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OP is blog spam of this post: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2015/06/emergency-patch-for-adob... Which is highlighting this security release from Tuesday: https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb1...
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?
http://www.pcworld.com/article/250455/for_flash_on_linux_chr...
> Adobe and Google have now created a “Pepper” implementation of Flash Player for all x86/64 platforms supported by the Google Chrome browser, Adobe said.
OP is blog spam of this post: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2015/06/emergency-patch-for-adob... Which is highlighting this security release from Tuesday: https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb1...
The BBC is blog spam? Or did the mods change the link without telling us?
Edit: in response to TazeTSchnitzel to whom I cannot reply. If BBC included a link to the original post or the actual security advisory I would be less likely to call it blog spam, but I stand by my classification. It is a repost without the sources and with less information (notably a warning to users about the McAfee opt out among other things).
Earlier quoted context omitted.
The BBC is blog spam? Or did the mods change the link without telling us?
The BBC is blog spam yes. It quotes Kreb's article, which happens to be almost exactly the same, except BBC removed links to the advisory, etc. Edit: in response to TazeTSchnitzel to whom I cannot reply. If BBC included a link to the original post or the actual security advisory I would be less likely to call it blog spam, but I stand by my classification. It is a repost without the sources and with less information…
It must be such a weight around Adobe's neck, supporting Flash as it dies. I pity the guy who's job it is to maintain it indefinitely.
Flash will get a second life with WebAssembly.
This should be a wake-up call to make flash non-default and, if installed, click-to-play only. Its time we started treating it like Java. Like Java, its clear its owner can't secure it. I imagine its borderline unmaintainable spaghetti code at this point.
Its also very hypocritical of Google, who has taken issue with SSL encryption levels and NPAPI, to be bundling what's essentially the second largest malware vector in browser history, only behind Java. This SHOULD be our wake-up call.
Open Firefox and navigate to about:config.
You will be sarcastically warned that you about to void your warranty, just click on the “I’ll be careful, I promise!” button to move on.
Now search for:
plugins.click_to_play
Once you are done restart Firefox.
To test it out, head over to a site with Flash (BBC, ironically, has Flash), you will notice you will have to click on the plugin to activate it.
That’s all there is to it.
I'm sure there's a similar method for Chrome, but I don't have it installed to test.