Firefox blocks Flash, and Facebook calls for its death

[streetwolf]

Firefox blocks Flash, and Facebook calls for its death - Jul. 14, 2015

Flash still wfm. What gives?

[therube]

So tell us, what version of Flash are you running?
Is your blocklist.xml current?
(Do a search in there for "18.0.0.203".)

[Xetmes]

Old news, old Flash

[streetwolf]

So they just blocked 203? I'm running 209.

[Xetmes]

209 is fixed version, but who knows what can jump out in next few weeks.

[streetwolf]

Flash never has a 'fixed' version.

[Xetmes]

True, but You know what I mean

[James]

Adobe Flash Player 18.0.0.203 and earlier versions for Windows and Macintosh

Adobe Flash Player Extended Support Release version 13.0.0.302 and earlier 13.x versions for Windows and Macintosh

Adobe Flash Player Extended Support Release version 11.2.202.481 and earlier 11.x versions for Linux

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/blocked/

However there is no update for Linux yet from Adobe.

[mattcoz]

Interesting... my blocklist is from the 12th so it isn't blocked yet. My update interval is set at 1 day, so it should have updated by now.

[Mouse5]

i rather like the fact that its Disabled by default, stops Video's playing instantly but it also affects small Vids people post on Twitter also, so thats handy

iv'e never really understood adobe by going to number after another when they make a new flash version, why adobe just dont do what there doing with Linux Flash Player an thats just adding Patches to an existing Flashplayer

[James]

iv'e never really understood adobe by going to number after another when they make a new flash version, why adobe just dont do what there doing with Linux Flash Player an thats just adding Patches to an existing Flashplayer

Adobe does have a Flash Player 13.0 ESR version if you scroll further down https://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/distribution3.html for Windows and Mac OSX.

[Mouse5]

iv'e never really understood adobe by going to number after another when they make a new flash version, why adobe just dont do what there doing with Linux Flash Player an thats just adding Patches to an existing Flashplayer

Adobe does have a Flash Player 13.0 ESR version if you scroll further down https://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/distribution3.html for Windows and Mac OSX.

never noticed that before, but given that they do havbe a ESR, why continue with the newer versions 17, 18 , 19 an so on , adobe need to get there act together an just support the one an thats the ESR one with patches