Warning: Adobe Flash Player is now bundleware and most likelyadware.
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From: John Corliss on 12 Jun 2010 06:50 za kAT wrote: > John Corliss wrote: > > If you install flash using Secunia it gets flash from the ftp site. > > Or you can get it direct I guess. What I did was to open the Add-ons manager in Firefox, then click on the Plugins tab and click on the "Find Updates" button. Doing this opens a page in Firefox: https://www.mozilla.com/en-US/plugincheck/ Then I clicked on the "Update" button next to Shockwave Flash and later, the one by Shockwave for Director. Adobe seems to be having an identity crisis for those plugins. I don't know why they can't just call them "Flash Player" and "Shockwave Player". -- John Corliss BS206. Because of all the Googlespam, I block all posts sent through Google Groups. I also block as many posts from anonymous remailers (like x-privat.org for eg.) as possible due to forgeries posted through them. No ad, CD, commercial, cripple, demo, nag, share, spy, time-limited, trial or web wares OR warez for me, please. Adobe Flash sucks, DivX rules.
From: Craig on 12 Jun 2010 10:51 On 06/12/2010 05:21 AM, s|b wrote: > On Sat, 12 Jun 2010 02:37:45 -0700, John Corliss wrote: > >> It's already bad enough that installing the bundled McAfee garbage is >> checked by default when you update Adobe Flash Player. Now the >> installation adds a Firefox extension named ""Adobe DLM (powered by >> getPlus (R)". > > As I already told, you can do without it by directly downloading the > EXE: > <http://fpdownload.adobe.com/get/flashplayer/current/install_flash_player.exe> > > There is a similar EXE for IE (called install_flash_player_ax.exe). > > <http://fpdownload.adobe.com/get/flashplayer/current/install_flash_player_ax.exe> This site has straight-forward downloads for each platform, not just win *BUT* it's intended for redistribution. I haven't check the win download for the dlm. If someone has a better location for this stuff, I'm all ears. <http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/fp_distribution3.html> Btw, ftp.adobe.com is available to anonymous login and is chock full of flash stuff but I wasn't able to find anything current. fyi, -- -Craig
From: John Corliss on 12 Jun 2010 20:32
Manatee Memories wrote: > John Corliss wrote: > > <....> >> McAfee garbage > <....> > > "Garbage" after McAfee is not required, seeing as how said company has, > to the tune of 101% or greater, lacked quality for at least the past 15 > years. > > McAfee + garbage, or Garbage + McAfee - it's all the same. I think the term you're looking for is "oxymoronic". 80)> -- John Corliss BS206. Because of all the Googlespam, I block all posts sent through Google Groups. I also block as many posts from anonymous remailers (like x-privat.org for eg.) as possible due to forgeries posted through them. No ad, CD, commercial, cripple, demo, nag, share, spy, time-limited, trial or web wares OR warez for me, please. Adobe Flash sucks, DivX rules. |