To uninstall Flash on Chrome, simply go to chrome://plugins/ using the address bar, and click Disable under Adobe Flash Player.Largely, the solution has been making the basic infrastructure of the web (like HTML, CSS, and JavaScript) smarter, allowing it to take over the responsibilities of Flash, without introducing the same slowdown and vulnerabilities - and without requiring users to voluntarily download additional software. We're now seeing that change begin to happen. The situation needed to get really bad before change was possible. Since then, its various challengers have had to fight an uphill battle. Unless a plugin is bundled with most browsers, there's no way for it to get over the hump to ubiquity.įlash was the first plugin to simultaneously do many media-related tasks competently - as a result, it was able to rise to ubiquity early on. The whole point of the browser is its convenience: the ability to things without needing to install stuff. If you want to create a browser game or play a video, asking users to install a plugin leaves you dead in the water. This grim situation persisted for longer than it should have, because standards have a kind of inertia. He hasn't changed a bit, but at some point he stopped being fun to hang out with.
F lash is a little like that friend of yours from highschool who still lives with his parents and thinks 'pull my finger' is funny. So what changed?Īs it turns out, the answer is "nothing" - and that's the problem. Now, it looks like it may be headed to the chopping block. Flash From the Pastįlash used to a be a universal standard on the web. The new exploit has already been included into an automated hacking toolkit, which is used to place malware on user computers. The new exploit was discovered by security researcher Kafeine, writing for hacker blog "Malware don't need coffee." This is yet another reminder of just how much of a security nightmare Flash really is. Unfortunately, it's recently become clear that the added security precautions were broken less a month after they originally premiered.
In the aftermath of the block, Flash made an effort to beef up its security in an effort to justify its existence. Shortly thereafter, Facebook's chief of security publicly called for Adobe to announce a kill-date for Flash, and Google Chrome began blocking auto-playing Flash ads by default.
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