MEW 250 Pocket Mags problems (again)

Great, thanks Maurice.

Mine is not available to download on pocket mag. Have accessed it via MEW web site.

I emailed them 2 days before christmas and am still waiting a reply although i did managed to sort it out myself.When you went to the help page it said it could not be found . On a different note how can i use the Mew archive without using adobe flash with windows ten and firefox i have tried two of the firefox add ons but they do not seem to work.Thanks Graham

Hello Trevor,

If you still can't download it is a different problem, please try contacting [email protected] as they should be able to get you sorted.

Neil

Hello Graham,

I think you emailed me recently? I'm not sure which flash players work best with the archive; I use Adobe with Firefox and no problems, but I understand you wish to use an alternative.

Can anyone else suggest an alternative firefox plugin that works well with the archive? It would be useful to know what to recommend as I get the occasional query like Graham's.

Neil

I kind of doubt that you'll find one that's compatible enough.

I don't know what Graham's reasons are for not using the Adobe plugin but the usual one is because of security concerns - where many people decline to use it at all. That seems like throwing the baby out with the bathwater to me.

Any exploit through Flash is going to come from the specific website being viewed. It's better, imo, to install Flash but only allow it to be used on specific, trusted websites .... I'm sure the ME website falls into that category and there are many others. Firefox (and presumably other browsers) allows you to do just that - to set the plugin to ask you before running on a webpage. At that point you can say "no"; or allow it to run just that time; or allow it for that website any time (this is suitable for the ME site for example).

It's anyone's prerogative, of course, simply not to install the Flash plugin if they feel that's the easier way but the price they pay is that some web pages, or whole sites, simply won't be available to them. Nor do alternative plugins necessarily improve matters. Flash (on the website) requires a script to be run on the user's machine. Any time that happens there is a risk whether it's the Adobe plugin or any surrogate.