In 2017, Adobe announced that it would stop updating and providing technical support for Flash by the end of 2020. Now, many popular browsers incorporate defaults in their updates that prevent the use of Flash.
One of these browsers is Mozilla Firefox, which will disable support for Adobe Flash by default, starting with Firefox 69. Jim Mathies, senior engineer at Mozilla Security, reports that the company will disable Flash by default in Nightly 69.
Previously, Google and Microsoft had announced a similar plan to remove Adobe Flash Player from their browsers.
As for Mozilla, this step is part of the company's core plan to remove all support for NPAPI plugins. To help developers, Mozilla has laid out a comprehensive timeline for how they are preparing to withdraw all support for NPAPI plugins.
With the rise of technologies like HTML5, WebAssembly, and WebGL, NPAPI plugins are now obsolete. In addition, these plugins are vulnerable to malicious attacks and can pose a security risk to browsers. This is because they run in the user's security environment and are not subject to the protection provided by browsers.
