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

[Francis Gerund]

Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> Where exactly is this entry?



In the Firefox menu bar, click the "Open menu" icon (3 stacked horizontal
lines)

Then click the "Preferences" icon.

Then click "Applications" in the menu at the far left.

[Note: shows in the URL diplay area as: "about:preferences#applications"].

There are 2 columns: "Content type", on the left, and "Action", on the
right.  Under "Content type" is the entry "Flash video". Next to that,
under "Action", is "Use mplayerplug-in is now gecko-mediaplayer 1.0.9 (in
Firefox)".

If that is clicked, other choices also appear:
- "Always ask"
- "Save file"
- "Use Videos (default)"
- "Use other . . ."



On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 12:32 PM, Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf at rocketmail.com>
wrote:

> On Thu, 16 Jul 2015 12:01:09 -0500, Francis Gerund wrote:
> >Just noticed in Firefox 39.0-1 preferences an entry "Flash video".
>
> Where exactly is this entry?
>
> I heard that H.264 from Cisco phones home, resp. auto-updates, so you
> might want to edit about:config to use gstreamer H.264. Perhaps this
> automatically is done by installing the optional dependencies?
>
> JFTR I didn't change something regarding H.264 and I kept several other
> phone home crap of a default Firefox. I guess I only disabled "Block
> reported..." by the preferences.
>
> However, if I right click on a YouTube video there is "About the HTML5
> player": https://www.youtube.com/html5
>