RIP Flash

Mozilla is a free software community created by members of Netscape. The community uses,develops and supports Mozilla products thereby promoting exclusively free software and open standards with only minor expectations. Mozilla produces many products such as the Firefox web browser,Thunderbird email client, Firefox Mobile web browser, Firefox Mobile Operating system, Bugzilla bug tracking system and other projects. Firefox is a web browser and Mozilla's flagship software product . It's available in both desktop and mobile version. Firefox uses the gecko layout engine to render web pages, that implements current and anticipated web standards. As of late 2015 Firefox has approximately 10-11% of world wide usage share of web browser making it the 4 th most used web. Now Firefox will start blocking Flash content by next month. Mozilla is joining the other major browser developers by intelligently auto pausing the flash with more to come in 2017. Following the footsteps of major browsers Firefox is taking a serious of steps to reduce Adobe flash usage in near future. It recently announced the Firefox will block certain flash content that's not essential to user experience . By blocking non Essential flash should reduce crash and browser hang ups by as much as 10% . The initial blocked content will be restricted to a specific list with the plans to add more block targets to list overtime.By 2017 it will make all flash content click to play by default. It just mean to say that no flash content will automatically start playing when you load a tab. You will have to manually authorize flash content to start. Firefox was the last major browser to give flash a serious kick to the curb. Google Chrome started pausing non essential flash content more than a year ago. Microsoft followed Chrome's lead with Edge in April. Apple meanwhile added a click to play functionality to safari 7 in 2013. While Firefox is seriously reducing the flash's importance , Adobe's technology will remain a plugin option for the foreseeable future. Similar to Chrome Firefox will discontinue support for NPAPI plugin such as Java and silvernight in March 2017 after pushing back its original plans to end plugin support in late 2016.