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posted by cmn32480 on Monday July 25 2016, @09:46AM   Printer-friendly
from the 'bout-time dept.

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.

[...]

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 jmorris on Tuesday July 26 2016, @12:08AM

    by jmorris (4844) on Tuesday July 26 2016, @12:08AM (#380107)

    Has there been a month without a critical flaw in Flash Player in the past two years? When is it right to simply say, "ENOUGH!"

    Adobe has made it clear they do not plan to invest the resources needed to make it safe, they are in fact trying to migrate their content creators away from Flash. It is just laziness and inertia keeping Flash alive now, time to put it down. For everyone's safety.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 26 2016, @01:18AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 26 2016, @01:18AM (#380128)

    I'm sure that if Adobe really cared, they'd have complained earlier. Instead of doing that, like they did when iOS killed flash, they've just shrugged their shoulders and moved on. I'm sure they secretly cannot wait for flash to die so they can finally put that behind them. After all, it's not like flash is the big cash cow it used to be.