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

[Ben Oliver]

On 16 July 2015 at 13:04, Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf at rocketmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 15 Jul 2015 19:45:35 -0500, Francis Gerund wrote:
> >Just uninstalled flashplugin (really should never have installed
> >anyway). can always try gnash later, but I'll try without to see how
> >it goes.
>
> Gnash can't replace the proprietary crap. I neither have the
> proprietary, nor gnash installed. For "emergency" I've got Chrome
> installed, but my usual approach is, that as soon as Chrome is needed,
> I'm not interested in the content anymore. JFTR assumed you're using
> Firefox with safe browsing and auto-updates e.g. for Cisco H264, with
> prefetch and keyword enabled and geo information and reports enabled,
> then you don't need to care about how evil a Google browser or Adobe
> crap are, since your Firefox is bad too ;).
>


I have to agree with Ralf, you will be fine.

I have been flash-free for 18 months now and it's going absolutely fine.
Unless you have a penchant for flash games, there's very little reason to
have it installed any more.