Glad to help, Chris. Flash is long, long past its "use-by" date and really
needs to go. This is actually (at least) the second push to get rid of, I
believe.
On Sat, Jul 18, 2015 at 7:45 AM ChrisB <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Thanks for that, Scott.
>
> I had thought that the BBC site would use only Flash for its video play,
> but in fact there is a conversion to HTML5 play in my Safari extension,
> ClicktoPlugin. I disabled Flash and now the videos play with the converter
> (killers/Flash.js, or something).
>
> Chris
>
> > On 18 Jul 2015, at 15:26, Scott Gomez <sgomez.baja@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > What many of you might well find is that flash is not necessary at all.
> > Most of the popular sites have made it possible to do most everything one
> > could need using only an HTML 5 compliant browser. Check your browser's
> > settings to see if there is an option to turn off flash without actually
> > removing it. If so, turn it off, try it awhile, and see if you can
> already
> > get along without it.
> >
> > On Sat, Jul 18, 2015 at 6:58 AM Chris Trask <christrask@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:christrask@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>>
> > wrote:
> >
> >>>
> >>> Browser companies (Google, Mozilla) have lately been calling for the
> >> death of
> >>> Flash since it's such a flawed security risk. No word from Adobe yet,
> but
> >> the
> >>> anti-Flash sentiment is growing rapidly.
> >>>
> >>
> >> I looked into an alternative from GNU, but it would not install.
> >>
> >>
> >> Chris
> >>
> >> When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro
> >> - Hunter S. Thompson
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