Did you hear it? It is the latest dying of Adobe Flash, which could eventually become obsolete with the release of Mozilla Firefox 85 on Tuesday.
Until now, Firefox had been the last of the old guards to support Flash. Apple first design the software in 2010 when it was banned from iPhones and again in 2020 when it refused to support it with Safari 14, and Google and Microsoft abandoned it earlier this year with Chrome 88 and Edge 88 versions , respectively. Although the software was one of the first pioneers in online gaming, video, and animation, Adobe had previously announced it. a long-term strategy to stop Flash Player updates and distribution, encouraging creators to migrate any dependent content to the most modern open formats.
In addition to some notable omissions, Firefox 85 has also added some interesting new features, including network partitioning which works to protect users from tracking supercookies by dividing the browser cache by website.
“Over the years, crawlers have been found that store user IDs as supercookies in increasingly dark parts of the browser, including Flash storage, ETags, i HSTS flags, “Mozilla wrote in a blog post.” The changes we make to Firefox 85 greatly reduce the effectiveness of cache-based supercookies, eliminating the ability of a crawler to use them in multiple places. web “.
Other important additions include changes to the way pages marked in the browser are stored and an option to do so. delete all saved credentials at the click of a button, which could make life easier users who share a computer or they need to clear their browser for privacy reasons.
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