Wolfgang Rosenauer schrieb:
Am 06.04.2012 11:56, schrieb Robert Kaiser:
For one thing, Adobe just released a new version of Flash for Linux. Even if
Which is worse than the previous version because it broke every nvidia system!
Wow, didn't know that. I would guess that they are still interested in providing a fix for that. When software developers say "maintained for security", that usually includes stability and bad-regression fixes, and this surely falls in that category. I hope Adobe has been contacted on this.
People are already rolling back to 11.1 to make it usable ignoring the security issues. All that concerns me a lot!
Yes, people downgrading to insecure versions always bothers me as well, I'm currently seeing a lot of concerning stuff around the Java security issues and Mozilla blocking versions where an exploit exists in the wild. Stuff like "but we need to continue using Firefox 3.0.10 and java 1.6.0.13" - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=739955#c69 - makes me shiver.
I agree that we cannot kill the Flash plugin right now as much as I wanted it to happen. It makes me angry how much Adobe pisses off Linux users and non-Chrome users at the moment as this makes Linux look like a even worse desktop system and especially to you as a "Mozilla guy" this will most likely decrease Firefox and SeaMonkey usage on Linux even more as people have to switch to Chrome if they want proper Flash support.
I don't think it actually will make a serious dent into Firefox usage, esp. given that the not-really-open incomplete-code-drop-over-the-wall Chromium doesn't fare better and Chrome is not an option for anyone believing in Free Software (or for the defaults of distros). The real goal needs to be to make Flash obsolete and unneeded and work for openness, innovation and opportunities on the web - for everyone. Thankfully, that's the Mozilla mission. :) Robert Kaiser -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org