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Firefox blocks Flash, and Facebook calls for its death
CNN.com ^ | 7/14/15 | CNN Money

Posted on 07/15/2015 5:35:14 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo

Adobe Flash, the much-loathed, bug-plagued relic of a browser plugin, just got a big nail driven into its coffin.

Mozilla blocked Flash by default in its Firefox browser late Monday night, a day after Facebook's (FB, Tech30) security chief called for Adobe to kill Flash once and for all.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: adobe; flash; windowspinglist
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To: nascarnation
Youtube is one, unfortunately.

Youtube has been on a multi-year project to transcode all of their videos to non-Flash format. They have an opt-in page. It's time to freeze Flash out!

41 posted on 07/17/2015 2:37:05 AM PDT by cynwoody
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

Wishes for a speedy recovery! :)


42 posted on 07/17/2015 4:20:19 AM PDT by PistolPaknMama
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

Is Flash the culprit of the dreaded green screen when I play a video? I go through the steps of fixing this, then if I update anything at all on my computer, I go back to the dang green screen.


43 posted on 07/17/2015 4:21:50 AM PDT by PistolPaknMama
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Thanks. Turns out that it’s a bug in Flash that is affecting IE, corporate wide. They’re doing some patch right now. For the short term we are being encouraged to used Firefox or Chrome.


44 posted on 07/21/2015 3:12:14 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (FR NEEDS YOUR DONATION!)
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