At long last, Adobe announced that it would “stop updating and distributing Flash Player” and are giving until 2020 to phase it out completely. Marketo not-so-subtly reminding everyone to renew your URLs), something else BIG happened.

Chromium-based browsers will also drop Flash support starting with Chromium version 88 which is coming on January 2021.In the midst of all of last week’s drama (e.g. Starting in version 84, Mozilla will remove all NPAPI code from the browser which is required to run Flash. If Microsoft didn't change its plan regarding the Flash removal, it will be discontinued in the Edge Beta on December 7th, 2020, and in the Stable version on January 21st, 2021.Īdobe will stop distributing and updating Flash Player after December 31, 2020.Īdobe Flash is now the only NPAPI plugin that Firefox supports. Meanwhile, the Dev, Beta and Stable channels still retain integration with the Flash Player component. Even if you click on 'Check for updates', you will end up with an error. If you open the edge://components page, if you'll see Adobe Flash Player - Version: 0.0.0.0. Microsoft Edge Canary, which hosts Chromium 88-based builds, didn't receive it. However, not all Edge versions received this update. Exploitation of CVE-2020-9746 requires an attacker to insert malicious strings in an HTTP response that is by default delivered over TLS/SSL.

The update includes a fix that resolves a critical security vulnerability CVE-2020-9746. They do so because of performance and battery life reasons as well as because security vulnerabilities are discovered in the Flash plugin.Ī security update for Adobe Flash Player was released on Patch Tuesday. These days, there are a large number of users who disable Adobe Flash. RECOMMENDED: Click here to fix Windows issues and optimize system performanceĪdobe Flash could be used to play videos and animated content.

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