No more flash updates?

2013-01-14 Thread Todd And Margo Chester

Hi All,

Over on
http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/?promoid=JZEFT
it states:

  NOTE: Adobe Flash Player 11.2 will be the last
version to target Linux as a supported platform.
Adobe will continue to provide security backports
to Flash Player 11.2 for Linux.

Is not Flash a bit of a security nightmare to start with?
Or is better if we only get backports?

-T


Re: No more flash updates?

2013-01-14 Thread Christopher Tooley
Another option is to install Google Chrome and get more recent versions of 
Flash provided for you by Google.  As far as I know, Google made an agreement 
with Adobe to allow Google to support Flash on linux - I'm willing to be 
corrected on this if someone has a source that negates this premise.

But yes, I agree that Flash is a hell hole of security flaws and problems.  I 
think most sites are starting to migrate to HTML5, including some online game 
companies - hopefully we won't need Flash in the future.

-Chris

On 2013-01-14, at 10:32 AM, Todd And Margo Chester toddandma...@gmail.com 
wrote:

 Hi All,
 
 Over on
 http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/?promoid=JZEFT
 it states:
 
   NOTE: Adobe Flash Player 11.2 will be the last
 version to target Linux as a supported platform.
 Adobe will continue to provide security backports
 to Flash Player 11.2 for Linux.
 
 Is not Flash a bit of a security nightmare to start with?
 Or is better if we only get backports?
 
 -T