Mozilla bans Flash on Firefox because of “vulnerabilities”

On top of that, an update by Adobe’s Security Bulletin team has revealed that the previous Flash Player update exploit can actually allow hackers to take control of your computer.

Companies are growing increasingly disinterested in putting up with Flash’s problems, as evidenced by Mozilla’s latest move: it had blocked all vulnerable versions of Flash in its Firefox browser.

Actually for those of us who were around then Jobs was more anxious that Flash was breaking his coding and although he did say that Flash had one of the “one of the worst security records in 2009” it was a bit like the pot calling the kettle black.

Facebook security chief Alex Stamos said a date for killing off Flash altogether must be decided upon soon. Mozilla also advised people on how to change Firefox settings in order to allow Flash to run only when the users wants it not always.

Adobe has been actively working to fix these issues, but Flash seems to be extremely targeted by hackers and it’s likely to not stop.

On a support page, Mozilla said that all versions of Flash had been automatically disabled and were no longer usable.

Flash Player is widely used on many websites for video, multimedia and interactive features.

Adobe’s Flash software has been castigated and blocked by security professionals, following the release of three zero-day vulnerabilities in the space of two weeks.

After the recent exposures of malware in Flash, most of the big browsers have withdrawn Flash support, choosing instead to replace it with HTML5.

When you install Adobe Flash, a Preference Pane is placed in OS X System Preferences called Flash Player.

Adobe took security “very seriously” and was making “extensive efforts” internally to harden Flash against attackers, it told tech news site The Register.

Flash was once the software to watch video on the web, but that position has been dwindling ever since Jobs’ 2010 rebuke and there are now plenty of alternatives.