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Facebook's New Chief Security Officer Wants To Set a Date To Kill Flash
An anonymous reader writes: Facebook's new chief security officer, Alex Stamos, has stated publicly that he wants to see Adobe end Flash. This weekend Stamos tweeted: "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. Even if 18 months from now, one set date is the only way to disentangle the dependencies and upgrade the whole ecosystem at once."
Hell, VMware just released vsphere 6 a few months ago and it requires flash, it will be under support until 2020/2022 .
There are 4 boxes to use in the defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, ammo. Use in that order. Starting now.
Too many internet pages rely on Flash for video and advertisements... and,as much as we hate them, advertisements means money...
I'm not saying that progress isn't being made. Youtube dropped Flash this year and is now using HTML5 as the default for video, but that doesn't fix legacy videos.
http://www.theverge.com/2015/1...
My thought is that Flash will be around for another 3 to 5 years. The quoted "18 months" is just wishful thinking....
A lot of the content (like Homestar Runner and Weebl's Stuff) is also available via their official YouTube channels. You lose all the interactivity, though.
Rendering the video to pixels and compressing it with H.264 or VP8 bloats files by a factor of ten in my tests. The era of dial-up is mostly over, but the era of monthly quotas and pay-per-bit last miles is still very much with us.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/watch-with-mpv/
I need bbc news video clip support though as bbc news web developer basically suck at there jobs. They push HTML5 video for iPads which don't support Adobe Flash, but output a message telling everybody else who doesn't have Adobe Flash installed to install it. I DON'T want to f'ing install it you idiots. I like the Gardian better, but they've got fewer articles. The Gardian does appear to do HTML5 by default too.
That's better than VMWare 5.5, which required it's own NPAPI plugin, which barely worked with an old version of Chrome on Linux, and doesn't work with any distro you can just spin up. As a cross-platform management solution, it was dead before it was born.
Worse is Chinese no-name security DVRs that are still being deployed, that require an activex plugin.
Yep. Chrome is the only way to get modern Flash under Linux. The old NPAPI plugin is stuck at version 11.2 and only gets security updates. The PPAPI plugin is already at version 18.0.