Microsoft Announces Flash Killing Off Dates

Adobe will retire Flash Player by December 2020, and a long time ago, most browser developers confirmed that by that time, support for this software would be pulled from their applications as well.

Because Microsoft is now working on a new browser, the company came back to provide fresh information on how and when it plans to kill off Flash in all of its browsers, and these include the original EdgeHTML Edge version, the new Chromium-based Edge, and Internet Explorer.

Specifically, Microsoft says that the new Chromium-based Edge will align with the rest of the Chromium-based browsers, so once Google Chrome kills off support for Adobe’s platform, Microsoft Edge should do the same as well.

New Edge losing Flash support in line with Chromium

The process will take place in stages, and Flash will first be disabled from the browser and users will be required to enable it per each site. Then, Flash Player will be removed at some point next year complete...