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Has a company ever gone this route before?
Companies used to require IE a lot back in the late 90s and early 00s, if that counts.
I'd be really curious to see some numbers on how successful this has been for them.
Cheaper than re-engineering their enterprise web facing app I guess. Sad.
I wonder if this is a color of money thing. Are the management team attributing that $5 to IT to paint them as being an even bigger cost center and shame them into catching up with to 10's? I can't wrap my head around this.
Cheaper than re-engineering their enterprise web facing app I guess. Sad.
There are plenty of people on machines without good flash support, various mobile devices and odd browsers. There are tech savvy people who know flash is an entry vector for viruses. Then there are people who just can't figure out how to install it.
5 years ago I would have believed the loss in that column of the ledge would be smaller than rewriting an app. Today, recreating the app should be cheaper than ever and more people have already moved on from flash. 5 years from now this will be example of some kind, I think it will be an example of how not to hold onto dying tech.
Ha. No thanks. If I go to use FedEx and flash is required I'm just going to use a different carrier. They are just delaying the inevitable. I bet there's some higher-ups at FedEx who still like flash and refuse to give it up.
I suspect this is just a delaying action - a vain attempt to retain some of their web order volume - while they frantically write the replacement for their Flash component.
The instructions should at least limit the "always allow" to the fedex sites. Pretty bad advice to always allow globally.
Cue a day of my weekend spent fixing a dead laptop.
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100 $ is a lot of money...you can probably handle flash just for FedEx I bet. Though you're probably right. They'll have an updated version asap.
Literally not worth the time or loss in trust. I don't use anything closed source on most of my machines (without proper sandingboxing). The main machine I have with closed source software gets only one credit card, with a low limit and that is for steam. I would be setting up VM for this. More likely I would just call and get what I need or switch carriers.
I sincerely hope that FedEx fails. I once bought the book "FreeBSD Kernel Internals" from informit. They sent it through FedEx. I payed the shipping costs in the informit site, as standard procedure. The book passed through customs fine, then FedEx hold it and told me they would not deliver the book unless i paid them 50EUR. This is their current and common practice here in Portugal. Fsck them.
If you are using Chrome on a desktop or laptop: Open a new tab in your Chrome browser. Type “chrome:plugins” in your URL address field. Under Adobe Flash Player click the checkbox next to Always allowed to run. If doing this gets your box hacked, are they providing PC repair services?
Users would enable flash to watch the video, because that's what users do, and then it'll be enabled for the rest of checkout.