Six Months Without Adobe Flash, and I Feel Fine

Posted by timothy on Sunday February 10, 2013 @04:28AM from the alternatives-emerge-in-a-wait-no dept.

Reader hessian six months ago de-installed the Adobe Flash player on all of his browsers, probably a prudent move in light of various recent vulnerabilities. "This provoked some shock and incredulity from others. After all, Flash has been an essential content interpreter for over a decade. It filled the gap between an underdeveloped JavaScript and the need for media content like animation, video and so on." But it turns out that life sans Flash can still be worth living. Are there things you rely on that make Flash hard to give up?

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Live without Java by Anonymous Coward · 2013-02-10 04:34 · Score: -1, Redundant

I've felt the same way about a far worse application: Java.
Many years ago my network was infected by a virus... which was spread through Java by an infected machine. After that, I realized Java is nothing more than a virus delivery system, and have never allowed it on my networks.
I had to use Java for a class, so it was running on a non-networked machine.