Adobe Flash is probably the biggest reason for the pervasiveness of active content on the Internet. But the whole world has known for years that the Adobe Flash browser plugin is a dangerous piece of ...

To help protect users from outdated, compromised third-party plugins like Adobe Flash, Microsoft Silverlight and Java, Firefox will stop automatically loading third-party plugins. The only exception ...

Adobe has stopped developing Flash Player for Google Android and BlackBerry Tablet OS. The new Google Chrome web browser for Android doesn’t support the current version of Flash. Apple has never ...

Starting in Firefox 69, Mozilla will be disabling support for the Adobe Flash plugin by default. This is being done as part of the roadmap set forth by Mozilla on how they will be ultimately disable ...

Just as it did with some versions of Java, Apple has now blocked older versions of Adobe’s Flash plugin to protect Mac users from security risks. In a new support document posted to its website on ...

As part of an upcoming roundup of the major browsers, we tested their abilities to handle Flash. Two browsers, Mozilla Firefox and Opera, do not include Flash, although you can download a plugin from ...

Microsoft has finally released an update for the Flash Player plugin that ships with Internet Explorer 10, patching vulnerabilities that Adobe has long since addressed for anyone using the standalone ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Adobe will no longer update its Flash plugin for mobile browsers, though it will continue to issue security ...

Adobe last week detailed plans to retire its Flash Player software, a cross-platform browser plugin so powerful and so packed with security holes that it has become the favorite target of malware ...

Binary browser plugins using the 1990s-era NPAPI (“Netscape Plugin API”, the very name betraying its age) will soon be almost completely squeezed off the Web. Microsoft dropped NPAPI support in ...

It wasn’t enough for Adobe to put the kibosh on the mobile version of its Flash media plugin—a group riffing on the Occupy Wall Street movement wants to see Flash buried six feet under. Occupy Flash ...

This is going to be a very short "How To" article directly addressing the concerns that loyal readers and commenters have raised in my last article. "Matrix" indicated that when he tried Linux he was ...