Serious question: why are people still using Flash? I'm surprised by the number of websites that use it.
What websites use it? I've not encountered a single incompatible website recently, and haven't had flash installed for a long time now.
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#14Serious question: why are people still using Flash? I'm surprised by the number of websites that use it.
What websites use it? I've not encountered a single incompatible website recently, and haven't had flash installed for a long time now.
FB is using it a lot. For videos, for uploading pictures.
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#15Serious question: why are people still using Flash? I'm surprised by the number of websites that use it.
What websites use it? I've not encountered a single incompatible website recently, and haven't had flash installed for a long time now.
Facebook's inline video player uses it. On linux, I get a popup saying that I must install Flash.
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#16guess it's time to disable flash for a few weeks...
A significant portion of the web using community (including myself) stopped using flash 6-12 months ago, when all the zero-days became a monthly occurrence. The plugin is no longer strategic for adobe, they've stopped any forward-looking development on it, and are now in the mode of whack-a-mole reactive security patching. I have not once every missed having flash on my system. It's not just the case that the web is…
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#17Is there any Flash security bug recently which makes it outside the Chrome sandbox?
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What websites use it? I've not encountered a single incompatible website recently, and haven't had flash installed for a long time now.
Facebook's inline video player uses it. On linux, I get a popup saying that I must install Flash.
In Safari on OS X, Facebook does use the native player.
I'm guessing that Facebook encodes video h264 which isn't natively supported in Firefox; rather it relies on support in the operating system. I'm not sure if Chrome on Linux supports h264, however since Chrome also includes its own Flash player I guess that Facebook may be using their own flash player anyway.
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#19Serious question: why are people still using Flash? I'm surprised by the number of websites that use it.
What websites use it? I've not encountered a single incompatible website recently, and haven't had flash installed for a long time now.
Good question. There were some I had to use Chrome to view (espn, cnn, facebook-- somebody) and I was quite surprised.