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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 gman003 on Tuesday July 26 2016, @12:39AM
Firefox doesn't seem to come with Flash installed. I still don't have even a standalone flash player on my tablet PC - I have concerns about what it might do to the battery life, and I so rarely need it. Worst-case I just bookmark the tab and watch it on my laptop later (my laptop's battery never lasted long anyways, and the years have made it basically a desktop that fits into a backpack).
IIRC Chrome is the only browser to have built-in support for Flash, since they did something with their plugin API and normal Flash won't work. IE does not ship with Flash, I highly doubt Safari does, and I actually can't seem to get Flash to work with Vivaldi at all (though I haven't really tried).