Mozilla Firefox 85 to Drop Flash Once and For All

Adobe has already announced that it plans to completely retire Flash Player in December, and the entire industry is preparing for this big moment. Adobe’s decision was officially shared in 2017, so browser makers out there had more than three years to pave the way for a world without Flash. And now Mozilla is killing off support for Adobe’s software too, first in the testing builds of Firefox and then in the stable branch. Firefox 85 will be the first major version of Mozilla’s browser that will ship without Flash Player support, and this will happen on January 26. In other words, Firefox 84 will be the final update that would still boast Flash Player, after which the code would just be removed once and for all. “Firefox version 84 will be the final version to support Flash. On January 26, 2021 when we release Firefox version 85, it will ship without Flash support, improving our performance and security. For our users on Nightly and Beta release channels, Flash su...