{"id":172828,"date":"2016-07-21T11:14:36","date_gmt":"2016-07-21T09:14:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=172828"},"modified":"2016-07-21T11:16:25","modified_gmt":"2016-07-21T09:16:25","slug":"firefox-will-soon-turn-flash-off-by-default","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/172828-firefox-will-soon-turn-flash-off-by-default.html","title":{"rendered":"Firefox will soon turn Flash off by default"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From 2017,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/futurereleases\/2016\/07\/20\/reducing-adobe-flash-usage-in-firefox\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Firefox will require click-to-activate<\/strong><\/a> approval from users before a website activates the Flash plugin for content.<\/p>\n<p>Mozilla said the Flash plugin introduced stability, performance, and security issues for browsers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMozilla and the Web as a whole have been taking steps to reduce the need for Flash content in everyday browsing,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n<p>Starting in August, Firefox will block certain Flash content that is not essential to the user experience, while continuing to support legacy Flash content.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese and future changes will bring Firefox users enhanced security, improved battery life, faster page load, and better browser responsiveness.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As websites have switched from Flash to other web technologies, the plugin crash rate in Firefox has dropped significantly.<\/p>\n<p>Firefox will continue this trend by blocking specific Flash content invisible to users. This is expected to reduce Flash crashes and hangs by up to 10%.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We continue to work closely with Adobe to deliver the best possible Flash experience for our users. Our engineering partnership has led to improvements in high-DPI support on Windows, enhanced sandboxing, and an accelerated Flash rendering pipeline that improves performance and stability.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Firefox<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/167759-firefox-47-launched-for-windows-mac-android.html\"><strong>Firefox 47 launched for Windows, Mac, Android<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/164596-firefox-test-pilot-launched.html\">Firefox Test Pilot launched<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/157525-mozilla-bans-youtube-unblocker-add-on-from-firefox.html\">Mozilla bans YouTube Unblocker add-on from Firefox<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2017, Firefox will require click-to-activate approval from users before a website activates the Flash plugin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":132086,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[36,981,2558,975],"class_list":["post-172828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-active","tag-firefox","tag-flash","tag-mozilla"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172828"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172828"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":172848,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172828\/revisions\/172848"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}