Camaleón wrote: > On Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:32:14 -0500, Stephen Powell wrote: > >> On Tue, 9 Mar 2010 12:45:54 -0500 (EST), Camaleón wrote: >>> My advice is that you get the plugin from Adobe: >> I'm curious. Why do you advise getting the plugin directly from Adobe, >> bypassing the Debian archive? What's wrong with the standard Debian >> package flashplugin-nonfree? > > Sorry, it was not my intention to "bypass" nothing O:-) > > It's just that the installation of the Adobe plugin from the Adobe site > is plain easy to achieve (download, copy and paste), works very well > (plugin is detected by the browser) and you always get the latest plugin > available. > > Greetings, > Hi, with Flash being prone to security problems I would be worried to forget about this "customization" and miss an important update, which the use of Debian packaging system should prevent. When advising this process it would be a good idea to add that subscribing to whatever rss feed announcing Adobe Flash updates is a must. Many Flash targeted attacks take advantage of out of date versions.
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