Be on the safe side by disabling Flash in your Browser!- SourceMasters

Saturday, July 18, 2015

Be on the safe side by disabling Flash in your Browser!

We all know about the major security flaws identified by experts after discovering 400GB of Hackers documents a week ago!
With the latest advancement in technology in browsing platforms and in HTML languages, we actually don't need any flash plugins to stream videos online in  browsers.

Today our team, SVR! decided to show their users how to disable flash plugin from their browsers

Before going into the process, let us know the famous browsers that support Flash Plugin include:

  • Chrome
  • FireFox
  • Internet Explorer
  1. Chrome: 
  • After logging into chrome, Press f6 for targeting browser address bar.
  • Copy paste this text "chrome://plugins/" in browser address bar  and press enter.
  • Click on disable to disable flash plugin from chrome.
  • That is it flash removed!
Image Credit: Chrome Composition
      2. FireFox: 
  • Open your Firefox browser, press f6 for highlighting the address bar.
  • Copy paste this text "about:addons" in browser address bar and press enter.
  • There you would found "SHOCKWAVE FLASH" 
  • Just select "never activate" from right side drop down list.
  • That is it flash removed!
Image Credit: FireFox Composition

      3. Internet Explorer(IE): 
  • For IE, it is very simple to disable flash!
  • Open IE, press ALT +  X for opening Internet Options
  • Then immediately press M on keyboard by leaving the ALT key to select Manage Addons directly. well, you can do it manually also 
  • From the "Toolbars and extensions" Select Flash player plugin and click on disable button
  • That's it flash removed!
Image Credit: IE Composition
    4.  Safari: 

  • Safari users, go to preferences tab which is under menu then select security.
  • Select website settings options then click on Internet plug-Ins option
  • Select Adobe Flash Player from the left pane and select Block from Drop Down list
  • That is it flash removed!
Did we miss something? Let us know in comments :)


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