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Adobe issues emergency Flash fix

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Re: Adobe issues emergency Flash fix

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Post by abrowne »

I uninstalled Flash a few months ago and don't miss it. I mostly use Firefox, but I do keep Chrome around, so I could use Chrome's Flash if I wanted to, but I don't think I have so far.

The only site I commonly visit that doesn't work is BBC News, funnily enough. It's a little annoying because it will work if I change the user agent to iPad, but instead I just don't watch BBC News videos.

Re: Adobe issues emergency Flash fix

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Post by ghshephard »

I haven't had Flash Installed on my primary system for 12+ months, and, I absolutely don't miss it. Ironically, the BBC news is one of the very, very few places that seems to use Flash for Video - so it's probably the only site that I'm ever impacted on.

Re: Adobe issues emergency Flash fix

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Post by darklajid »

Emergency fix? To update to the latest McAfee I assume?

I'm sorry for the snark, but bbc reporting without details about Flash - including the helpful 'Flash is a commonly used browser plug-in' subtext below the logo - seems a bit off around here?

Re: Adobe issues emergency Flash fix

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Post by yalogin »

abrowne wrote: post #3

I uninstalled Flash a few months ago and don't miss it. I mostly use Firefox, but I do keep Chrome around, so I could use Chrome's Flash if I wanted to, but I don't think I have so far. The only site I commonly visit that doesn't work is BBC News, funnily enough. It's a little annoying because it will work if I change the user agent to iPad, but instead I just don't watch BBC News videos.

So Chrome has their own flash written by engineers at Google?
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