Firefox has prevented the unsafe plugin "Adobe Flash" from running on (website)
I have been getting this for a little over a week now. Flash and Firefox are both as up to date as possible. What's going on?
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All current versions of flash are now on the live blocklist due to new found Vulnerability.
So no way around it then? or does this just apply to Firefox?
Sidharth Bhandari (Rubin) said
All current versions of flash are now on the live blocklist due to new found Vulnerability.
So no way around it then? or does this just apply to Firefox?
You can flash alternatives like unity web player,gnash and lightspark till the fix.
hi, firefox only blocks versions of flash with serious security vulnerabilites which are actively exploited in the wild. there is a new version of flash that got released today - in order to stay save, please update flash from http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/distribution3.html (for firefox use the .exe installer for "plugin-based" browsers)
from http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/distribution3.html: Note: Flash Player 11.2 is the last supported Flash Player version for Linux OS. Which means that 18.0.0.. will not work on Linux. True? Actually, I am just trying to play music on Amazon.com, no videos or games. So I do not understand why I have to mess with Adobe Flash.
Hi TurtleP, are you running Linux? That page does now have an update for Linux (from .481 to .491 on the version number). You have to scroll down past the table with Windows/Mac versions to get to the Linux table.
TurtleP said
from http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/distribution3.html: Note: Flash Player 11.2 is the last supported Flash Player version for Linux OS. Which means that 18.0.0.. will not work on Linux. True? Actually, I am just trying to play music on Amazon.com, no videos or games. So I do not understand why I have to mess with Adobe Flash.
The "Flash Player 11.2 is the last supported" comment means it is the last branch of Flash they are supporting on Linux. They do still support Linux version of 11.2 ESR with security/stability fixes.
The more drastic option is to try and get freshplayerplugin with (libfreshwrapper-pepperflash.so) plugin to use the Pepper Flash from Chrome in Firefox/SeaMonkey.
Okulungisiwe ngu James
jscher2000 said
Hi TurtleP, are you running Linux? That page does now have an update for Linux (from .481 to .491 on the version number). You have to scroll down past the table with Windows/Mac versions to get to the Linux table.
jscher2000, thanks. Yes I am running Linux. When I scroll down to the Linux table it lists the old version which is being blocked.
Thanks James. Would you guide me to where I can get “ Linux version of 11.2 ESR with security/stability fixes”? Also, any thoughts as to why I have to mess with Adobe Flash to just play music on Amazon prime? I can download an mp3 file and it plays fine. This is probably a question I should direct to (and have directed at) Amazon. Thanks for your help.
TurtleP said
jscher2000, thanks. Yes I am running Linux. When I scroll down to the Linux table it lists the old version which is being blocked.
Hmm, it looked to me like it was up to .491 today instead of .481 (definitely .481 is blocked). ??