Have you tried changing your user agent to iPhone or iPad? Lots of websites actually do offer HTML5, but limit it to mobile devices. You can enable the menu in Safari settings > Advanced > Show develop menu and then go to Develop > User Agent.
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Adobe Releases Flash Player Update for 'Critical' Security Vulnerability on Mac
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Have you tried changing your user agent to iPhone or iPad? Lots of websites actually do offer HTML5, but limit it to mobile devices. You can enable the menu in Safari settings > Advanced > Show develop menu and then go to Develop > User Agent.
There are some more prominent websites that still do use Flash for video playback. Some more prominent ones are Hulu, and Time Warner Cable's TV anywhere web interface. These aren't small businesses. As much as you guys want to hasten the death of Adobe Flash, you cannot expect the average user to avoid consuming the web content that they enjoy.
As a side note, when I inquired at Hulu as to why they aren't offering an HTML5 playback option, they cited that content owners were nervous about enabling HTML5 playback due to the way DRM works with HTML5.
As a side note, when I inquired at Hulu as to why they aren't offering an HTML5 playback option, they cited that content owners were nervous about enabling HTML5 playback due to the way DRM works with HTML5.
This is why I mentioned Chrome only for this management console; it would be just like using a different app for a very specific task.
Chrome uses its own PPAPI version called Pepper Flash which uses the same sandboxing as Chrome. I assumed that it was more secure than the Adobe plug-in but I might be wrong.
Not sure what's going on. When I click on the link to UNINSTALL I just get a blank page :-(
Has Flash ever had any flaws that could allow remote code execution? In any case the frequency might lead one to believe that those are the best ones since it seems to do them so well.
What a POS. A hard lesson still not learned.
What a POS. A hard lesson still not learned.
The problem is so many sites still requires Flash it's not even funny. I tried a week without Flash and I found I couldn't view videos on about 3/4 the sites out there. When I found one I just had to see, back it went. Get these sites off Flash and uninstalling Flash would be a more appealing option.
Sorry, but i refuse to support Google's spyware called Chrome.
And VMware Vcenter webconsole is crap of the highest order. I utilize the vcenter client for everything I can and only go web when the function is not available. Here's hoping (PLEASE!!!!) that Dell flushes out the wonder children building the webconsole right out the door.
Will clicktoplugin work if flash isn't installed?
I use the app mainly to let me download MPGs
ClickToPlugin will work fine if flash isn't installed. All it does is block plugins from being loaded - it replaces them with a plain white box that says "Click to Plugin". You click on the box and then it allows the plugin to load. Or you don't click on the box and the plugin never loads.
Of course, if Flash isn't installed and you click on a box that is supposed to load the Flash plugin, you'll get OS X's Broken Lego icon and a message saying "Plugin Missing".
Doesn't clicktoplugin convert flash to html5? If flash isn't there than nothing happens?
Yeah, it also does that when it can. But sometimes Flash isn't being used to play a video. Online games that haven't been updated in ~5 years tend to be written in Flash rather than Javascript - there's no way around that, for example.