Mozilla is finally killing Flash next month (mostly)

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by Sindy Cator on July 20, 2016 at 5:12 pm

Today, Mozilla announced its plans to do away with the thorn in our side that is Flash. Starting August 2016, with Firefox 48, Mozilla will block all Flash content deemed “not essential to the user experience.” The move is the first in a series that will finally kill Flash for good. In 2017, Mozilla plans to up the ante by requiring click-to-activate approval for Flash, meaning a user will have to jump through another hoop to run Flash in the browser. It’s also planning to block Flash content that’s not visible to users, although a timeframe for this was unavailable.…