Firefox was blocking unsafe flash extensions for at least 6 months as far as i remmeber. the only difference now is that there actually is no "safe" update from Adobe for almost a week, making it blocked even for people that keep flash up to date.
Im glad to see flash is being phased out, flash was horrible, always. even back in "ye olde days" there were better alternatives to flash, as much as unpopular they were. im happy to finally see flash come to an end.
gigastar said:
Like hell im turning Flash off. Cant watch anime or youtube nor can i do anything on Newgrounds.
You dont need flash for youtube. in fact right now you have to use scripts to force youtube to run in flash because it defaults to HTML5 and gives you no option (though the flash player is still there if you force it via scripts). Though it was flipped to HTML5 this year so maybe you werent aware yet?
mikozero said:
This site really needs to move to HTML5 or whatever tbh. the writing is on the wall.
You can watch youtube without flash gigastar.
Find out how to switch to HTML5 version. a lot of the time it actually works better for me.
Youtube is HTML5 by default now and there is no option to switch to flash anymore. you can still force it via scripts if you want.
This site is moving to HTML5. just look at the new video player. The ads however, well, escapist does not control ad companies. its on them to move it.
Anti-American Eagle said:
Past is the past, corporate future is now? No. This is stupid. Flash is fine. Everything has security problems in one way or another and outright killing a longstanding program which things will continue to rely upon due to them being abandoned, is stupid.
A newer, shinier flash is probably the future but continuity is needed. Upgrade and patch flash, but upgrade from existing code so it's nice and compatible and stays recognizable as flash.
Flash is not fine. flash was never fine. HTML5 is as far from corporate future as you can get, considering its an open standard. Flash and javascript were always the main culprits of security problems. them and Java, though most people dont have Java installed anymore. HTML5 does what both of those do, better.
Noone "killed" flash. all it takes is pressing a single button and it will load that flash whatever you are using. it just doesnt auto-load for unsecure versions.
no, flash is not the future. Its sad that it lasted as long as it did.
Soviet Heavy said:
Well that explains why I had to re-allow Flash on every website. If you want to kill it, Mozilla, fine, but at least provide an alternative before fucking over my video watching.
There has been an alternative for years. its called HTML5. Its vastly superior.