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Tue, 22 Mar 2016 22:53:51 -0400
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On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 1:03 PM, Keith Lofstrom <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Is there a way to TURN OFF Firefox "flash is insecure" nagging,
> or FORCE "Always Activate" when it is grayed out in about:addons?

Use Chrome? Or lynx? Or Emacs? Or *anything* to avoid the suckitude
that is modern Firefox?

> I run 32 bit SL6.x on most of my machines, which means running
> the older enterprise version of Firefox.  Three experimental
> machines are slowly being upgraded to 64 bit SL7.2, fixing
> legacy incompatabilities and gratuitious behavior changes
> before upgrading the rest.  Google Chrome is no longer
> supported for 32 bits, and Google spyware is an issue anyway.

Time to get off 32 bits, I think. Can you afford some hardware changes?

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