Firefox 39

[foxidrive]

This version recently arrived - it wants to block Abobe flash all the time, and I just told it to bugger off and let me use it.

I read that someone said to Adobe - that Adobe should state a date in a year or two as the day it should be permanently put to sleep/stop supporting it.

I know that HTML V5 can support media - video/audio - so maybe it will be time to pension it off

Maybe Internet II will be out by then

 

[okeedokee]

Thanks foxi. I just read yesterday that Adobe Flash was a bit sus and I need to use it on Firefox......unless there is an alternative?

 

[foxidrive]

unless there is an alternative?

Nothing that I know of okee. Just keep Adobe up-to-date and backup your entire system with a system image once a week.

If something goes pearshaped then you can restore the full system image from a backup.

How is the Okee family going, btw?

 

[misi]

I just read yesterday that Adobe Flash was a bit sus and I need to use it on Firefox......unless there is an alternative?

Check which version do you have:
https://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player.html

Download and install the newest version.
With Windoze it coming with the updates.

 

[misi]

This version recently arrived - it wants to block Abobe flash all the time, and I just told it to bugger off and let me use it.

Well done!
I still use 38.5

 

[Megabyte]

Firefox blocked all flash temporairly, until a new update came out. Now that's available it's not blocked. The latest is 18.0.0.209

I have version 39 too

 

[foxidrive]

Thanks Meg, I thought I was up to date.

I've set flash player in control panel to notify me, that'll fix it's little red wagon!

 

[misi]

On Thursday, Mozilla revealed a vulnerability in its browser that was discovered by a Firefox user. An ad on an unnamed news site in Russia was able to tap into the vulnerability to upload certain files from a user's computer to a server apparently based in the Ukraine. Exploiting Firefox's PDF Viewer and its use of the widespread JavaScript code, the hack seems to capture only "developer focused" files -- think FTP (file transfer protocol) -- at least in Windows. Your personal files and data aren't caught in the attack, but the hack is still alarming.

Has the world grown weary of security hacks and exploits at this point? Each day, those who browse the Web or use Windows or Adobe Flash or numerous other products seem to face yet another security worry. Even the Mac OS, which has long held a reputation as being secure, isn't immune. Software is imperfect, and hackers are always going to find a way to exploit certain weaknesses. So what do we do? Protect our computers with security software. Be careful of where we go and what we do on the Internet. Hope that vendors quickly find and fix the vulnerabilities. And Mozilla had done just that.

Released on Thursday, the latest version of Firefox -- version 39.0.3 -- contains a fix for the security hole. Mozilla is urging all Firefox users to upgrade to this latest version.

 

[TeeEm]

39.0.3

 

[foxidrive]

So what do we do? Protect our computers with security software. Be careful of where we go and what we do on the Internet.

That's not going to help if some flaw allows your personal documents and sexts to be taken by force and put out in the wild.

 

[Megabyte]

Released on Thursday, the latest version of Firefox -- version 39.0.3 -- contains a fix for the security hole. Mozilla is urging all Firefox users to upgrade to this latest version.

I got the update flag for ff today So I'm up-to-date...for now!