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Mozilla yesterday said it will follow other browser markers by curtailing use of Flash in Firefox next month.
The open-source developer added that in 2017 it will dramatically expand the anti-Flash restrictions: Firefox will require users to explicitly approve the use of Flash for any reason by any website.
As have its rivals, Mozilla cast the limitations (this year) and elimination (next year) as victories for Firefox users, citing improved security, longer battery life on laptops and faster web page rendering.
"Starting in August, Firefox will block certain Flash content that is not essential to the user experience, while continuing to support legacy Flash content," wrote Benjamin Smedberg, the manager of Firefox quality engineering, in a post to a company blog.
Firefox 48 is slated to ship on Aug. 2.
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Firefox is late to the dump-Flash party.
Original Source: http://www.computerworld.com/article/3098606/web-browsers/firefox-sets-kill-flash-schedule.html
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(Score: 2) by Arik on Monday July 25 2016, @12:19PM
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 25 2016, @01:21PM
Yeah, the Seamonkey Project is doing a fine job.
Its first version was 1.8, continuing from the 1.7x version of the Mozilla Suite (which was a time when the version of Gecko was also in sync).
2.0 was the major XUL re-write that mirrored Firefox 4.0, and included the new JavaScript engine. Gecko's version slowly bumped up to 2.0 around this time as well, although this was coincidence at this point, as Firefox, and not Seamonkey, was now driving the engine development.
2.2 was the first release of the Mozilla rapid-release plan. Firefox jumped from 4.0 to 5.0, and Gecko followed, jumping from 2.0 to 5.0. So somewhere after this, the Seamonkey devs decided that we are still really on the 2.0 branch of Gecko, but decided that the minor revision number would loosely refer to the Browser version. So right now, we are on version 2.40, which is something akin to Firefox 43. The next version will be 2.41, etc.
If Seamonkey follows this transition away from Gecko that Firefox has planned, I guess the next major version would be 3.0. Which would be the third re-write in about 15 years.
Following Seamonkey gives a good idea of what the early open-source Mozilla was like, and is a nice "what-if" where Mozilla isn't flooded with SJW's trying to make quick money about 10 years ago.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 25 2016, @02:44PM
SJW's trying to make quick money
Is SJW now an all purpose insult that means something like "shithead"?
(Score: 0, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 25 2016, @03:05PM
No, SJW refers to people firing or trying to fire other people for not lining up with feminist orthodoxy. You know, something for which Mozilla is something of a poster child.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 26 2016, @12:42AM
The project just spent tens of thousands of dollars to remove all instances of "slave" and "master" from their source code. All the while, market share has plumetted to single digits. I get where you are coming from, but the SJW mentality at Firefox has destroyed a once joble project.