Firefox Now Blocks Flash By Default

I am guessing that Mozilla who are the people behind the popular Firefox browser have had enough of exploits via Adobe Flash. I say that because all versions of the Flash Player plugin up to version 18.0.0.203 on Windows have been blocked by default.

If that isn’t enough, the head of Firefox support Mark Schmidt tweeted these out:

And the Firefox Twitter feed tweeted this:

Clearly, the message has been sent to Adobe to fix Flash. Though I will note that Adobe has released version 18.0.0.209 which is not blocked and it isn’t clear if it addresses all of the known issues that made Mozilla block Flash in the first place. But it is clear that momentum is gaining to kill Flash once and for all.

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