Bow_In_Honor Posted July 14, 2015 Posted July 14, 2015 (edited) Taken from the article. "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. The Flash-bashing picked up last week after revelations that the spyware giant known as the Hacking Team had been using Flash to remotely take over people's computers and infect them with malware. (That discovery took place after the Hacking Team was itself hacked. Documents revealed in the breach showed that the Hacking Team exploited two critical vulnerabilities in Flash's code.) "It is time for Adobe to announce the end-of-life date for Flash," tweeted Facebook security chief Alex Stamos on Sunday. Mozilla's support chief Mark Schmidt quickly followed suit by tweeting that all versions of Flash had been turned off in Firefox. That means Firefox users will not be able to turn on the plug-in to access Flash content -- they'll have to seek out another browser if they need to use Flash." http://money.cnn.com/2015/07/14/technology/flash-firefox-facebook/ Edited July 14, 2015 by Bow_In_Honor 2 Quote
Krayzie Posted July 14, 2015 Posted July 14, 2015 Hmmm. Facebook tweets? Something doesnt add up 1 Quote
SiD Posted July 14, 2015 Posted July 14, 2015 Was wondering why everything was asking for permission. f***ing annoyance. Google chrome, here I come! 1 Quote
Bow_In_Honor Posted July 14, 2015 Author Posted July 14, 2015 (edited) Was wondering why everything was asking for permission. f***ing annoyance. Google chrome, here I come! But..but..but SiD.. The security vulnerabilities. D: /s Edited July 14, 2015 by Bow_In_Honor Quote
ajnl Posted July 14, 2015 Posted July 14, 2015 I may not have liked Steve Jobs, but he knew what he was talking about when it came to flash: "So we try to pick things that are in their spring, So we have a history of doing that, we went from the 5-inch floppy disk to the 3.5 inch with the Mac and sometimes when we get rid of things like the floppy disk drive on the original iMac, people call us crazy. But sometimes you have to pick the things that look like the right horses to ride going forward. And Flash looks like a technology that had its day, but is waning. And HTML5 looks like the technology that is on the ascendancy now." - In June 2010 at the D8 conference, Jobs elaborated on why the iPad and iPhone would never support Adobe's Flash. YouTube June 1, 2010. link 3 Quote
Administrators daredevil Posted July 14, 2015 Administrators Posted July 14, 2015 f*** yeah! Flash gone! Quote
Gengis Posted July 14, 2015 Posted July 14, 2015 Flash is annoying. Go with Safari. Google chrome ? Never Internet explorer ? What do you think ? Gengis Quote
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