Transparent Flash on Linux: finally!

Finally! Adobe launched Flash Player with real transparency for Linux. For years we saw opaque backgrounds where there should be transparency, while Windows and Mac had complete visual effects.

I tested it here and transparency is working 100%. I found some bugs with specific animations, but the basics work perfectly. Now you can put HTML over Flash, alpha effects work, and sites that were previously broken on Linux are normal.

To install just download from labs.adobe.com, extract libflashplayer.so and copy to ~/.mozilla/plugins/. It’s a significant victory for those who use Linux as main desktop, removing one of the last barriers to complete web experience.