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		acomjean on July 14, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Firefox makes click-to-activate Flash the default I did the "click to activate" option for flash in firefox. I like it. (Safari and chrome can do this too). This way if flash is activated when really needed. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/set-adobe-flash-click-p... I feel your pain. The university site I'm working on has flash protein visualizations. We're finally moving visualizations to js. We'll get there, but with flash being kinda turned off, users will have to turn it back on manually or our pages won't work till rid of flash.

anon1385 on July 14, 2015 [–]

It's very important to note that click to play for Flash in Chrome is NOT a security feature. Sites can bypass it.

To quote a Chrome developer: "Click to play is not actually a security boundary. In particular, it has always been subject to click-jacking."

https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=174963

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