adobe flash updates

[raymond]

On 2017-03-25 01:54 PM, Bob Jonkman wrote:
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> Raymond, what sites are you browsing that still deliver that "update
> Flash" message?
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> I haven't had Flash installed in years, and most video sites work
> fine. The exceptions are CBC and CTV news. For that I have a separate
> media computer, on which I run Google Chrome. That doesn't use Adobe
> Flash, but its own built-in Pepperpot Flash (at least, that's what it
> used to be called).
>
> I don't know if Adobe will maintain their new-found love for Linux,
> but if Flash on Windows is anything to go by, even up-to-date Flash
> installations are a major source of vulnerabilities. If I were you I'd
> uninstall every Flash component, and use Google Chrome only when I
> absolutely have to.
>
> - --Bob.
>
>
> On 2017-03-25 01:42 PM, JP wrote:
>> I take it back. Adobe is now giving security-only updates to the
>> NPAPI plugin that Firefox uses, after 4 years of being ignored.
>> Chrome has newer flash built in, so that would be a better option
>> than updating flash for Firefox.
>> http://www.pcworld.com/article/3116409/linux/adobe-revives-flash-for-firefox-on-linux-after-axing-it-four-years-ago.amp.html
>>
>>   On 25 March 2017 13:34:02 GMT-04:00, raymond
>> <raymondh40 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On 2017-03-25 01:31 PM, JP wrote:
>>>> Flash for Linux is dead. Thankfully. Adobe isn't doing updates,
>>>> and hasn't for a long time, leaving vulnerabilities unpatched.
>>>> It's time for the world to move on.
>>>>
>>>> On 25 March 2017 13:28:52 GMT-04:00, raymond
>>>> <raymondh40 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hello all, I'm having trouble opening videos on web pages and
>>>> I keep getting: adobe flash needs to be updated and is
>>>> vulnerable.I'm using ubuntu 1610 and I'm not getting updates
>>>> for flash, I know there's been a lot said about flash but where
>>>> are
>>> we
>>>> with all this? do we have a replacement? I keep trying to
>>>> update it as they recommend but it does not work.Confused about
>>>> it all, need help from you knowledgeable types out there.
>>>> Thanks
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my
>>>> brevity. so JP, how do I open videos?
>>>>
>>>>
>>
>>
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> Hi, Bob, I'm trying to open a video on CBC.


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