Somewhere out there in the depths of the afterlife, Steve Jobs is smiling.
Mozilla is now declaring Adobe Flash unsafe and vulnerable, disabling it by default in their ever so popular browser Firefox.
If you really want to, you can enable it manually but it is not advised, as it is time for the worst plugin ever created, which unfortunately provided the entirety of animations and external content for browsers before HTML5 to die for good.
The recent Hacking Team events further emphasise this, as so far 3 critical vulnerabilities were found in their codebase. The truth is that, while some embrace it, HTML5 can do Flash's job far better than it can, providing far better security, native integration into browsers and mobile device support.
Goodbye Flash, you served us well when you weren't overheating our systems, compromising our systems and crashing our systems.
Oh wait, you didn't.
Good Riddance, You Won't Be Missed.
I find this HILARIOUS, Chrome dropped it, now firefox is dropping in, one of the most widely used programming languages, some of the most extensive libraries out there, and what does it have to show for it? Instability, flaws, holes, just an all around joke.
ReplyDeleteChrome has been complaining about it all day at me but I have too much stuff open to restart for the update lol.
ReplyDeleteI can't wait for Flash to die. With the continued growth of HTML 5, there is no need for flash anymore. I couldn't die soon enough. Next target: Java.
ReplyDeleteOhhh Yes. Fuck Java. Chrome already dropped NPAPI, so no more Java web apps, now we just need to drop it everywhere else.
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