Adobe Flash will be disabled by default in Firefox 69

Starting with Firefox 69, Mozilla will disable support for the Adobe Flash plug-in by default.

In July 2017, Adobe announced that Adobe Flash would be in late 2020: Adobe plans to end Flash. Specifically, we will stop updating and distributing Flash Player by the end of 2020 and will encourage content creators to migrate any existing Flash content to these new open formats.

Adobe explained this choice is due to the fact that for years it has played "an important role in advancing interactivity and creative content (video, games and more) on the Web." with its plugin in flash.

“When there was no format, we invented it, for example with Flash and Shockwave. And over time, as the web has evolved, these new formats have been adopted by the community, and in some cases they have served as the basis for open standards and have become an essential part of the web.

"But Given open standards such as HTML5, WebGL, and WebAssembly have matured in recent years, most now offer various possibilities and features that plugins have released and have become a viable alternative for content. in the web.

Over time, we have seen applications evolve into plugins, and more recently many of these plugin features have been incorporated into open web standards.

Nowadays, most of the browser vendors integrate the functions directly into the browsers that were provided only by plugins and make them obsolete. "

Flash will be remembered by many

Browser publishers have announced the removal of Flash support.

It should be noted that this announcement was not made unilaterally. With the security concerns posed by abandoning Flash, lThe web giants that provide browsers have also made announcements related to this topic.

Google, for its part, explained at this time that “Chrome will continue to phase out Flash support over the next few years, first asking for your permission to run Flash in more situations and finally disabling it by default.

By the end of 2020, we will completely remove Flash from Chrome.

Respecto a Microsoft, the firm said that in this year 2019, Flash will be disabled by default in Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer.

Users who wish to can reactivate them manually in each browser. And by the end of 2020, it will no longer be possible to run Flash on all versions of Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer.

Mozilla also gave his plan 

“Starting next month, users will choose the websites that can run the Flash plug-in.

Flash will be disabled by default for most users in 2019, and only users running the Extended Support Release (ESR) of Firefox will be able to continue using Flash until full shutdown at the end of 2020. "

Flash support disabled by default in Firefox 69

To give developers and users time to prepare for the end of Flash's life, Mozilla has released a roadmap for the Firefox plugin that provides a timeline of how they plan to remove plugin support.

NPAPI plug-ins pose a security risk because they run in the user's security context and are not in a sandbox or protected by the browser.

For this reason, Google already removed support for NPAPI plugins in Chrome in 2013.

In this roadmap, Mozilla explains that it will disable Flash plugin support by default for 2019, and then it will completely remove Flash support for 2020 to match Adobe's official EOL calendar.

• 2019: Firefox will disable the default Flash plugin. Users will not be required to enable Flash, but it will still be possible to enable Flash on certain sites using browser settings.
• 2020: In early 2020, Flash support will be completely removed from major versions of Firefox. The Firefox Extended Support (ESR) version will continue to support Flash until the end of 2020.
• 2021: When Adobe stops shipping security updates for Flash in late 2020, Firefox will refuse to load the plug-in.