[Discuss] [RANT] Firefox and Flash 11.2

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

In some cases this is a nice feature because many ads have flash.and
this is a nice way to block them.

On 12/25/2014 08:24 AM, Stuart Brorson wrote:
> I view this as a feature.  It means that heavily flash-laden web pages
> don't bog my machine down with mindless crap videos anymore.  On those
> rare occasions when I actually want to see something distributed as
> flash, then I can turn it on.  I now have more control over my
> computer -- what's not to like about that?
>
> Stuart
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> On Thu, 25 Dec 2014, Jerry Feldman wrote:
>
>> We all know that Adobe is no longer producing Flash plugins newer than
>> 11.2 for NPAPI. The latest version for Linux is 11.2.202.425. They are
>> still updating it for security issues. However, recently I am getting
>> blocking messages in Firefox, so for each page there is a flash I have
>> to allow it. Also, in managing vSphere, one of the servers requires
>> Flash 11.5. On the positive note Google Chrome uses the Pepper Plugin
>> Interface, and does have the newer flash plugin, so in the case of
>> vSphere, I can use Chrome. But, I tend to prefer Firefox.
>>
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