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Flash-blocking in Edge - when will it roll out to the world?
Essentially, all major browser vendors will stop supporting Flash at the end of 2020, that's the official end of life date for Flash.
Here is the Chromium's official statement: (since both the new Edge and Google Chrome use the same engine)
" Flash Support Removed from Chromium (Target: Chrome 87+ - Dec 2020)"
https://www.chromium.org/flash-roadmap#TOC-Flash-Support-Removed-from-Chromium-Target:-Chrome-87---Dec-2020-
and here is the official statement from Adobe themselves:
Hi HotCakeX , thanks for your reply.
With respect, I already know this. I'm sorry if I didn't phrase my question clearly enough.
There's a specific step on the roadmap for phasing out Flash, which the Chromium roadmap refers to as "Flash disabled by default". Flash gets blocked by default rather than the user being prompted to ask if they want to allow it. Chrome implemented this in the 76 release which rolled out recently. Firefox will be implementing something similar in their Sept 3rd release. My question is, when will Edge be releasing this change?
It was originally scheduled to happen in Edge in "mid to late 2019" (see here: https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2017/07/25/flash-on-windows-timeline/ ) - but that post was written before the 'Chromiumization' of Edge, so I don't know if that's still the plan or if there is now some other schedule. Because the behaviour is now inherited from Chromium rather than being added to Edge specifically, my assumption is that it will just appear whenever the first release of the new Edge comes out.
So, does anyone have an idea of when that might be? 🙂
Thanks
Jason