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Firefox blocks [Adobe] Flash, and Facebook calls for its death
« on: July 14, 2015, 07:04:35 pm »
Firefox blocks Flash, and Facebook calls for its death

Adobe Flash, the much-loathed, bug-plagued relic of a browser plugin, just got a big nail driven into its coffin.

Mozilla blocked Flash by default in its Firefox browser late Monday night, a day after Facebook's (FB, Tech30) security chief called for Adobe to kill Flash once and for all.

The Flash-bashing picked up last week after revelations that the spyware giant known as the Hacking Team had been using Flash to remotely take over people's computers and infect them with malware. (That discovery took place after the Hacking Team was itself hacked. Documents revealed in the breach showed that the Hacking Team exploited two critical vulnerabilities in Flash's code.)

"It is time for Adobe to announce the end-of-life date for Flash," tweeted Facebook security chief Alex Stamos on Sunday.

Mozilla's support chief Mark Schmidt quickly followed suit by tweeting that all versions of Flash had been turned off in Firefox. That means Firefox users will not be able to turn on the plug-in to access Flash content -- they'll have to seek out another browser if they need to use Flash.

more at:   http://money.cnn.com/2015/07/14/technology/flash-firefox-facebook/

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Re: Firefox blocks [Adobe] Flash, and Facebook calls for its death
« Reply #1 on: July 14, 2015, 07:16:38 pm »
I guess that explains why I had to reinstall it. With all its problems, there are still a lot of web based business apps out there that aren't HTML5 compatible yet so Flash is a necessity.
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Re: Firefox blocks [Adobe] Flash, and Facebook calls for its death
« Reply #2 on: July 14, 2015, 08:24:37 pm »
Quote from: AbaraXas on July 14, 2015, 07:16:38 pm
I guess that explains why I had to reinstall it. With all its problems, there are still a lot of web based business apps out there that aren't HTML5 compatible yet so Flash is a necessity.

I recently installed Bitdefender on my system, which is rated #1 for Windows protection.

After running the program, I immediately was prompted to install Flash....again.   

Of course, not knowing any better, I did.  I found that a simple YouTube video would no longer stream fluidly.

After seeing this article, I uninstalled it.  We'll see how it goes.....
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