![]() Standard & Poor's and S&P are registered trademarks of Standard & Poor's Financial Services LLC and Dow Jones is a registered trademark of Dow Jones Trademark Holdings LLC. Dow Jones: The Dow Jones branded indices are proprietary to and are calculated, distributed and marketed by DJI Opco, a subsidiary of S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC and have been licensed for use to S&P Opco, LLC and CNN. Chicago Mercantile Association: Certain market data is the property of Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. ![]() Factset: FactSet Research Systems Inc.2019. Market indices are shown in real time, except for the DJIA, which is delayed by two minutes. So it's not the final nail, but we're getting closer to Flash's death. "To be clear, Flash is only blocked until Adobe releases a version which isn't being actively exploited by publicly known vulnerabilities," Schmidt added. YouTube has been experimenting with playing videos natively in the browser several years ago and officially parted ways with Flash in January 2015.ĭespite the clear momentum against Flash, Mozilla said there's a chance that Flash will be re-enabled on Firefox some day. Though Android smartphones originally supported Flash - and used that fact as a selling point - Adobe killed Flash support for all smartphones in 2011. It habitually tops Symantec's annual list of vulnerable plug-in programs. Jobs was right - Flash does have a miserable security record, and continued to be bug-ridden long after publishing his open letter. ![]() When YouTube launched in 2005, its videos were entirely Flash-based, requiring its audience to install the Flash plug-in software in order to watch YouTube media.īut the tide began to turn in 2010, when Steve Jobs wrote an open letter rant about Adobe's security, blaming the company's Flash player for being "the number one reason Macs crash" and citing Flash for having "one of the worst security records in 2009." It had been widely used a decade ago, powering most of the Web's games, animations and videos. Just under 11% of websites use Flash, according to W3Techs, a technology survey company.įlash is a type of software called "middleware," an add-on extension to the browser that allows rich content to be viewed. The good news for Firefox users is that most won't notice a change. Adobe ( ADBE) did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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