Say goodbye to Flash with Firefox 84: All major browser developers plan to remove Flash support from their browsers by 2020.
Adobe announced its abolition Adobe Flash το 2017. Στη συνέχεια αρκετές εταιρείες όπως η Google, η Microsoft και η Mozilla ανακοίνωσαν με την σειρά τους ότι είχαν προγραμματίσει τον τερματισμό της υποστήριξης της technology in their browsers.
Finally… We are talking about the most vulnerable application ever released….
Adobe Flash will no longer download updates security from 2021 onwards.
Firefox uses an addon to integrate Adobe Flash, which is installed on the system, and into the browser. Google Chrome and other Chromium-based browsers use built-in Flash support.
Flash in Firefox is currently disabled by default, but anyone can turn it on if required by some websites. Flash is the only NPAPI add-on still supported by Firefox. Support for other NPAPI-based add-ons, such as Microsoft Silverlight, has been abandoned by Firefox 52, which was released in March 2017.
Mozilla today revealed it version of Firefox and the month it completely removes Flash from Firefox. According to the schedule, Flash will be removed in Firefox 84 Stable, a release that will be released in December 2020. Flash support will be removed earlier than dev versions. From Firefox Nightly for example, it will be removed in October 2020.
Of course there is always the possibility that these plans will change, due to unbalanced factors. It seems a bit unlikely though, as Adobe will not release any other security updates for Flash in 2021.
Google plans to stop supporting Flash from Chromium in January 2021 with the release of Chrome 88. The change will affect all other Chromium-based web browsers.
