Good news for users of Firefox – now users are
automatically protected from that dastardly new
Flash bug that was stolen and
weaponized recently. The parent company “Mozilla” decided that the best way to
keep its users safe was to stop the Flash plugin from running in the browser. At
least for now. It’s not the
Flashpocalypse that some bloggers
are making it out to be. Mozilla did not, indeed, "take Flash out behind
the shed" and put a slug in it.
The fact of the matter is that this was the same old thing for
Mozilla. They've blocked risky plugins — like Java, for instance — some time
recently. It's all part of Mozilla's security technique. Once in a while, they
say, security of the Firefox client base must be organized more than a
consistent web experience. That is precisely what happened for this present
week. A few high-seriousness Flash bugs were accounted for. One was stolen by
programmers who penetrated the "security" firm Hacking Team and after
that weaponized in short request by cyber criminals. Another appeared a couple
of days after the fact that influenced all rendition of Flash, including the
most recent, 18.0.0.209.
Hit a page that uses Flash at this moment with Firefox and
you'll most likely see the outcome: a notice like the one at the highest point
of this post. On the other hand, you may not see it.
On the off chance that
you've skimmed Mozilla's bolster docs some time recently, you may have
discovered one of their proposed remediations for Flash security issues: uproot
it. You can likely get along fine and dandy without it, if not for all time in
any event until Adobe squashes this most recent discriminating bug.
One day
soon, ideally, Mozilla's Shumway task will work out as expected and you'll have
the capacity to run Flash substance without the requirement for Adobe's plugin.
That day can't come soon enough, and when it does, then features about Mozilla
putting Flash out its hopelessness (or putting us out of Flash's wretchedness) will
actually be true.
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