So Firefox has banned Flash. I’m seeing one disadvantage – it makes it harder to play my favourite online game – and one advantage – I’m seeing a lot fewer advertisements.
Any other consequences of Mozilla’s decision?
It’s already fixed and the “ban” is over.
I wouldn’t quite say that they have banned it. You can use Flash as long as you accept the warning prompt.
Ah well, back to seeing all those Flash ads.
it is still blocking Flash for me…
I’ve hit several sites where it won’t accept the override. One is the very dangerous USPS site.
It’s my understanding that Adobe has released an update which has resolved the problems Firefox was objecting to, and all is now well.
Version 18.0.0.209.
All is well until the next exploit comes around tomorrow morning.
My Flash (and in fact, all of my Adobe products) is far out of date, because I got sick of the update installers crashing partway through every single time I tried to update them. So now, every day and a half when there’s a new update, I just quit the updater. It remains to be seen if I ever actually use Flash, but so far, I’m not seeing any drawbacks.
What’s an alternative to Flash if I want to, say, watch anything on YouTube?
Youtube already uses HTML5 by default.
Assuming you’re not using Linux.
There are, of course, many different Flash-stopping plug-in and add-on utilities available. Many are free or even donate-what-you-wish.
Be careful when searching for them, of course, and from whom you download them.
Many sites will bundle such goodies with malware-packing installers :mad:
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Wouldn’t have known because Firefox is not my default browser - Chrome is, and that comes preloaded with Flash. 
I think I’d be in trouble if I couldn`t use Flash.
I’ve had that update for two weeks already. I am very confused by all this, some of it seems contradictory and an overreaction.
I got a warning the other day but I just figured it meant Flash was out of date. I updated Flash and it stopped happening.
The problem was there was a period of about a day where there was no update to Flash–the most current version was 18.0.0.203, but it had vulnerabilities brought to light by the Hacking Team hack, and exploits were in the wild for them.
So from Tuesday evening when Firefox enabled the block to Wednesday afternoon when Adobe released the update there was no way to get Flash not to block by default–“update now” links would only lead to the current version already marked as vulnerable (which could be a bit confusing), so the “ask to activate” was the only thing you could do with it.
At the time I posted, YouTube was still showing a blank window with the “disabled for your protection” notification. Things are now opening again.