Due to vulnerabilities in Flash player Mozilla has disabled flash plug-ins from running the highly insecure crapwarez known as flash player. It is up to the users disxcretion if he/she actually wants to run the crapware.
Meanwhile I have always hated flash player with a burning passion. If I want to view You Toob videos I can simply use VLC and/or plenty of better players that are available.
I keep my 2 feet on the ground, and my head in the twilight zone.
Flas just updated the player to close the vulnerabilleties.
"If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop
telling the truth about them." - Adlai Stevenson (1900-1965)
“I’m not liberal/conservative, I’m anti-idiotarian.”
At some point in the last 20 years, the left moved to the center, and the right moved into a mental institution
Flash has been losing it's spark lately. WTF, I thought HTML 5 and stuff was gonna take over...
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of knowledge to the nipples of ignorance?" ~ Professor "Dick" Soloman
It will, but it's taking way longer than anyone hoped.Originally Posted by WØTKX
Flash has been losing it's spark lately. WTF, I thought HTML 5 and stuff was gonna take over...
All the world’s a stage, but obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce.
I hope it happens soon. The sooner flash player is finally laid to rest the better. :)
I keep my 2 feet on the ground, and my head in the twilight zone.
I don't know about that. Flash has many good qualities and has many satisfied users over the years it has been used.
I think you're jumping to conclusions and defaming Flash when it's really not that bad at all!
Maybe so but there are several good alternatives to Flash without the vulnerabilities. At the very least I'll say that Mozilla has done the right thing for its user base.
I keep my 2 feet on the ground, and my head in the twilight zone.
I downloaded the latest version and it's still disabled in Firefox. But that's probably a Firefox thang that will be changedin the next Firefox update... provided that Adobe has actually removed the vulnerabilities.
I keep my 2 feet on the ground, and my head in the twilight zone.
I have to agree with John on this one—Flash is bad news. It's buggy and a continual source of security breaches, but it's worst sin is that it's proprietary. That's the antithesis of what the Intertoobs is supposed to be all about. And because Adobe is the sole provider, it's expensive, too. Price the software required to develop full range of Flash apps sometime; you'll be appalled.
Last edited by NQ6U; 07-14-2015 at 08:02 PM.
All the world’s a stage, but obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce.
Damn, Carl.
I thought you'd catch the irony of my post...
Think contrary...
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