Note that the choices here recently changed. In Chrome 42: Hamburger menu -> Settings -> scroll down, then click on the Show advanced settings link -> Content settings button -> Plug-ins section -> Let me chose when to run plugin content. For Chrome, the procedure is also the same on Chrome OS. For each browser, the procedure is the same on both Windows and OS X Yosemite. In the latest versions of Chrome (v42) and Firefox (v38), this is easily done with a configuration change. For whatever reason, Adobe does not report the latest version of Flash on Chrome OS.Ī third defensive strategy is not running Flash content by default. If, like me, you find this too long to remember, I link to it at the very top of the home page. If your OS/browser combination does not automatically update the Flash Player, then you can check if you have the latest version at /software/flash/about/. You can either enable ActiveX filtering (off the Tools menu) or disable the Shockwave Flash Object add-on (Tools -> Manage add-ons). There are two ways to disable Flash in IE 11 on Windows 8. Internet Explorer on Windows 8 includes Flash, IE on Windows 7 does not. If you restrict Flash to Chrome, than any warning that it needs to be updated is a scam.įirefox ships without Flash, so leave it that way. You can't forget to update Flash or be tricked by a scam popup warning that an update is desperately needed. Google does a reasonably good job of keeping the Flash Player up to date with bug fixes and, most importantly, it does so silently. It comes embedded in the Chrome browser and that's fine. On Windows, I suggest not installing Flash at all. There are four things we can do to defend ourselves from the bug magnet that is the Flash Player. Steve Jobs did the world a favor when he banned Flash from iOS.
Putting it another way, after 18 years of work, Adobe produced such poor software that in its 19th year it needed 143 bug fixes. I started tracking it on my site back in 2003. What a disgrace, especially when you consider that Flash is a mature product. This is truly shocking for an entire calendar year, Flash has averaged 2 bug fixes every 5 days. That's 11.9 a month., one every 2.5 days or 2 every 5 days. The last 12 months have thus seen 143 bugs in the Flash Player. Going back further, to last May, we add in another 65 bug fixes.
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