We have been working with Adobe to fix these problems, but they have persisted for several years now.
We also know first hand that Flash is the number one reason Macs crash. “Symantec recently highlighted Flash for having one of the worst security records in 2009.
He spent hundreds of words explaining his reasoning, but here’s the summary: Flash totally sucks. Before he died, former Apple CEO Steve Jobs famously wrote an open letter to Adobe about why the iPhone wouldn’t support Flash. It is time for Adobe to announce the end-of-life date for Flash and to ask the browsers to set killbits on the same day.- Alex Stamos July 12, 2015īasically, people want to kill Flash on the web. Heck, Facebook’s new chief of security recently called for Adobe to start preparing for Flash’s funeral: Today’s anxiety came from a decision by the popular browsers Chrome and Firefox to temporarily block the technology over security concerns. That’s changed in recent years, but Flash is still kicking. Flash eats battery life and makes computer fans run loud, but it’s been important to many developers, which is why they freaked out a bit today.įlash used to power much of what you viewed on the web, including games. The Binding of Isaac? The original version ran like crap, but that was Flash, too. Did you enjoy Alien Hominid? Thank Adobe Flash.
