Hence, back in 2017, Adobe announced that along with their technology partners, Google, Mozilla, Apple, Microsoft, and Facebook, it is planning to end-of-life Flash.

Now, browser vendors prefer to integrate these capabilities directly into browsers and deprecate plugins. These technologies now come with various capabilities and functionalities for which we used to have plugins. In recent years, we have seen a huge growth in web open standards like HTML5, WebGL, and WebAssembly. Why Mozilla has decided to disable Adobe Flash? The Firefox Extended Support Release (ESR) will continue to support Flash till its end-of-life in 2020. Flash support will be completely removed from the consumer versions of Firefox by early 2020. Users can still activate Flash on certain sites if they want to, through the browser settings. If (swfobject.hasFlashPlayerVersion('10.0.Yesterday, the Firefox team disabled the Adobe Flash plugin by default in Firefox Nightly 69, which will be eventually deprecated as per Mozilla’s Plugin Roadmap for Firefox.

And overall it was better in preferring fallback content, now it is sort of preferring non-flash. Before changes in this commit flash was hidden so such code redirected to no-flash page. I kind of prefer hide behavior, I've already restored `_ctp_plugin Shockwave Flash` in my config.ĭo you plan to support case like ? Where they detect if flash is supported with JS and redirect to beta page. This significantly changed behavior from 'hidden' to 'fallback' mode in nightly.

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