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Browsers are slowly chipping away at the web’s Flash dependency, and now Microsoft is sounding the latest death knell for the technology by blocking Flash from loading altogether. Microsoft says that its next release of Windows 10 will default to HTML5 content when possible and won’t even load Flash content in the background, which should lead to better performance, battery life and security. If a site does rely on Flash, you’ll have to actively select whether you want Flash to load via a prompt. Previously, Edge would pause certain Flash ads and content that weren’t central to sites, but stopping it from…

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