Flash compatibility

Hi,
Also having problem with Flash since installing OSX Lion. I know Apple don't like Flash, but whether I'm in Firefox or Safari, it just brings up the Accept or Deny box for viewing videos and it won't let me select either of them. Anyone else having problems or is it a setting issue I need to change?
OMB

You would think, though, that a QuickTime flash track could be made to be reasonably safe by limiting the scope of the player. We lost some JavaScript capability and some HREF track capability because QuickTime was capable of performing script actions *outside of QuickTime*. While I fail to see why QuickTime launching a web browser and passing a URL is any different than any other application launching a browser and passing a URL...and I fail to see why a MySpace scripting vulnerability would be Apple's problem...the security risks of such a configuration are pretty obvious.
But with Flash, we're talking about giving an interactive track within the movie the ability to accept user input and exercise control over QuickTime Player and the other tracks within the movie. Perhaps it was possible for Flash to do other things within a QuickTime movie, but for the purposes of movie interactivity, and probably just about every application in which QuickTime has been called on to play back Flash, the scope of Flash scriptability can be limited to the QuickTime player, possibly even to the movie in which the track is actually playing. I would think that limiting the scope of the Flash media handler would solve virtually all of the security problems with Flash within QuickTime without actually disabling the media handler.
I think what bothers me the most about this is that Apple makes a big deal about the fact that movies created with the very first version of QuickTime will still play in QT 7.4, but they conveniently overlook the fact that many movies created in QuickTime 6 have been rendered unplayable by a "security" update.
--Dave Althoff, Jr.

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