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Re:Firefox makes click-to-activate Flash the default by JackWebbHeller on Tuesday July 14, 2015 @04:18AM (#9883475)
The update process is horrendous. Redirect to Adobe's website, follow a 3-step 'wizard' - where Step 2 is a placebo 10-second loading bar saying it is "initialising" - and Step 3 is an advertisement for installing other crap from Adobe.

After all that you have to download a DMG, close all your applications and reinstall from scratch. Why not just build in an auto-update in the background and be done with it...

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Re:Firefox makes click-to-activate Flash the default by rockdoe on Tuesday July 14, 2015 @05:41AM (#9883727)
If you're on Windows and are not careful you risk ending up with McAffee as a drive-by!
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Re:Firefox makes click-to-activate Flash the default by mschuster91 on Tuesday July 14, 2015 @04:49AM (#9883569)
On Windoze, I always go to google for "flash player distribution3" and install the MSI packages for enterprise deployment. That keeps me from the malware bundle.
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