Just noticed in Firefox 39.0-1 preferences an entry "Flash video". In the drop down menu next to it, "Use mplayerplug-in is now gecko-mediaplayer 1.0.9 (in Firefox)" is selected. Gecko-mediaplayer 1.0.9-1, Build Date: Tue 27 May 2014 is installed. I could uninstall gecko-mediaplayer, but quite a few things in Firefox preferences in (other than "Flash video") seem to be set up to use it also. So, unless I want to lose a lot of functionality in Firefox (and mplayer 37379-3, and elsewhere?), should I just switch the menu selection in Firefox to "Always ask"? Or is there a better idea? On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 11:32 AM, Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, 16 Jul 2015 12:20:48 -0400, Daniel Micay wrote: > >On 16/07/15 12:06 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > >> > http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jul/14/facebook-end-adobe-flash-firefox-blocks-hacking > > > >Mozilla blocked the vulnerable version, as they've done in the past. > >The current release isn't blocked because there aren't yet disclosed > >security vulnerabilities. > > > >Google bundles the PPAPI Flash player with Chrome so they don't need a > >comparable blacklist as it gets updated with the browser. > > That's not why I posted this link. I posted it regarding the > quote of Facebook’s head of security Alex Stamos: > > "It is time for Adobe to announce the end-of-life date for Flash and to > ask the browsers to set killbits on the same day." >
