Kill Flash
The end of Adobe Flash may be near, following the news that Mozilla’s Firefox now blocks Flash by default.
According to a report by The Verge, Firefox’s Mark Schmidt confirmed that all versions of Flash Player are now blocked by the browser.
Mozilla’s move follows an announcement by Facebook’s security officer Alex Stamos, who asked Adobe to announce an “end-of-life date” for Flash.
Schmidt said Firefox users can enable Flash if they want, through the settings menu.
Mozilla and Facebook’s open stance against Flash follows YouTube dropping the multimedia software in favour of HTML5 in January 2015.
Update: The Verge has reported that Mark Schmidt sent out a second statement, noting that future versions of Flash may be enabled by default if Adobe releases a new version.
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