After Adobe Flash Player's Official Death, Flash Content Now Blocked for Users Warning Them to Uninstall Flash

Urian B., Tech Times 12 January 2021, 09:01 am

(Photo : Screenshot From Michael MJD YouTube) After Adobe Flash Player's Official Death, Flash Content is Now Blocked for Users Warning Them to Uninstall Flash

Adobe has just started blocking widespread Flash content for a number of computer users coming from all around the world by now displaying a warning in its place advising users to uninstall their Flash Player. After a long ride thriving through 1990 and the early 2000s, and then finally limping through towards the 2010s within a post-iPad generation, the Adobe Flash and the Flash Player are now officially retired.

Adobe Flash Player official termination

According to an article by ZDNet, the final Flash update was previously issued back in December as Adobe had announced its final intent to block all Flash content from being able to run starting Jan 12, 2021. A number of months before its final update, Adobe also added code in order to prevent Flash from being able to run inside the browser plugin. This means that avoiding the final update will no longer enable flash content to be able to work.

The warning is said to be presented on about 2% of the total world's websites that still use Flash content. This reportedly happened around a time that Apple co-founder, the popular Steve Jobs stated back in 2010 that Flash is said to be unfit for both the iPad and the iPhones. Flash was only used on nearly about a third of the whole world's websites.

Microsoft urges users to uninstall Flash Player as well

Adobe even stated on its end-to-life page intended for Flash Player that Adobe will finally block Flash content from being able to run in the Flash Player as well as strongly recommending that all of its users uninstall it immediately. The reason for Adobe urging users to uninstall theri Flash is that Adobe won't be able to issue any more Flash Player updates as well as security patches.

In the starting of 2021, Microsoft had actually planned to release a new "update" that was meant for the removal of the Adobe Flash Player spreading through all versions of the new Windows 10. Has now been available as another optional update on the Windows Update Catalog ever since October. However, it will be released through a more broad way via the Windows Update as well as the WSUS over the next coming months.

Mozilla restricts users from using Flash Player

This new update would permanently remove the Adobe Flash Player as a certain component of the Windows devices. Microsoft will now start recommending its users to also install the new update in just a matter of months. This would then become available through the known Windows Update and the WSUS. Once it is installed, users won't be able to uninstall the update anymore.

Mozilla had also announced that it would stop all of the third-party NPAPI plugins in Firefox from actually activating by default. This was announced through the Mozilla official blog. It actually restricted all the plug-inst to the particular click-to-play model. With the exception of the Flash because of the main volume and variety of Flash content found on websites.