The days of a Flash-flooded Internet are seemingly (finally) coming to a close, as Mozilla said in a blog posted on Wednesday that starting in August, Firefox will automatically block certain ...

Adobe has rushed to counter growing calls to "kill" its commonly used Flash Player, releasing fixes for a duo of bugs that led Mozilla to block it from running on Firefox. Mozilla began automatically ...

Firefox will begin retiring Adobe Flash on August 2 with the release of Firefox 48. In 2017, probably with Firefox 53, Flash plug-ins will require the user to ...

Sullivan is gung-ho about HTML5, which has become a major selling point of Firefox 4, the browser’s latest iteration set launch in the coming weeks. That’s great news for Firefox’s 450 million users, ...

It’s been a rough week for the fate of Adobe’s Flash Player plugin. Yesterday we told you about Facebook’s security chief pushing Steve Jobs’ anti-Flash message and calling on Adobe to announce an end ...

Following in the footsteps of the other major browser, Firefox is taking steps to drastically reduce Adobe Flash usage in the near future. Mozilla recently announced that Firefox will “block certain ...

Mozilla’s next update for Firefox, slated to ship Tuesday, will check for outdated versions of Flash Player, a frequent target of hackers, the company said on Friday. The move is the open-source ...

Starting with the release of Firefox 55, the Adobe Flash plugin for Firefox will be set to "Ask to Activate" by default for all users. This move was announced in August 2016, as part of Mozilla's plan ...

Mozilla isn’t taking any chances after the discovery that Hacking Team, the recently breached surveillance software maker, had three working exploits for Adobe Flash. The open source organization ...

Mozilla will throw another handful of dirt onto the Adobe Flash plugin coffin in September when it disables the long-standing web tool by default. This will be introduced earlier in the Nightly builds ...

Lance Whitney is a freelance technology writer and trainer and a former IT professional. He's written for Time, CNET, PCMag, and several other publications. He's the author of two tech books--one on ...