Re:Flash Player is about to stop working on Windows 10
by skymt on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @05:16PM
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MS and Google have already said so. Flash will be blocked from loading in every version of Chrome next month, and the next version of Chrome to ship will remove all Flash support entirely from the codebase. Chromium-based Edge will follow suit.
https://www.chromium.org/flash-roadmap#TOC-Upcoming-Changes
https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2019/08/30/update-removi...
Re:Flash Player is about to stop working on Windows 10
by wolco2 on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @05:41PM
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Is firefox safe from the purge?
Re:Flash Player is about to stop working on Windows 10
by kaszanka on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @05:48PM
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No. Firefox will drop support for the Flash plugin with Firefox 85 (January 26, 2021), but there's a cutoff date of January 12, 2021 in the plugin itself, after which it will not work even in earlier versions of Firefox.
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/end-support-adobe-flash
So you have two copies of flash on your Win10 computer. One is an OS library that you can see a bit of in the control panel. This is what Microsoft is removing with this update. The other is a containerized copy that Chrome and Edge ships with. That copy isn't going away until MS and Google say so, and if their metrics say there's a lot of flash use, then its going to stay for a while, maybe forever as a whitelist-only legacy technology. Its kinda this already, but I'm guessing it could be stricter, like forcing people to go deep into a menu to activate flash instead of helpfully popping up about it.