Re: Flash Player Not Out of Date

From	Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.system
Subject	Re: Flash Player Not Out of Date
Date	2016-09-30 21:21 +0000
Organization	People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates
Message-ID	<e583a3Fbrb4U2@mid.individual.net> (permalink)
References	<2016093010092482151-xxx@yyyzzz> <e57njqF993vU1@mid.individual.net> <2016093013565669017-xxx@yyyzzz>

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On 2016-09-30, gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> wrote:
> On 2016-09-30 18:01:31 +0000, Jolly Roger said:
>
>> On 2016-09-30, gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> wrote:
>>> I attempt to do streaming of one kind or other in Safari, for instance
>>> this one:
>>> 
>>> 	http://abcnews.go.com/Live?stream=7&cid=HP_LB_THUMB
>>> 
>>> And get a complaint that I must have Flash Player version 10.2.0 or
>>> greater.  I currently have 23.0.0.162 installed.  When I pop the same
>>> url into Firefox there is complaint.
>>> 
>>> Any ideas on how to correct this?
>> 
>> It's a lie. You don't need Flash installed at all. From the Safari menu
>> bar, choose Develop > User Agent > Safari — iOS — iPad, and like magic
>> the videos will play. (If you don't see the Develop menu, go to Safari
>> Preferences > Advanced and enable "Show Develop menu in the menu bar"
>> first.) Some web sites stupidly assume that if you are browsing on a
>> desktop operating system like macOS, Linux, or Windows, you can run
>> Flash and blindly serve up Flash-based content. Yet those same web sites
>> will happily serve up HTML5 video content instead if they detect you are
>> browsing from a mobile operating system, since Flash doesn't run on most
>> mobile devices. You can blame the person who authored the web site for
>> this, since there's technically no reason they can't just use HTML5 in
>> all cases.
>
> Cool!  Many thanks for in interesting solution!

No prob. I've removed Flash from all of my systems for some time now and
don't miss it at all. Good riddance! Highly recommended. : )

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Flash Player Not Out of Date gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2016-09-30 10:09 -0700
  Re: Flash Player Not Out of Date Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-09-30 18:01 +0000
    Re: Flash Player Not Out of Date gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2016-09-30 13:56 -0700
      Re: Flash Player Not Out of Date Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-09-30 21:21 +0000
        Re: Flash Player Not Out of Date gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2016-10-03 12:33 -0700
    Re: Flash Player Not Out of Date "Happy.Hobo" <Happy.Hobo@Spam.Invalid> - 2016-10-01 16:13 -0500
      Re: Flash Player Not Out of Date Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-10-01 21:18 +0000
        Re: Flash Player Not Out of Date Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2016-10-01 21:40 +0000
          Re: Flash Player Not Out of Date "Happy.Hobo" <Happy.Hobo@Spam.Invalid> - 2016-10-01 18:57 -0500
            Re: Flash Player Not Out of Date gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2016-10-01 17:16 -0700
              Re: Flash Player Not Out of Date "Mongoose" <mongoose@rikkitikkitavi.com> - 2016-10-03 15:57 -0400
                Re: Flash Player Not Out of Date Alan Baker <alangbaker@telus.net> - 2016-10-03 13:25 -0700
                Re: Flash Player Not Out of Date gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2016-10-03 16:14 -0700
                Re: Flash Player Not Out of Date Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2016-10-03 23:07 +0000
                Re: Flash Player Not Out of Date gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2016-10-03 16:12 -0700
          Re: Flash Player Not Out of Date Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-10-02 01:32 +0000
            Re: Flash Player Not Out of Date Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2016-10-02 07:24 +0000
              Re: Flash Player Not Out of Date Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-10-02 17:56 +0000
                Re: Flash Player Not Out of Date Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2016-10-02 22:12 +0000
        Re: Flash Player Not Out of Date "Happy.Hobo" <Happy.Hobo@Spam.Invalid> - 2016-10-01 18:56 -0500
          Re: Flash Player Not Out of Date Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-10-02 06:16 +0000
      Re: Flash Player Not Out of Date nmassello@yahoo.com (Neill Massello) - 2016-10-01 18:12 -0600
    Re: Flash Player Not Out of Date "Mongoose" <mongoose@rikkitikkitavi.com> - 2016-10-03 16:00 -0400
  Re: Flash Player Not Out of Date dorayme <do_ray_me@bigpond.com> - 2016-10-01 08:19 +1000
  Re: Flash Player Not Out of Date Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2016-10-01 03:54 +0000
  Re: Flash Player Not Out of Date Mandy Liefbowitz <mandyliefbowitz@the.port.side> - 2016-10-02 22:26 +0100
    Re: Flash Player Not Out of Date Mandy Liefbowitz <mandyliefbowitz@the.port.side> - 2016-10-02 22:30 +0100
    Re: Flash Player Not Out of Date gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2016-10-02 15:32 -0700
  Re: Flash Player Not Out of Date gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2016-10-15 13:12 -0700
    Re: Flash Player Not Out of Date gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2016-10-15 13:42 -0700
    Re: Flash Player Not Out of Date Fred McKenzie <fmmck@aol.com> - 2016-10-15 16:50 -0400
      Re: Flash Player Not Out of Date gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2016-10-15 14:22 -0700
        Re: Flash Player Not Out of Date Martin Frost <nospam@Stanford.EDU.invalid> - 2016-10-16 19:00 -0700
          Re: Flash Player Not Out of Date gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2016-10-16 23:38 -0700
            Re: Flash Player Not Out of Date gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2016-10-16 23:39 -0700
    Re: Flash Player Not Out of Date David Ryeburn <david_ryeburn@telus.netz> - 2016-10-15 23:28 -0700
      Re: Flash Player Not Out of Date gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2016-10-16 12:12 -0700
        Re: Flash Player Not Out of Date David Ryeburn <david_ryeburn@telus.netz> - 2016-10-16 14:08 -0700
          Re: Flash Player Not Out of Date gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2016-10-16 14:39 -0700
          Re: Flash Player Not Out of Date Leonard Blaisdell <leoblaisdell@sbcglobal.net> - 2016-10-16 19:49 -0700

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