Un Flash Player Mac Is Protected

How can you ensure that your Mac is protected from Flash vulnerabilities.

Clearly Apple isnt prepared to leave customers exposed to Flash vulnerabilities.

Apples preference is that customers use HTML5, the newer, safer way of browsing the web.

In fact, Apples Steve Jobs expressed his preference for HTML5 back in April 2010 when he penned his Thoughts on Flash, which you can read here.

If you want to install Flash so that you can watch content from All4 for example, we have this tutorial on How to install Flash on your Mac here.

Flash tends to disappear from your Mac everytime you update the Mac operating system.

Un Flash Player How To Check Whether

We explain how to check whether Flash is installed on your Mac below.

Hopefully Channel 4 will soon update its content to use HTML5.

In fact, in June 2017, Channel 4, announced that it would be tranitioning from Adobe Flash-based video players to HTML5, so an announcement should be immanent.

Go to Finder, click Go in the menu and hold down Alt (or Option) to make the Library folder appear as a drop-down menu.

Java can also suffer from vulnerabilities and has come under fire as the means by which hackers have been able to gain control of computers.

Most recently it was flagged by Apple as a way that the Spectre vulnerabilty could be utilised.

Apple has already stopped bundling Java with OS X by default.

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