In 2020, when Adobe stops shipping security updates for Flash, Firefox will simply refuse to load the plugin, Mozilla said. Mozilla, as mentioned, has announced plans to completely remove support for Flash from all consumer versions of Firefox - but the Firefox Extended Support Release (ESR) will continue supporting Flash through the end of 2020. Microsoft for instance said it will disable Flash by default in Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer in mid-to-late 2019, and would fully remove Flash from all Windows versions in 2020.Īs for Google, the tech giant said it would continue phasing out Flash from its Chrome browser for the next few years, “first by asking for your permission to run Flash in more situations, and eventually disabling it by default.”įlash will be completely removed from Chrome toward the end of 2020. Adobe End-of-LifeĪdobe’s announcement of the end-of-life for Flash spurred tech giants across the industry – like Mozilla, Microsoft and Google – to develop their own roadmaps on how they would phase Flash out of their own browsers.īoth Mozilla and Google have said that they would be disabling Adobe Flash in their browsers by default in mid-2018 - but this step is only the beginning as more browsers start to support the transition away from Flash. Thus, it will “encourage content creators to migrate any existing Flash content to these new open formats.”įirefox 69 will be released later this year on Sept. The news follows Adobe’s announcement in July 2017 that it plans to push Flash into an end-of-life state, meaning that it will no longer update or distribute Flash Player at the end of 2020. “Per our Flash (plugin) deprecation roadmap, we’ll disable Flash by default in Nightly 69 and let that roll out,” said Jim Mathies, senior engineering manager at Mozilla in a Bugzilla update on Friday.

The disabled default support means that Firefox users will now be required to manually enable Adobe Flash in Mozilla’s latest browser version, Firefox 69. More importantly, the change signals another step toward the end of Flash in general, as Mozilla and other popular browsers push the plugin off the radar. Mozilla is disabling default support for Adobe’s Flash Player plugin in the latest upcoming version of its FireFox browser, marking the latest step in end-of-life for the infamous plugin.

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