A lot of people do not know any alternatives to the Adobe flash player. Well there is an alternative and it is completely open source: it is Gnash, the GNU flash movie player ( website ). It exists in various flavours for Linux and even for Windows. For example Gnash works on 64 bit Linux (for quite a while now).

Since it is possible that Adobe will ‘update’ their flash software and Gnash will update theirs to keep them in sync, it is likely that you will get stuck with an older version of Gnash and that some flash enabled sites will stop working. The newer Gnash version would ship with the next Ubuntu release or with a backport to the current release. If you can not wait and want the update earlier you could try the gnash firefox plugin . Other downloads can be found at the original Gnash project page or at the getgnash website.