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From: Chris Ridd on 18 Apr 2010 07:14 On 2010-04-18 11:33:44 +0100, smurf said: > Ian McCall wrote: >> As of today, the videos on youtube are sticking a 'Go upgrade' link >> before playing. Thing is, I redownloaded Flash and installed in case a >> new version had come out. It's still showing upgrade even so. >> >> Anyone else having this trouble? >> >> >> Cheers, >> Ian > > A major source of smitfraud type infections that are currently plaguing > windows machines, is a fake adobe flash updater, one of the really > good reasons to have an osx machine. I'm wondering if it is more sensible to wait for Apple to ship a (properly packaged and integrated etc) Flash plugin, or to just grab Adobe's standalone installer and overwrite the one supplied via Apple. How often do Apple ship updated Flash plugins? -- Chris
From: Ben Shimmin on 18 Apr 2010 07:49 Chris Ridd <chrisridd(a)mac.com>: [...] > I'm wondering if it is more sensible to wait for Apple to ship a > (properly packaged and integrated etc) Flash plugin, or to just grab > Adobe's standalone installer and overwrite the one supplied via Apple. > > How often do Apple ship updated Flash plugins? Good question. They managed to ship an out of date version with Snow Leopard... I would recommend giving the beta of Flash Player 10.1 a go. You will find the performance improvement to be worthwhile. You can get it here: <URL:http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer10/> b. -- <bas(a)bas.me.uk> <URL:http://bas.me.uk/> `Zombies are defined by behavior and can be "explained" by many handy shortcuts: the supernatural, radiation, a virus, space visitors, secret weapons, a Harvard education and so on.' -- Roger Ebert
From: Chris Ridd on 18 Apr 2010 08:07 On 2010-04-18 12:49:24 +0100, Ben Shimmin said: > Chris Ridd <chrisridd(a)mac.com>: > > [...] > >> I'm wondering if it is more sensible to wait for Apple to ship a >> (properly packaged and integrated etc) Flash plugin, or to just grab >> Adobe's standalone installer and overwrite the one supplied via Apple. >> >> How often do Apple ship updated Flash plugins? > > Good question. They managed to ship an out of date version with > Snow Leopard... Nod, but they updated it in 10.6.1, and also it seems in 10.6.3. pkgutil --files com.apple.pkg.update.os.10.6.3.patch | grep "Flash Player.plugin" > > I would recommend giving the beta of Flash Player 10.1 a go. You will > find the performance improvement to be worthwhile. You can get it here: > > <URL:http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer10/> I'm going to sit tight with Apple's shipped version for now. -- Chris
From: zoara on 18 Apr 2010 18:59
Chris Ridd <chrisridd(a)mac.com> wrote: > On 2010-04-18 11:33:44 +0100, smurf said: > I'm wondering if it is more sensible to wait for Apple to ship a > (properly packaged and integrated etc) Flash plugin, or to just grab > Adobe's standalone installer and overwrite the one supplied via Apple. > > How often do Apple ship updated Flash plugins? This is happening on Chrome on my work's Windows machine as well, using a Flash blocker. I think all that's happened is that YouTube have changed their flash detection in a way that has confused flash blockers. Notably it seems to have happened at the same time as going to their site on IE6 (I know, I know) throws up an error about no longer supporting anything so old. And the timing is also curiously close to the release of the iPad. Hmmm. I cured it by just joining the html5 beta at http://www.YouTube.com/html5 -z- -- email: nettid1 at fastmail dot fm |