Adobe Security Updates For Flash and Shockwave 58
nlewis writes "Adobe has finally released updates for their Flash and Shockwave Players. These updates should, in theory, address the security issues outlined in this security bulletin. This issue has been mentioned here previously. Don't expect an update to the equally flawed Acrobat Reader until sometime tomorrow, though."
When will Adobe learn? (Score:4, Insightful)
That aside, to this day, the innovations created by the Adobe of twenty years ago rivals that of any company of any time: TrueType, PostScript, the PDF standard, Photoshop (which is just as much a verb as "Google")... Adobe in the 1980s almost single-handedly created the desktop publishing industry. They made the software, technologies and tools achievable for individuals and small businesses.
Adobe Updates are Exhibit A of how they've fallen from one of the great software companies ever, to the punchline of a joke.
Re:Not to worry about Reader! (Score:2, Insightful)
Acrobat is a different product than Adobe Reader (which used to be called Adobe Acrobat Reader, but isn't anymore). Reader is a pdf viewer, Acrobat can do a bunch more.
The installer for Adobe Reader still weighs in at 30+ megabytes (and my install is taking up 180 megabytes; 60 of that is setup files, I think the updater sometimes 'works' by downloading a whole new install, it isn't clear to me why there are multiple installers).
Also, 9.x is a big improvement over versions 7 and 8.
Re:Flash for 64-bit linux (Score:1, Insightful)
I take it that you've never witnessed Flash running on Mac OS X. That pathetic excuse of a plug-in can bring a quad-core Mac Pro to its knees. Adobe can't produce efficient code, period.
Corporate Crapware. (Score:4, Insightful)
Love it how you don't get to chose where it's installed (on MS Windows). It requires me to exit Opera for the installer to run, even though I don't want the plugin installed in Opera (in fact, it's blacklisted there). Guess simply allowing me to check the applications where I want it installed would be too dangerous, someone might back out at the last minute and all...
How are these updates pushed out onto the unwashed masses anyhow, will the client update itself? If not, when are people who don't care about security-bulletins going to get updated? Will there be an update to flash-authoring tools such that this is the new minimum req. version, forcing updates, or what?