Most users of the Google Chrome web browser know that Google has integrated Adobe’s Flash Player in cooperation with Adobe into the web browser. The core advantage here is that Google can update the Flash plugin in the browser for its users. That’s a stark contrast to other web browsers like Internet Explorer, Firefox or [...]

Categories: Browsing, Google Chrome

Lets say you are currently working on a computer where you have standard user rights. This means that you cannot install software that requires elevated privileges, nor that you can perform operations that require admin rights. Many software programs for instance require administrative privileges during installation. Adobe’s Flash Player needs elevated rights during installation, if [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox, Google Chrome, Opera, Tutorials Basic

The Google Chrome developers introduced a native Flash plugin in their browser less than three months ago. This internal plugin improved the traditional browser plugin model. Most noteworthy from a user’s standpoint was the immediate availability after installing Google Chrome and the auto-updating of the plugin to reduce security risks because of outdated plugins. Another [...]

Categories: Browsing, Google Chrome

I decided four weeks ago to uninstall both Adobe Flash and pdf readers from a work computer. The motivation for this move stemmed from the increase in Flash and pdf specific exploits and attacks that put a computer system at risk. There was a downside to it as it became quite complicated to view Flash [...]

Categories: Tutorials Basic

Adobe Flash was natively integrated into the Google Chrome browser two weeks ago. As usual the feature was disabled by default at first and had to be enabled with a startup parameter. The latest update to the developer release version of the Google browser changes this by enabling the Flash plugin by default in the [...]

Categories: Browsing, Google Chrome

One of the first things that many users do after installing a web browser is to install Adobe Flash as it is needed to display many websites and most of the hosted videos on the Internet. The Google Chrome developers have decided to include the Adobe Flash Player plugin into the latest dev version of [...]

Categories: Browsing, Google Chrome

If you’ve spent enough time over the years with Linux you know that the browser plug-in has been a source of agony for many. When plugins first became a necessity for browsing Linux was at an “early” age and adding these plugins was truly a nightmare. That was then, this is now. During my first [...]

Categories: Firefox, Linux, Open Source, Software, Tutorials Basic

Normally you will hear me professing to always install using your Linux distributions’ package management system. This is true for most cases. There is one case, however, that defies that philosophy: Installing Firefox. I have, on many occasions, installed Firefox using the distributions package management system only to have issue with either plugins or updates. [...]

Categories: Advice, Browsing, Firefox, Linux, Open Source, Tutorials Basic