MOZILLA HAS taken another big step on the road to finally eradicating that puss-oozing skank Flash from the face of the earth.As planned, from Firefox 55, the malevolent has-been plug-in will be ”Ask to Activate” meaning that each instance of Flash content will require authorisation to play. So, you know, just don’t.Flash, created by Adobe who continue to maintain it for security reasons until such time as they can kill it off, has been slowly dropped by the major browser makers. It’s now completely gone from Google Chrome (unless you fiddle under the hood) and Opera, is Click to Play in Internet Explorer, and never existed in Microsoft Edge. Not that anyone cares about Edge.Flash was spared the chopping block when other NPAPI (Netscape heritage) plug-ins were blocked last year, but now the time has come for the bloated corpse of web animation past to receive yet more marching orders.The move will also mean that, de facto, Firefox will now automatically favour HTML5 content, bringing it into line with its rivals.
Källa: Mozilla confirms that Flash will be ’Ask to Activate’ starting with Firefox 55
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