Adobe will kill flash in 2020

Adobe is planning to end Flash once and for all, Chrome, Microsoft Edge and Safari have been blocking content for the past year for security reasons. After receiving a lot of criticism, the company intends to end this popular tool by the end of 2020, and also encourages content creators to migrate their creations to new formats.

The end of the Flash era is very near

Despite the fact that its popularity has fallen a lot in recent years, there are still many users who depend on Flash for their daily lives, among them we find the sector of video games, education and online video sites. That is why the support will continue until 2020 with Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Mozilla. Microsoft plans to disable Flash by default in Edge and Internet Explorer during the second half of 2019 and its complete elimination in 2020. Mozilla will also continue to offer users the possibility of using Flash until the end of 2020, as well as Apple with its Safari browser. which requires user approval for each website that wants to install it.

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Therefore it can be affirmed that 2, 020 will be the end of the Flash era, for many years we have other alternative formats such as HTML5 that have been implemented through the most browsers and that constitute an excellent alternative to the Adobe tool by what dependence on it has been greatly reduced or even disappeared.

HTML5 offers much higher levels of security as well as lower power consumption, which is especially important in notebooks.

Source: theverge