Firefox & outdated adobe flash

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VectraMan replied

13 February 2015, 10:10
Originally posted by rl4engc View Post

Can't understand why Flash is still the 'defacto' technology for video, it's proprietary unsecure tulip.

It's not. Lots of things use video tags, or for the likes of YouTube they use either.

Why is Flash "proprietary unsecure tulip" whereas Google Chrome, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Apple Safari (and/or whatever other browser you're using) isn't? At least with Flash you don't need to worry about browser differences.
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rl4engc replied

12 February 2015, 17:09
Can't understand why Flash is still the 'defacto' technology for video, it's proprietary unsecure tulip.

Even clicked a link on BBC "We're trialing our new video technology, click here to try it." only to be confronted with the "This Flash Plugin is out of date".

Thought HTML5 was supposed to be our saviour?
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Boo replied

11 February 2015, 18:27
Originally posted by Boo View Post

How did you resolve it ?

To answer my own question :

Open about:config and set extensions.blocklist.enabled to false.

This disables all obnoxious ood plugin prompting forever. Hooray!

Boo

Last edited by Boo; 11 February 2015, 18:51.
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Boo replied

9 February 2015, 18:46
Originally posted by BolshieBastard View Post

Anyway, the issue has now been resolved so thanks for the suggestions.

How did you resolve it ?

Boo
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BolshieBastard replied

9 February 2015, 11:35
Well Id love not to need flash but a lot of websites still use it. Not only is it crashing web pages but also slowing down access. Yes, I could avoid those sites but they are ones I need to visit.

Anyway, the issue has now been resolved so thanks for the suggestions.
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VectraMan replied

9 February 2015, 10:22
Originally posted by eek View Post

ftfy. Why on earth you would let that badly written pile of tulip on your computer... Its one of those occasions where Steve Jobs was 100% right. Only let programs you are in control off have absolute access to the internet.

Yep, Firefox is a bit tulip.
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eek replied

8 February 2015, 18:01
Originally posted by TykeMerc View Post

Tried the obvious uninstall Flash?

ftfy. Why on earth you would let that badly written pile of tulip on your computer... Its one of those occasions where Steve Jobs was 100% right. Only let programs you are in control off have absolute access to the internet.
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TykeMerc replied

8 February 2015, 13:06
Originally posted by BolshieBastard View Post

Can anyone help with this?

I regularly update the free firefox browser. For the last 2 or 3 weeks, Ive been getting the message Firefox has blocked the outdated adobe flash, do you want to ignore \ accept?

This crops up on many websites. Ive downloaded the latest version of flash but am still getting the same message.

Anything else I can do to fix this?

Tried the obvious uninstall Flash and do a fresh install?
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BolshieBastard started a topic Firefox & outdated adobe flash

8 February 2015, 11:37
Firefox & outdated adobe flash

Can anyone help with this?

I regularly update the free firefox browser. For the last 2 or 3 weeks, Ive been getting the message Firefox has blocked the outdated adobe flash, do you want to ignore \ accept?

This crops up on many websites. Ive downloaded the latest version of flash but am still getting the same message.

Anything else I can do to fix this?
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