Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2013 18:25:45 -0400 From: mfv <mrkvrg@acm.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: firefox && HTML5 && flash Message-ID: <4611988.Veuan0ZE26@gecko3.bs.net> In-Reply-To: <1382214677.94228.28.camel@eva02.mbsd> References: <20131018213547.GA1001@tiny-r255948> <20131019212819.GA896@tiny-r255948> <1382214677.94228.28.camel@eva02.mbsd>
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On Sat, 19 Oct 2013 23:31:17 clutton wrote: > Of course it is not! > I'm a FreeBSD user and Klemens lives in Germany... > FreeBSD users and Germans don't do such things... > > :) > > BTW. If you see green install button, it means that firefox addons team > had approved this addon. And all sources is available on github. > And you can always see the sources. It's just JS. > > On Sat, 2013-10-19 at 21:28 +0000, Matthias Apitz wrote: > > El dÃa Saturday, October 19, 2013 a las 02:29:32PM -0400, mfv escribió: > > > > And the flash disable addon (I didn't try it, 'cause I don't have the > > > > flash plugin installed): > > > > https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/flashdisable > > > > > > I received this message a couple of minutes after requesting a solution > > > to > > > switch between flash and HTML5. > > > > > > I tried the third option and it meets my needs. If I need to switch from > > > one mode to the other it is a simple matter of clicking on the button > > > that appears on the toolbar and then reload the page. If the button is > > > red, flash can be used, if it is greyed-out HTML5 is loaded. > > > > Hello mfv, > > > > Isn't it risky to install such kind of software? What about if it is > > recording your future keystrokes? > > > > Thx > > > > matthias Hello clutton and Matthias, Thanks for the following information. The download button for flashdisable was indeed green so I assume the firefox folks reviewed the code. After looking at their security notes I verified that add-ons where reviews are pending are marked as experimental and have buttons with yellow and orange stripes. After installing this add-on I ran clamscan and did not find any viruses. Are there any other precautions I should take? As far as potential threats go, I do have a concern that the binary code is on one site and the source code on another. In this situation it seems that bait-and-switch is possible. Cheers ... Marek
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