For your TECH Ping list.
Thanks. For later.
Sweet. Flash is such an unstable pig. And each version is worse. Adobe is one of the worst software companies on the planet, their success is a tragedy.
This is a good thing.
Flash is a security problem and will always be so.
Slash the flash ping.
Set your Flash plug-in to “Ask To Activate” on all your browsers. In addition to the security hazards, Flash uses cookies that are very hard to control, and uses up bandwidth downloading content you generally don’t want to see anyway.
One immediate problem, alas, with this move to HTML5 is that HTML5 videos download and play automatically, and I haven’t figured out an easy way to control that (in FireFox, it appears that a lot of about:config hacking is needed).
I’m glad they are doing this.
Adobe’s software has been so full of security holes, it has to update CONSTANTLY is seems. Flash wasn’t nearly as bad for that when Macromedia was in charge of it, but that was ‘forever’ ago.
Anything from Adobe has about turned into Bloatware. Not as bad as it was, but not much better. Anyone remember that damn slow “FEAD Installer” that the Adobe PDF Reader used a few years ago? lol That thing was HORRIBLE!!!
If it was any slower, you’d want to start it up before going to bed at night!
I find it silly for Apple and Microsoft to complain about monopolistic practices out of Adobe. We all know damn well if either of these companies had become the industry standard, they would have bundled the software and put little zingers in it to prevent you from copying or modifying the content.
I’m not thrilled with Flash either but this is like monopolies fighting over who gets to hold you hostage.
I work in the video streaming business. We make appliances in the back end that produce multi-stream, multi-bitrate output for various playback devices, e.g., TV, PC, tablets, smartphones. However, we have ZERO customers requesting support for Adobe Flash, even thought we support it.
My Real Player Plus hasn’t been able to download from Youtube for several months, so this does not come as a surprise.
Only one problem: if you’re running Internet Explorer 11.0 or Firefox 35.0.1 under Windows 7, YouTube still defaults to Adobe Flash 12.0.0.296 (the current version) because IE and Firefox does not support the VP9 video codec used by Google for HTML 5.0 video streaming.
MalwareBytes is constantly catching bugs delivered in Adobe updates.
“iPad users who can’t receive Flash content that Apple has blocked.”
If this is the case then Apple sucks and needs to be put
on the shelf with GM as companies “undeserving” to operate
in America.
Good.
I frickin hate Flash.
It is a resource hog and for some reason keeps stacking itself and bloating memory resources as you watch successive videos.
Only way to reduce its footprint in memory is to completely crash it and dump it out of resources.
.724 would be a better alternative.
Great! Flash is a royal PITA! All it gives me is ! !
Adobe can jump in the lake...anything that unhooks us from their broken updating and popup reminders is good good news.