Another option is to install Google Chrome and get more recent versions of Flash provided for you by Google.  As far as I know, Google made an agreement with Adobe to allow Google to support Flash on linux - I'm willing to be corrected on this if someone has a source that negates this premise.

But yes, I agree that Flash is a hell hole of security flaws and problems.  I think most sites are starting to migrate to "HTML5", including some online game companies - hopefully we won't need Flash in the future.

-Chris

On 2013-01-14, at 10:32 AM, Todd And Margo Chester <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
> Over on
>         http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/?promoid=JZEFT
> it states:
> 
>       NOTE: Adobe Flash Player 11.2 will be the last
>             version to target Linux as a supported platform.
>             Adobe will continue to provide security backports
>             to Flash Player 11.2 for Linux.
> 
> Is not Flash a bit of a security nightmare to start with?
> Or is better if we only get backports?
> 
> -T