[PLUG] Turning off Firefox "your Adobe Flash player is insecure" nag

Randy Stapilus stapilus at ridenbaugh.com
Thu Dec 31 05:48:04 UTC 2015


Not a solution exactly, but I've largely switched over to Chrome for
exactly that reason. No more nags.

Randy Stapilus
Ridenbaugh Press
www.ridenbaugh.com
WA, OR, ID Weekly Briefings
503-852-0010

On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 8:57 PM, Keith Lofstrom <keithl at gate.kl-ic.com>
wrote:

> About 4 times a year, a new insecurity is discovered in Adobe Flash
> player, and Firefox demands an update.  Until that happens, every
> flash video requires a click to enable it.  The big problem is,
> even if the flash player is automatically updated by the distro,
> ~/.mozilla/pluginreg.dat doesn't get rebuilt by Firefox, so it
> keeps complaining even after the update.
>
> Is there any way to turn off the nag?  I make presentations with
> embedded flash, and it really sucks to have the nags show up in
> front of an audience.
>
> Keith
>
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