Firefox blocks Adobe Flash Player plugin

Adobe Flash Player has been repeatedly criticized for the large number of known vulnerabilities in the product code. On the eve of the head of Facebook, responsible for information security, called on Adobe to announce the end date for using Flash in browsers. Earlier, Google, in the framework of fighting vulnerabilities in Flash Player, translated Youtube to HTML5.



Mark Schmidt, head of Firefox support, said on his Twitter account that from now on Mozilla Firefox browser will block the use of the Adobe Flash Player plugin. The lock will last until a version is released that eliminates all known vulnerabilities of the plugin.



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The situation now is this:



Firefox even after the update (ubuntu 14.04 x64 from the author of the post) - when loading a page containing a flash, it warns you and the flash video is not displayed. When you try to go to "in detail" or in the extensions page, we see that the plug-in is updated, relevant, but ... as stated above, until certain vulnerabilities are fixed, Firefox will not automatically enable the plug-in when surfing the web.



The term when the situation is “fixed” is not known to me personally. I ask knowledgeable people to comment.



UPD: Since the situation with Chrome is not known to me personally, I don’t write about this browser.



UPD: List of blocked add-ons for firefox .



UPD: For Windows users, everything seems to be fixed. We have in the blocklist version xxx203, and the latest version of the plug-in is already .209, as reported by the Adobe Security Bulletin .



UPD: and for Linux users the plugin has been updated, the locks have disappeared.