Minor Vivaldi 1.4 Browser Update Makes Adobe Pepper Flash Work Better on Linux

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  • Post Updated: April 3, 2024

Today, November 8, 2016, Vivaldi’s Ruarí Ødegaard was proud to inform the community about the immediate availability of a minor update to the Vivaldi 1.4 web browser for Linux-based operating systems.

In other words, the Vivaldi 1.4.589.41 stable update is now available, and it appears to have been released only for GNU/Linux platforms, including Ubuntu/Debian 64- and 32-bit distributions, as well as RPM-based OSes. The update adds a patch to make Adobe Flash work for more users with different configurations by changing the locations the browser searches for the Adobe Pepper Flash (PPAPI) plugin.

“We have updated Vivaldi 1.4 for Linux to change the locations we search for the Adobe Pepper (PPAPI) plugin. This ensures Flash works for even more of you,” said Ruarí Ødegaard, Linux QA and Testing at Vivaldi in the blog announcement. “This update is only for Linux … (read more)

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