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Update your Flash Player (did Adobe flash player just jump five versions?)
In article , David W. Hodgins
wrote: So, let's say, two years from now, Flash Player dies. Then what? Uninstall the flash-player-plugin. If the browser doesn't tell the website it has flash, any recent website will automatically switch to html5, which any recent browser will support. yep, although a few sites need the user agent to be ios or android to send non-flash. some sites assume that if you're using a desktop system, you can get flash and will bitch until you do. It won't work with legacy websites that only provide flash versions, but those sites will be old enough, they probably shouldn't be used anyway. there's rarely, if ever, anything worthwhile on such a site. |
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Update your Flash Player (did Adobe flash player just jump five versions?)
In article , Eef Hartman
wrote: Quit trolling, dude. You're talking to people who use Flash on Linux and do their updates. adobe says it's not supported. See my previous message where Adobe explicitly declares 11.2 te be SUPported (though only security updates, no enhanced functionality). call it limited support then. the fact is that in 2 years linux users are screwed. The latest 11.2 update came out THIS week: (Released 1/27/2015) Flash Player 11.2.202.440 (32.39 MB) Quit trolling over things you don't know anything about! This is more for other people that might be misled by your false claims. *adobe* is making the claim. go bitch at them. |
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Update your Flash Player (did Adobe flash player just jump five versions?)
In article , Chris Ahlstrom
wrote: Adobe's behavior with PDF bothers me even more than that other piece of crap. because they no longer support linux anymore? No. Because Adobe pads their open PDF format with *proprietary* extensions. who cares. what matters are results. if you don't need the extensions, don't use them, but for those who see a benefit in using them, they're not going to give it up because of linux compatibility. |
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Update your Flash Player (did Adobe flash player just jump fiveversions?)
David W. Hodgins wrote, on Fri, 30 Jan 2015 09:06:51 -0500:
Site's that use flashes drm to prevent people from downloading the video, instead of just streaming it, won't work with version 11. OK. Well, that means it's BETTER (for me) to have 11 than 16. I'll bet nobody will name anything worthwhile in 16 that's not in 11. It's not a contest, but, the point is that there's nothing wrong with 11 and, in most cases, the newer version benefits the company selling the stuff, not the user. |
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Update your Flash Player (did Adobe flash player just jump fiveversions?)
David W. Hodgins wrote, on Fri, 30 Jan 2015 10:48:33 -0500:
Uninstall the flash-player-plugin. If the browser doesn't tell the website it has flash, any recent website will automatically switch to html5, which any recent browser will support. Wow. If that works, that's the easiest solution of all! |
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Update your Flash Player (did Adobe flash player just jump fiveversions?)
Adair Bordon wrote, on Fri, 30 Jan 2015 14:52:35 +0000:
Chrome and Chromium-Browser both are buggy when it comes to handling MULTIPLE embedded links (not just one!) in a list of text and links. I often copy and paste a set of links similar to the following, in a web-based forum, where the important thing is that the links follow with the "copy" and "paste" right button clicks. $ vi /tmp/foo.htm This is the a href=http://www.google.comfirst/a link; this is the a href=http://www.google.comsecond/a; this is the a href=http://www.google.comthird/a. $ firefox -url /tmp/foo.htm & $ chromium-browser -url /tmp/foo.htm & When I cut and paste something like that, I want the entire set of three links to be cut and pasted (all three links) in a single step. In the web forums I log into, this works ONLY with Firefox, but it fails every time with both Chrome & chromium-browser. Since I spend a lot of time on web forums, that makes Chrome and chromium-browser essentially useless for me. I'm not sure what it is in a web-based forum that makes this simple cut and paste fail, but it is easy to reproduce on a web forum (usually you need to create an account). |
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Update your Flash Player (did Adobe flash player just jump fiveversions?)
