Adobe Flash is notoriously both resource intensive and ubiquitous on the web, which hasn’t helped the open web survive in the consumer shift to mobile devices that have smaller screens and processors.

Adobe stepped forward yesterday to acknowledge that it’s the first major third-party vendor to have used Microsoft’s flawed development code in its products. According to multiple security advisories ...

CTO Kevin Lynch leaving Adobe for Apple is just the latest example of how these companies remained tightly linked despite all their disagreements. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 ...

Adobe has released Flash Player 10.1 for Windows, Mac, and Linux. The company has been pushing out release candidates for the last few months, but now the Flash plugin is officially ready for prime ...

If you’ve ever been frustrated by visiting a website on your smartphone or tablet and finding it won’t work because it uses Flash, you’ll welcome the latest Google initiative: it is now flagging Flash ...

Over the years, Adobe has become more Linux friendly. First, Adobe released an excellent version of its Flash Player for Linux, and, more recently, the company launched a version of AIR (Adobe ...

A Flash Player emulator called 'Ruffle' allows you to play your archived Flash games without fear of being attacked as you browse the web. After 25 years of helping shape the Internet with interactive ...

Flash Player will reach its end of life (EOL) on January 1, 2021, after always being a security risk to those who have used it over the years. The demise of Adobe's multimedia software platform was ...

Adobe Flash was one of the game-changing technology that was rolled out decades ago. It was so popular that Internet veterans would remember downloading it from time to time, especially that many ...

Flash, it's been a good run. We've had a lot of fun together, but it's time to get some distance... permanently. That doesn't erase my fond memories of playing together back in the day, but we both ...

Since Adobe itself has discontinued this product, there are no official fixes to the issue. However, there are some solutions you can implement to unblock Flash Player on Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Opera, ...

In May, Google circulated a draft proposal to effectively kill Adobe Flash by blocking the plugin and prioritizing HTML5 by the end of the year. The company is going ahead with that plan to ...