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This is priceless http://i.imgur.com/3uNsIF2.png
The final act of HTML5 delusion - it becomes "ready" because we say it's "ready". It's just someone forgot to ask Flash (game) developers' opinion. Not that it matters, right?
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> If you run the popular browsers/plugins against the National Vulnerability Database... That's misusing statistics, you can't determine how secure something is by just summing up the number of vulnerabilities - equally weighing/comparing browsers with a plugin etc. By the way, Apple's opinion on Flash in 2010: Third, there’s reliability, security and performance. Symantec recently highlighted Flash for having one of…
Flash is blocked on Apple devices due to business reasons, nothing more.
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I know but I would be very surprised if the DOM model was entirely responsible for the performance hit.
it is by far the largest preformance drain in pretty much any dynamic website.
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actionscript (the flash programming language) is pretty much the same as javascript, the main reason why flash is often a lot faster than html+js things in a browser is it is not constrained to a slow, broken DOM for building uis.
I know but I would be very surprised if the DOM model was entirely responsible for the performance hit.
Mark from Mozilla here. To be clear, by "blocked" Flash we really mean enforced click-to-activate. User choice is always a #1 priority at Mozilla. We regularly block vulnerable plugins. What made this block different was that we did it before Adobe made an update available. Now that Adobe has released an update, it is no longer true that every version of Flash Player is blocked in Firefox. However, we're glad to see…
When is the formal EOL for Firefox? It's my primary browser, but some people hate it, so just thought I'd ask when the EOL for Firefox is? Flash is never blocked for me in Firefox and never will be. Because a few months back I did this: 1. about:config 2. extensions.blocklist.enabled - 'false' Job done. No more Mozilla annoyances between me and the content I wish to access. And yes, it was an annoyance because the li…
This is some comedy gold.
Mark from Mozilla here. To be clear, by "blocked" Flash we really mean enforced click-to-activate. User choice is always a #1 priority at Mozilla. We regularly block vulnerable plugins. What made this block different was that we did it before Adobe made an update available. Now that Adobe has released an update, it is no longer true that every version of Flash Player is blocked in Firefox. However, we're glad to see…
What made Flash so fast ? was it direct unsafe access to the metal or was there some black magic in their code ?
I think most of the speed as a plugin vs native html/svg/js is that you don't have the whole DOM to deal with (including reflows, etc), and that their ActionScript is a much smaller subset of a language than JS in the browser, AS3 changed things a bit though. Today with canvas and an audio api that mostly works, you can get the same.
What I really wish is that Adobe would create Flash-level tooling with outputs for HTML/canvas/js/web-audio and video.
Enter chrome://plugins/ in your address bar, find "Adobe Flash Player", uncheck "Always allowed to run".
You'll then have to right-click flash content to play it.
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Isn't this like a huge security risk?
Why? Copy FROM clipboard would be, sure. Copy TO clipboard... OK, I can come up with scenarios where it'd be a problem, but they're pretty far-fetched.
Mark from Mozilla here. To be clear, by "blocked" Flash we really mean enforced click-to-activate. User choice is always a #1 priority at Mozilla. We regularly block vulnerable plugins. What made this block different was that we did it before Adobe made an update available. Now that Adobe has released an update, it is no longer true that every version of Flash Player is blocked in Firefox. However, we're glad to see…
When is the formal EOL for Firefox? It's my primary browser, but some people hate it, so just thought I'd ask when the EOL for Firefox is? Flash is never blocked for me in Firefox and never will be. Because a few months back I did this: 1. about:config 2. extensions.blocklist.enabled - 'false' Job done. No more Mozilla annoyances between me and the content I wish to access. And yes, it was an annoyance because the li…