Lewis wrote, on Fri, 30 Jan 2015 10:28:28 +0000:
I do. Most sites that say they 'require' Flash are lying. Changing the UserAgent to the iPad makes all the video magically work. I just added User Agent Switcher to Firefox so that I can change the UserAgent to the iPad next time this happens. |
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Update your Flash Player (did Adobe flash player just jump fiveversions?)
nospam wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:
In article , Chris Ahlstrom wrote: Adobe's behavior with PDF bothers me even more than that other piece of crap. because they no longer support linux anymore? No. Because Adobe pads their open PDF format with *proprietary* extensions. who cares. what matters are results. Yes. Results that anyone can achieve, not results that are restricted to the use of the products of a single vendor. if you don't need the extensions, don't use them, but for those who see a benefit in using them, they're not going to give it up because of linux compatibility. No ****, Sherlock. That's why, at work, I have to keep a Windows VM, with an outdated version of Internet Explorer on it. -- Valkyrja java, hon, sometimes I really want to smack you. Knghtbrd Valkyrja - he'd enjoy it too much Reteo Valkyrja: yah, go ahead and do it... beat java into cappuccino! :-) |
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Update your Flash Player (did Adobe flash player just jump five versions?)
In article , Chris Ahlstrom
wrote: Adobe's behavior with PDF bothers me even more than that other piece of crap. because they no longer support linux anymore? No. Because Adobe pads their open PDF format with *proprietary* extensions. who cares. what matters are results. Yes. Results that anyone can achieve, not results that are restricted to the use of the products of a single vendor. if a feature makes someone more productive or does something they could not do otherwise, they're going to use the feature. over 95% of systems will be able to read it without any problem at all. if you don't need the extensions, don't use them, but for those who see a benefit in using them, they're not going to give it up because of linux compatibility. No ****, Sherlock. That's why, at work, I have to keep a Windows VM, with an outdated version of Internet Explorer on it. what sites are those? any site that hasn't updated to work with recent browsers (even if it's just recent ie) is not anything important. |
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Update your Flash Player (did Adobe flash player just jump fiveversions?)
On 2015-02-01, nospam wrote:
any site that hasn't updated to work with recent browsers (even if it's just recent ie) is not anything important. Oh, if only that were the case. Many corporate web applications are unfortunately written in such a way that IE is often restricted to older versions for correct operation with that web browser. LiveLink comes to mind, but various SAP solutions fit the mold a well. If you happen to work for a corporation that uses such web applications for business processes, you're naturally stuck using supported web browsers to deal with them, or dealing with the problems associated with using unsupported browsers. -- E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my ravenous SPAM filter. I often ignore posts from Google. Use a real news client instead. JR |
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Update your Flash Player (did Adobe flash player just jump five versions?)
In article , Jolly Roger
wrote: any site that hasn't updated to work with recent browsers (even if it's just recent ie) is not anything important. Oh, if only that were the case. Many corporate web applications are unfortunately written in such a way that IE is often restricted to older versions for correct operation with that web browser. LiveLink comes to mind, but various SAP solutions fit the mold a well. If you happen to work for a corporation that uses such web applications for business processes, you're naturally stuck using supported web browsers to deal with them, or dealing with the problems associated with using unsupported browsers. for internal, anything goes, but he said he had to use an older version of ie in a virtual machine, which would be very unusual for a company to do that. if that's really the case, it's time to find a job with a company that has a clue. |
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Update your Flash Player (did Adobe flash player just jump fiveversions?)
On 2015-02-01, nospam wrote:
In article , Jolly Roger wrote: any site that hasn't updated to work with recent browsers (even if it's just recent ie) is not anything important. Oh, if only that were the case. Many corporate web applications are unfortunately written in such a way that IE is often restricted to older versions for correct operation with that web browser. LiveLink comes to mind, but various SAP solutions fit the mold a well. If you happen to work for a corporation that uses such web applications for business processes, you're naturally stuck using supported web browsers to deal with them, or dealing with the problems associated with using unsupported browsers. for internal, anything goes, but he said he had to use an older version of ie in a virtual machine, which would be very unusual for a company to do that. No, not really. I've worked in many a group where most of the developers use Macs in a corporation where Macs are just barely, if at all, supported, but employees are still expected to use corporate web applications and support Windows environments and applications, and do so with virtual machines. if that's really the case, it's time to find a job with a company that has a clue. Nah. Some very large corporations do some really cool work and still have such systems in place. It's the nature of the beast, and if you can't make minor adjustments needed to work in such an environment, I'd argue you don't deserve the position. -- E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my ravenous SPAM filter. I often ignore posts from Google. Use a real news client instead. JR |
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