|
Title: Firefox will start blocking Flash content next month Post by: HCK on July 23, 2016, 04:05:13 pm Firefox will start blocking Flash content next month
<article> <section class="page"> <p> Following in the footsteps of the other major browser, Firefox is taking steps to drastically reduce Adobe Flash usage in the near future.</p><p> Mozilla recently announced that Firefox will “block certain Flash content that is not essential to the user experience (https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2016/07/20/reducing-adobe-flash-usage-in-firefox/)”—in other words, ads and any behind the scenes operations using Flash. Mozilla says that blocking non-essential Flash should reduce crashes and browser hang-ups by as much as 10 percent. The initial blocked content will be restricted to a specific list that Mozilla has put up on Github (https://github.com/mozilla-services/shavar-plugin-blocklist), with plans to add more block targets to the list over time.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3098439/internet/firefox-will-start-blocking-flash-content-next-month.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article> Source: Firefox will start blocking Flash content next month (http://www.macworld.com/article/3098439/internet/firefox-will-start-blocking-flash-content-next-month.html#tk.rss_all) |