Adobe Flash had a more than 20-year run as a major piece of multimedia software. But that is coming to an end. Browsers like Google Chrome are unplugging Flash. Google announced in 2017 that over the ...

Adobe’s proprietary software technology, the Flash browser plugin, is still being called “the standard for delivering high-impact, rich web content” by Adobe. The software can be used to run games, ...

Update, August 29: Google announced that the Flash-pausing feature will begin to roll out from September 1 via an update to Chrome. Prepare to see gray boxes in the places where Flash ads normally are ...

The rumors were true: Adobe and Google are tightening their partnership, seemingly both warily eying Apple in the process – and Mozilla plays a role in this story as well. Concretely, Adobe has ...

Linux users who want to view Flash content will soon have no choice but to do it through Google’s Chrome browser. That’s because Adobe is discontinuing its Flash Player for Linux as a standalone ...

Once upon a time I was working with a Windows user concerned about security. My first suggestion was to block Flash from running automatically in his Chrome browser. As documented on my ...

Google is ready to say goodbye to Flash. Those who use Google's Chrome web browser will find that Adobe's Flash player extension will be phased out by the end of the year in favor of HTML5 as the ...

Google issued a beta release of Chrome for Android earlier today. The browser provides support for modern Web standards and includes a number of compelling features that aren't available in the ...

Binary browser plugins using the 1990s-era NPAPI (“Netscape Plugin API”, the very name betraying its age) will soon be almost completely squeezed off the Web. Microsoft dropped NPAPI support in ...