firefox && HTML5 && flash

[mfv]

On Sat,  19 Oct 2013 23:31:17 clutton wrote:
> Of course it is not!
> I'm a FreeBSD user and Klemens lives in Germany...
> FreeBSD users and Germans don't do such things...
> 
> :)
> 
> BTW. If you see green install button, it means that firefox addons team
> had approved this addon. And all sources is available on github.
> And you can always see the sources. It's just JS.
> 
> On Sat, 2013-10-19 at 21:28 +0000, Matthias Apitz wrote:
> > El día Saturday, October 19, 2013 a las 02:29:32PM -0400, mfv escribió:
> > > > And the flash disable addon (I didn't try it, 'cause I don't have the
> > > > flash plugin installed):
> > > > https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/flashdisable
> > > 
> > > I received this message a couple of minutes after requesting a solution
> > > to
> > > switch between flash and HTML5.
> > > 
> > > I tried the third option and it meets my needs. If I need to switch from
> > > one mode to the other it is a simple matter of clicking on the button
> > > that appears on the toolbar and then reload the page.  If the button is
> > > red, flash can be used, if it is greyed-out HTML5 is loaded.
> > 
> > Hello mfv,
> > 
> > Isn't it risky to install such kind of software? What about if it is
> > recording your future keystrokes?
> > 
> > Thx
> > 
> > 	matthias

Hello clutton and Matthias,

Thanks for the following information.  The download button for flashdisable 
was indeed green so I assume the firefox folks reviewed the code.  
After looking at their security notes I verified that add-ons where reviews 
are pending are marked as experimental and have buttons with yellow and orange 
stripes.

After installing this add-on I ran clamscan and did not find any viruses.  Are 
there any other precautions I should take?

As far as potential threats go, I do have a concern that the binary code is on 
one site and the source code on another.  In this situation it seems that 
bait-and-switch is possible.

Cheers ...

Marek