Interesting question…Time to dump Adobe Flash Player?

Published on July 12, 2015 By DrJBHL In Personal Computing

Turns out Adobe has a known abuot a remote code execution security hole for seven months and not patched it (see ZDNet – not the only site running the story).

They blame MS…see Gregg Kizer’s blog.

I personally don’t give a rat’s toochis who’s guilty…I want it patched (should be out Tuesday, I think)…but that’s not the question.

Should the consumers be exerting pressure on MS and Adobe for this Swiss cheese coding? Should we be dumping Adobe Flash Player?

What do you think?

Comments (Page 1)

MarvinKosh

on Jul 12, 2015

Well, considering that Adobe Flash Player has been patched for vulnerability twice in the space of a couple of weeks, I wouldn't mind seeing it get annihilated from orbit. It's only stuck around for so long because of Flash games.

Daiwa

on Jul 12, 2015

Past time. But it needs to be dumped by web developers; consumers can't do much.

teddybearcholla

on Jul 12, 2015

Problem is, many games use flash player....and some videos. There is nothing else to use, correct?

Heavenfall

on Jul 12, 2015

Dumped that POS about 12 months ago. I think I missed out on a couple of ads on websites, but that's it. Just another leaky backdoor into my system.

kryo

on Jul 12, 2015

Once all video streaming has shifted over to HTML5, they'll have a hard time justifying Flash's continued existence to anyone but the Facebook games crowd. High past time too. Adobe's grasp of secure development is quite possibly the worst of any company with software so widely used.

Heavenfall

on Jul 12, 2015

Are there still video streaming services using flash?

Daiwa

on Jul 12, 2015

Kizer's blog post and the MS patch are from 6 years ago. Is the link wrong?

DrJBHL

on Jul 12, 2015

No, not wrong...still doing the same blaming, though.

Adobe's lack of concern for app security is legendary...and I, like kryo am hoping and praying that HTML5 will take over asafp.

gmc2

on Jul 12, 2015

This site, I believe, still requires flash for uploads.

I watch youtube but have the addon that forces a html5 player

I have flash disabled and has been for many years. Whatever I may be missing is okay with me.

teddybearcholla

on Jul 12, 2015

teddybearcholla

reply 3

Problem is, many games use flash player....and some videos. There is nothing else to use, correct?

Perhaps I ask the question the wrong way?

How does one disable flash player? It seems to be just on my pc....

Adobe Flash Player 17 ActiveX and Adobe Flash Player 18 NPAPI and Adobe Air. Not plug ins in Chrome.

teddybearcholla

on Jul 12, 2015

gmc2

reply 9

I watch youtube but have the addon that forces a html5 player

Greg, where did you get that addon? Do you use Chrome? Thank you.

teddybearcholla

on Jul 12, 2015

And doesn't Steam use flash player?

moshi

on Jul 12, 2015

teddybearcholla

reply 11

Quoting gmc2,

reply 9

I watch youtube but have the addon that forces a html5 player

Greg, where did you get that addon? Do you use Chrome? Thank you.

it's 2015. Steve Jobs killed Flash years ago.

you shouldn't need any addons if your browser is not as old as these necronews, as basically all browsers nowadays use HTML5 by default. check this site to see what your browser does use on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/html5

moshi

on Jul 12, 2015

teddybearcholla

reply 10

Quoting teddybearcholla,

reply 3

Problem is, many games use flash player....and some videos. There is nothing else to use, correct?

Perhaps I ask the question the wrong way?

How does one disable flash player? It seems to be just on my pc....

Adobe Flash Player 17 ActiveX and Adobe Flash Player 18 NPAPI and Adobe Air. Not plug ins in Chrome.

i guess the question is how to disable Flash in Chrome?

enter chrome://plugins in the browser's address bar.

i'd rather recommend to go to Settings -> Advanced Settings -> Privacy -> Content Settings -> Plugins -> Do not run plugins by default

teddybearcholla

on Jul 12, 2015

Thank you so much, moshi!

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