Smedberg urged any developers still using Flash or Silverlight for video or games to plan on adopting HTML5, if they haven’t already planned on doing so. To start, the company is planning to block a select few types of Flash, mostly SWF files.įlash content that can be blocked without being noticeable to Firefox users, and Flash content where it’s possible to replace the functionality with HTML will come next and are candidates for a blocklist on Github Mozilla is maintaining. “These and future changes will bring Firefox users enhanced security, improved battery life, faster page load, and better browser responsiveness,” Smedberg said before acknowledging that the proliferation of sites running HTML5 for video has led to a gradual decline in Firefox crashes over the last year and a half.īy blocking specific Flash files, particularly invisible ones, Smedberg, claims Firefox should be able to reduce Flash crashes and hangs further – by up to 10 percent. The move, long expected, comes as developers seek to curb usage of Flash in everyday web browsing.īenjamin Smedberg, Manager of Firefox Quality Engineering at Mozilla, confirmed in a blog post on Wednesday that the browser will also begin blocking non-essential Flash content next month, as another step to making the browser run more efficiently. Starting next year, Firefox users who navigate to pages that contain Flash will be asked for their consent before activating the plugin.
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