Re: [arch-general] current flash vulnerabilities - what to do?

2015-07-15 Thread Francis Gerund
Okay. Just uninstalled flashplugin (really should never have installed anyway). can always try gnash later, but I'll try without to see how it goes. Thanks. On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 6:38 PM, Jens Adam wrote: > > freshplayerplugin > > Just to nitpick: even if it's more current (feature-wise) th

Re: [arch-general] current flash vulnerabilities - what to do?

2015-07-15 Thread Daniel Micay
On 15/07/15 07:38 PM, Jens Adam wrote: >> freshplayerplugin > > Just to nitpick: even if it's more current (feature-wise) than > standard Adobe Linux 11.2 flashplugin, it's still Adobe Flash and > thus just as problematic regarding its security. > > --byte PPAPI Flash runs in a strong sandbox i

Re: [arch-general] current flash vulnerabilities - what to do?

2015-07-15 Thread Jens Adam
> freshplayerplugin Just to nitpick: even if it's more current (feature-wise) than standard Adobe Linux 11.2 flashplugin, it's still Adobe Flash and thus just as problematic regarding its security. --byte pgpVf4SvF4waS.pgp Description: Digitale Signatur von OpenPGP

Re: [arch-general] current flash vulnerabilities - what to do?

2015-07-15 Thread Sebastian Pipping
On 16.07.2015 01:22, D C wrote: > I've actually posted a thread on the forums about this. For youtube you can > just use HTML5. To my best knowledge, it depends on the video / the compression algorithm used. For some videos on YouTube HTML5 works just fine, for some Videos you still need Flash.

Re: [arch-general] current flash vulnerabilities - what to do?

2015-07-15 Thread D C
I've actually posted a thread on the forums about this. For youtube you can just use HTML5. If you require flash there are alternatives: gnash, lightspark, freshplayerplugin-git, shumway, etc... On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 7:09 PM, Francis Gerund wrote: > Hello! > > Run: > - Arch linux 64-bit > -

[arch-general] current flash vulnerabilities - what to do?

2015-07-15 Thread Francis Gerund
Hello! Run: - Arch linux 64-bit - 4.0.7-2-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Jun 30 07:50:21 UTC 2015 x86_64 GNU/Linux - Firefox 39.0-1 - flashplugin 11.2.202.481-1 (Install Date : Wed 08 Jul 2015) What is best practice about the current flash vulnerabilites? Just uninstall flashplugin? Can live with