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Firefox to completely remove Adobe Flash

<p>Mozilla plans to completely remove Adobe Flash support from its popular Firefox browser in December 2020&period; This means that Firefox v84 will no longer support Adobe Flash plugin that is used for playing videos and animated content&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-3593" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;wincert&period;net&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2020&sol;03&sol;arrow-1773951&lowbar;640&period;png" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"640" height&equals;"285" &sol;><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Many users already disabled Adobe Flash in their browsers because it may affect performance and drain battery life&comma; not to mention security vulnerabilities discovered in it&period; Even most media web sites have already switched to HTML5 videos&comma; so Flash is not required anymore to play video content&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Adobe Flash is still supported by Firefox with the use of the NPAPI plugin&period; With Firefox version 84 released&comma; Mozilla aims to remove all NPAPI code from its browser and thus completely remove the ability to run Flash&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Chromium-based browsers will also remove Flash support with the release of Chromium version 88 planned for January 2021&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>About that time Adobe will end support for Flash&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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