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The question is: why do you need flash?
(A serious question: it's been a while since I've actually used a site that relied on flash)
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Because every second site that has a video I'm interested in watching insists on serving my desktop browser a flash video instead of html5. 
I don't know if their PHBs are trying to pretend mobile doesn't exist at all; or just that all desktop users will have flash so always serve that up for them. Either way, they're still too common for me to exile flash to an ancillary browser. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Ah. Right.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Or differently put:
Flash is a reason to not use a site.
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I would if I could. Sadly flash video is still to ubiquitous to for me to do so.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Perhaps you should stop viewing so much pr0n. 
Decrease the belief in God, and you increase the numbers of those who wish to play at being God by being “society’s supervisors,” who deny the existence of divine standards, but are very serious about imposing their own standards on society.-Neal A. Maxwell
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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~2/3rds of the offending sites are local news (tv or newspaper) sites. If they'd get their stuff together I might actually get to the point where I could exile flash to an auxiliary browser.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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True. A local news site where I live only just recently stopped using flash.
Decrease the belief in God, and you increase the numbers of those who wish to play at being God by being “society’s supervisors,” who deny the existence of divine standards, but are very serious about imposing their own standards on society.-Neal A. Maxwell
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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At least for the tv stations I can hope that at some point in the medium term future someone in the ABC/CBS/FOX/NBC headquarters will force their affiliates to upgrade; that'd cut somewhere around a third of my residual flash use.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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One can hope. But event some of their postings still use flash. Go figure.
Decrease the belief in God, and you increase the numbers of those who wish to play at being God by being “society’s supervisors,” who deny the existence of divine standards, but are very serious about imposing their own standards on society.-Neal A. Maxwell
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Hmmm. Interesting, since I've assumed that the plug-in that Chrome keeps warning me about was Flash. Almost every site I visit produces the warning that it uses a plug-in that will soon be unsupported. I wonder what it is?
Will Rogers never met me.
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It probably is Flash; it's the only plugin left with non-trivial general website usage (assuming you (or worse your ISP) don't have crapware trying to inject sliverblight/quicktime ads into every page anyhow). Google banned flash ads[^] at the start of the month. If for some reason you were still using the Netscape Plugin API[^] version of flash instead of the built in one, they support for it off on Tuesday too.
Not being a Chrome user, that'd be my first guess; but I wouldn't put it past Google to blight all pages with a nag, even if using their blessed version of the plugin.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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I heard that Flash would be disabled by default, but auto-enabled when you go to Privacy mode...
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Dan Neely wrote: will I have trouble running flash
Yes.
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Care to elaborate? Mike Diack is running it without any issues.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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I missed the joke icon. I meant troubles as in "Updates (almost) constantly nagging you, not mentioning the security holes".
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Flash 19 64 bit works well with 64 bit Firefox. I'm running 64 bit Firefox 40.0.02 with Flash 19.0.0.162 (a beta build) and it works well for video etc (it runs under the control of plugin-container.exe). It's been stable for me for months now on Windows 7, 8.1 and Windows 10 systems.
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Good to hear. I'll be running it on 8.1 or 10 depending on when I get around to upgrading it. Maybe 7 if I decide to force a manual update at work. (The geniuses block regular updates of FF for 'compatibility' reasons but ignore the bug fix only LTS builds; so I'm generally out of date and vulnerable to being pwned there. Their funeral, not mine.)
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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More like caffeine o'clock.
... and depending on my mood it'd be Scotch or Bourbon o'clock.
In a mutually beneficial arrangement, I've given Nagy my lifetime share of gin.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Thanks. I would be much more grateful if it wasn't for the fact that it consisted of a half bottle [probably opened sometime around 1987] and for some bizarre reason a slice of dried banana.
veni bibi saltavi
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I knew I lost a banana chip on my first day of school. No clue how it ended up there though.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Flash is still too widely used for video to avoid. 
So the question is, will I have trouble running flash in FF42-x64.
