DoctorBill wrote on 11/28/2015 1:12 PM:
Ed Mullen wrote:
DoctorBill wrote on 11/28/2015 12:24 PM:
I read in several places that Flash Player is
dangerous as it can allow
Viruses and Trojans
into your system.
I went to Mozilla.org then this;
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtube-flash-player/
Is this safe to use on SM 2.33.1 ? Using XP.
Please eschew comments on XP !
Why do all these say they are for YouTube ?
Do they work only on YouTube and nothing else ?
Danke, danke.
DB
That is not Flash Player. It's an extension
specifically designed to force You Tube to deliver
videos using Flash rather than HTML5.
If you need the Flash Player/plugin go
download/install it from:
<https://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/>
Remember to UNcheck the McAfee Optional offer.
OK....I read about that, but don't understand Flash from HTML5 (or a
hole in the ground!).
I just ran https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sp0BjFl-a1Y and right clicked
it.
A menu says 'about HTML5 player' at the bottom.
So I have an HTML5 resident player ?
Where did THAT come from !?
The HTML5 spec includes playing videos natively, no plugins/extensions
needed. So, any browser that supports HTML5 will handle it.
I get many web sites that have a big brown (?) square and a message that
says I need to download a player. Of course I don't click on the
download link - fishing for me to download a Trojan or Maleware ?
Depends on the site. And the player it wants you to DL.
Somehow YouTube now works? I have no idea why, since I did not download
anything to play it - I THINK !
At some point you updated to a SeaMonkey version that included HTML5
video capability.
I am guessing that I do not have any control over what SM is doing !
Depends on what you want to control.
--
Ed Mullen
http://edmullen.net/
Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool.
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