Any alternative for the Firefox plug-in 'Adobe Flash Player'?

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Fri, 17 Jul 2015 14:49:01 +0200, Myriam Schweingruber wrote:
>For the very obvious reason that a 0-day exploit is inherently more
>dangerous on a less secure system, and Windows is by design less
>secure compared to the *nix-based systems like Mac OS or Linux. 0-day
>exploits can very very diverse, and the most obvious risk is getting
>malware through such an exploit.

The main issue with bloated browsers and crappy extensions such as the
one from Adobe is unrelated to the operating system. Most people
already offend their own privacy by simply typing something into e.g. a
Google search, already without confirming the search by pressing the
enter key.
They should start Firefox with e.g. Google, then launch Wireshark. As
soon as Wireshark hopefully only displays "Keep-Alive", they should type
and watch what Wireshark shows.
As soon as very risky extensions are used or very risky features
provided by a web browser and/or add-ons, the operating system isn't
much involved. The risk is more on a level compared to the risk of a
phishing website. I guess everybody understands that it doesn't matter
what operating system is used, when sending your banking password to a
phishing website. This is similar for a lot of security and privacy
issues caused by web browsers and their extensions.