[ale] stupid firefox/flash combo

Jim Kinney jim.kinney at gmail.com
Sat Feb 14 09:12:49 EST 2015


That's looking like an option.
On Feb 14, 2015 9:07 AM, "Beddingfield, Allen" <allen at ua.edu> wrote:

> I have just ended up using Chromium + Pepper Flash for anything that
> requires Flash, and Firefox for everything else...  Firefox is much more
> stable without Flash, anyway.
> --
> Allen Beddingfield
> Systems Engineer
> The University of Alabama
>
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> Subject: [ale] stupid firefox/flash combo
>
> So firefox now will block and outdated flash binary from running. Nice!
> However, the flash binary is as current as Adobe offers on Linux. The
> binary has strings claiming it to be the latest 11.x.x.x.442 but Firefox
> _STILL_ says it's 11.x.x.x.440.
>
> I've removed all flash plugins and install from adobe yum, installed
> from adobe rpm. Both deliver a version claiming to be 442 but firefox
> still says it's 440. I can't tell whose at fault here.
>
> Not that I'm missing the pile of flash ads on slashdot.
> --
> James P. Kinney III
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