{"id":107826,"date":"2020-01-23T02:56:01","date_gmt":"2020-01-23T02:56:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/appleinsider.com\/articles\/20\/01\/22\/adobe-flash-disabled-in-latest-safari-technology-preview"},"modified":"2020-01-23T02:56:01","modified_gmt":"2020-01-23T02:56:01","slug":"adobe-flash-disabled-in-latest-safari-technology-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/01\/23\/adobe-flash-disabled-in-latest-safari-technology-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Adobe Flash disabled in latest Safari Technology Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Mikey Campbell<\/a>
Wednesday, January 22, 2020, 06:56 pm PT (09:56 pm ET)<\/span> <\/p>\n

Presaging what will be the final nail in the coffin for Adobe Flash on Safari, Apple on Wednesday disabled support for the much-maligned multimedia plug-in in the latest version of Safari Technology Preview.
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Apple quietly announced the imminent demise of Flash on Safari<\/a> in a set of release notes accompanying Safari Technology Preview 99<\/a>. Along with a number of enhancements to WebKit code and assets is mention of a single deprecation under “Legacy Plug-Ins,” which simply states, “Removed support for Adobe Flash.” <\/p>\n

CNET<\/em> was first to note the change<\/a> on Wednesday. <\/p>\n

Introduced as a developer-focused experimental browser in 2016<\/a>, Safari Technology Preview provides an early look at upcoming Web technologies that will appear \u2014 or in the case of Flash, won’t appear \u2014 in both iOS<\/a> and macOS<\/a>. The browser is in many ways a standalone beta version of Safari. <\/p>\n

The death of Flash is a long time coming. A once-pervasive standard for distributing rich media over the internet, the asset-hungry, proprietary software is now viewed as out-of-date and unsuitable for a mobile-first world. Late Apple cofounder Steve Jobs said as much some 10 years ago in a widely circulated letter appropriately titled “Thoughts on Flash<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

Following increased competition and pushback from the likes of Apple, Google and other browser makers, Adobe in 2017 said it would pull the plug on Flash<\/a> in 2020. Now, with five words, Apple is signaling that time is nigh for Safari.<\/p>\n

For iOS device users, the end of Flash is a non-issue as the platform never integrated the web standard. Safari on Mac has shipped with Flash disabled since macOS Sierra, leaving users to manually activate the software on a case-by-case basis.<\/p>\n

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