Mozilla plans to disable prechoice Adobe Flash in Firefox 69 according to the official websiteσελίδα company bug-tracking.
Adobe Flash Player is the latest NPAP plugin that Firefox supports. Support for other NPAPI plugins such as Microsoft Silverlight or Java was removed from Firefox in the 52 version. Google also stopped support for NPAPI addons from 2015 in Chrome.
Firefox continued to support Adobe Flash, as did Google, which integrated Adobe Flash into the Chrome browser 2010, and Microsoft did the same in the latest Windows browsers.
Mozilla, Google as well as other devs browsers are naturally ready to shut down Flash completely since Adobe decided to withdraw 2020.
So Mozilla is getting ready two different actions for Flash 2019:
- At the beginning of 2019, a visible warning will be displayed to Firefox users about using Flash.
- Later in 2019: Disable Adobe Flash by default in Firefox.
Adobe Flash was a pioneer technology many years ago, but its popularity has declined noticeably in recent years. New web standards were introduced that replaced Flash software. Although there are still pages that use Flash, this technology plays a less important role in today's Internet than it did ten years ago.
Mozilla plans to disable Adobe Flash in Firefox starting with version 69. Firefox's release schedule gives September 3, 2019 as the release date for stable version 69. Mozilla will of course disable Flash first in the Nightly version of 69, then in the channel Beta and finally to Stable.
Disabling means that Flash can no longer be used by default unless it is re-enabled by the user. Firefox will no longer prompt users to enable Flash when some require it websites, but will allow Flash to be enabled in the browser.
The next steps for removing Flash will be 2020 and 2021. Support for Flash will be completely removed from all versions of Firefox except Firefox ESR 2020. Firefox ESR will continue to support Flash until the end of 2020.
Google and other browser makers are planning to end their support for Flash.
It remains to be seen what happens to websites like Archive.org that need Flash, because they have thousands of Flash games and applications.
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