11 Jul 15 20:03, you wrote to BOB KLAHN:

 EV> I removed Adobe Flash from all of my User Accounts recently. But I
 EV> will check to see if anything shows up about Flash's hardware
 EV> acceleration. Thanks!

 EV> I can see YouTube videos just fine since I selected their HTML5
 EV> setting last month.

excellent!

 EV> Some websites say they NEED Flash to show me something on their
 EV> page(s) but so far I am trying to live with out Flash.

that's the best thing...

 EV> I just read Sophos said a third problem happened to Flash recently.

yes, a so-called security company got hacked and their sources are now out
in the wild... those sources carry the code for many zero-day infiltation
methods... a zero-day is an unknown flaw that allows one to break into a
system... quite a few of those zero-days are for flash and they are already
being exploited in the wild... that's the main reason that adobe has had to
release a fix on the heels of their last release and they're already having
to release another one on that one's heels... there will be more to come,
too... flash has more holes than a window screen...

 EV> If a lot of the websites that I've bookmarked, and like to visit,
 EV> complain that Flash is needed I guess I'll have to reinstall Flash.

that's the /wrong/ thing to do... especially if you cannot get today's
latest flash release that patches the above mentioned zero-day flaws... to
continue to run flash on an unsupported OS is dancing naked with the devil
in the bright moon light... you should rethink this while also considering
what they are using flash for... many are for nothing but ads... sites
requiring flash are more about pretty instead if functionality... there's a
lot of bandwidth wasted, too, compared to a functional site that doesn't
use flash at all...

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