Adobe Flash Blocked in Mozilla Firefox

But the nail in the coffin so to speak is that Adobe itself stopped any development for Flash Player for mobiles because it just doesn’t match up to HTML5.

Adobe Flash is the plug-in which enables graphics online such as browser games and animations.

The war against Flash has been stepped up a notch after Firefox blocked every version of Adobe’s plugin from running on its Firefox browser. Indeed, the 400GB of data stolen from Hacking Team earlier this month was said to contain information on Flash vulnerabilities open to exploitation.

Schmidt followed with another tweet explaining that Flash will only be blocked “until Adobe releases a version which isn’t actively exploited by publicly known vulnerabilities”. He also suggested that it is essential to set an end date as it will help web developers across the world to get rid of Flash Player in a controlled manner at once instead of doing it haphazardly.

I noticed the other day that in Firefox, Mozilla had also begun blocking outdated versions of Flash.

Why all the Flash hate?

Recently there have been a spate of Flash security concerns. With iOS, Apple embraced HTML5 as the platform and has been pushing HTML5 for long now. After all, it’s one of the main ways for hackers to compromise your web browser… He called for this shot at Adobe to be fired on the same day.

If you are browsing the internet and are using Chrome or Firefox you will likely start seeing a ton of popup messages telling you that Flash is disabled or you have to update your player.

Once upon a time, Adobe Flash was the most sought-after plugin on the internet.

Many alternatives have been made available to replace Flash. “We don’t want to reduce the reliability and security of our iPhones, iPods and iPads by adding Flash”, Jobs wrote. However, HTML 5 is not an Adobe program, so they are not keen on dropping a program that they create for something that is not theirs.

Stamos and others are advocating that now is the time to put Flash out to pasture.