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Security
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The new year hasn't been a pleasant one for Adobe: the Silicon Valley firm has scrambled to close yet more serious security holes in its Flash player. Last week the Photoshop biz rushed out a patch for a critical flaw in Flash that miscreants were exploiting in the wild to hijack victims' computers. Today, a new update has …
Like most people my instinctive feeling about anything from Adobe is that it's probably a kludge of twenty-year old source code and some flimsy hacked-together OS abstraction layer that is guaranteed to be at least ten times slower than the native alternatives. But is that just prejudice?
Not that it matters. Now that Netflix streams without plugins to both IE and Safari I'm sans-Flash. That was the last thing.
I guess (OK, you should never assume or guess) that the only way it can work (from concept) is to allow stupid things to happen like let the user own the process as admin. MS also fell in this trap when they disregarded the Internet (in the 90's) as a no go and are still getting caught out.
The thing is MS windows (once, I dunno about now) was designed for one user - admin - and all software shops using 'programmed' programmers reading MS docs followed that premise. They are all now struggling to 'unpipe' the spaghetti' mess as they don't know what the fuck they done in the first place.
Why can't they use the update mechanism built into the browser, similar to how normal extensions / add-ons update?
I loathe updating flash since it requires to use a separate executable to check for an update, then you have to go to their website (and uncheck the box to download whatever piece of shovelware they are offering this week)and download a full executable, then when the executable is done running, you have to restart your browsers whether or not flash was running at the time or not.
Although its not nearly as bad as the JRE... But that's like saying getting kicked in the leg isn't as bad as getting kicked in the face.
Seriously, please - can we just put the fucker out of it's misery?
Thanks to Jobs putting his foot down on iOS, most sites proved they can work without flash.
I think the worst Sin Microsoft did with Windows 8 was baking flash into Internet Explorer: Just when we were at the point of beginning to get rid of it.
"The slow death of Adobe Flash has been hastened — YouTube, which used the platform as the standard way to play its videos, has dumped Flash in favor of HTML5 for its default web player. The site will now use HTML5 video as standard in Chrome, Internet Explorer 11, Safari 8, and in beta versions of Firefox. "
- http://www.theverge.com/2015/1/27/7926001/youtube-drops-flash-for-html5-video-default