Death of Flash inches closer as Mozilla blocks Firefox plugin

It's not looking good for Flash.

Mozilla's web browser Firefox blocked Flash Player, Adobe's once-ubiquitous browser plugin that brought us multimedia, games and video throughout the naughts, on Tuesday

A message on Firefox's add-on page for Flash reads, "Flash Player Plugin 18.0.0.203 has been blocked for your protection." As noted on the plugin page, "old versions of the Flash Player plugin have known vulnerabilities."

Mark Schmidt, head of Firefox support at Mozilla, tweeted the news along with an image that reads "occupy Flash." In posting it, Schmidt clearly positions himself in the “Flash must go” camp. Read more...