Hello, Am Dienstag, 27. August 2019, 23:10:34 CEST schrieb Carlos E. R.:
On 08/27/2019 06:20 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
I just hit a news site that requires flash from adobe, TODAY. :-( [...] Still quite common in weather/RADAR, e.g.
https://radar.weather.gov/radar.php?rid=SHV&product=N0R&overlay=1110 1111&loop=yes
(any guess how long it will take the US government to rewrite its weather pages?) Ok, I get grey background with something like a Lego brick in the centre, and al label that says "Run adobe flash". I'll try click
On 27/08/2019 22.47, David C. Rankin wrote: there. [...] Then Firefox asks me to allow flash and whether to remember the decision, then I get the graphics. It works. Ok, this is how it should have gone for me this morning, but it did not or I did not see it.
I'll give you a strange advise: uninstall or disable flash (setting it to "ask" isn't enough). Sounds funny? Let me explain ;-) The funny thing with websites still requiring flash is: Often they don't really require it, they "just" prefer it. As long as you have the flash plugin installed and set it to "enabled" or "ask", your browser will send a header [1] indicating that it can execute the latest attacks^W^W^W^Wdisplay flash. If you completely disable the flash plugin or uninstall it, the browser no longer sends this header - and, surprise, you get HTML5 videos or, in case of radar.weather.gov page, a page built with animated gifs. Therefore: uninstall flash, and the websites will still work - or even work better ;-) There might be a few rare exceptions, but IIRC I didn't see any in the last 3 years or so. Regards, Christian Boltz [1] Actually it's not a header line on it's own, flash is probably [2] part of the "Accept" header [2] no, I won't install flash just to verify this ;-) -- I just started a little project: the openSUSE Spring of Code. It has many advantages over similiar projects, most prominently it's all about honor and you don't have to care how to pay taxes on money. [Stephan Kulow in opensuse-factory] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org