When it starts blocking Flash videos and games next year, Mozilla will encourage developers to use in their place technologies built on HTML, which is the underlying language of the web. Later in the year, Mozilla will expand that list to include Flash files used to detect whether consumers view particular web advertisements. Next month, Firefox will start blocking a limited amount of Flash files, mostly those that are used for things like web site usage that are invisible to computer users. This is not a trade-off users should have to accept.” “But plugins often introduce stability, performance, and security issues for browsers. “Browser plugins, especially Flash, have enabled some of our favorite experiences on the Web, including videos and interactive content,” Benjamin Smedberg, manager of Firefox quality engineering at Mozilla, said in a blog post earlier this week. Sometime next year, Mozilla plans to have Firefox block Flash videos and games by default, requiring users who want to view or play them to click on them to activate them. Instead of dropping Flash right away, the open source development organization will reduce its support for Flash in stages. Mozilla is backing off its support for Adobe’s Flash technology in its Firefox browser, the latest slash in Flash’s death by a thousand cuts.
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