The next major Firefox ESR release is Firefox 91.0 ESR it is scheduled for a July 2021 release. It is planned that the ESR release will continue to support Adobe Flash until July 2021 when the next version of ESR is released.Â Adobe did reveal in the Flash Player End of Life FAQ that Flash content won't run anymore using Adobe Flash Player after the EOL date. I think the key issue here is that Adobe is dropping support for Flash. As many of the readers of this blog probably know, there was a time when Flash was the #1 vector for malware to people’s home computers and laptops. #Firefox download plugins update#Īdobe used to have to update their stuff constantly to try to plug holes. So, even though with many websites switching to HTML5 or at least being “HTML first” and dropping down to Flash only when HTML5 is not available, people are not spending as much time and effort creating exploits, running Flash if there are no security patches whatsoever would be a huge risk.

Running anything that interacts with a bunch of websites and doesn’t get security updates is a huge risk. To the extent that there are still Flash based sites out there, if anyone is “at home” maintaining those sites, they will have to switch to HTML5.

Unfortunately, some utterly unmaintained sites will continue on as Flash-only, but when it turns out no one is viewing them because no mainstream browsers support Flash, that will probably eventually trigger someone to take a look at them and upgrade them to modern standards or retire the sites. Someone is paying to renew those domain registrations somewhere (and probably to host them as well, or using their own servers to do so). If people really feel they need to interact with Flash sites, they might try a virtual machine running Ubuntu (I mention Ubuntu because it- like most Linux distros- doesn’t cost any money, so it is relatively to set up a virtual machine for it within Windows or something without being out money if you decide you don’t like it.) or something with an old browser, and at least that would be relatively sandboxed from their main OS. They also may want to consider if there is someway they can archive the old Flash games or whatever that they play locally on their harddrives, and back them up, because they would I would assume with almost no traffic after all the browsers switch away from Flash for good, eventually disappear from the Internet (Though or the Wayback Machine might preserve playable archived copies). One always hates to see stuff disappear that is part of Internet history, but I don’t really see how to go about systematically keeping this stuff around in it’s current form.

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