than creating Flash objects. Flash is under the Restricted Formats in Ubuntu. Because of Adobe's anti-competitive and anti-open standards license restrictions on Flash, the people at Ubuntu say they cannot include Flash automatically. This is why "partners" repository has to be enabled. They also want people to consider using one of the open-source Flash player alternatives that will render Flash objects. * Lightspark is available from the project's Launchpad page: https://launchpad.net/lightspark.* Gnash and Swfdec are available as Ubuntu packages from the [https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Repositories/Ubuntu Universe repository].