[colug-432] Mozilla and Google conspiracy

[Rob Funk]

On Monday, October 08, 2012 07:33:12 PM Rick Troth wrote:
> I think what put me off (starting before April, maybe late last year)
> was that a FF upgrade broke Flash, or vice versa.  I blew quite a lot
> of hours on it, then decided to cling to the older FF.

Flash is dying anyway, in favor of HTML5 and modern Javascript. My company 
used to do about 80-90% Flash, and now it's more like 10-20%. Adobe has 
discontinued mobile Flash, and has also discontinued the Netscape-interface 
Linux plugin so that the only way Flash will be available on Linux past 
Flash 11.2 is built into Chrome. Adobe even has a tool for developers to 
convert Flash to HTML5/Javascript.

> I explicitly DO NOT trust the self-update feature, but that's a whole
> nutha thread.

You can be fairly current without relying on the auto-update.
Honestly, I rely on Ubuntu's install of Firefox (and an external Ubuntu 
archive for current-ish open-source Chromium), and just keep Ubuntu 
reasonably current. I currently have Firefox 15 (current) and Chromium 20 
(2 versions behind).