Adobe is finally ending support for its Flash Player, a pioneering technology that once enabled easier creation of online animation. Historian Anastasia Salter helps explain. "Salad Fingers" was one ...

In joint announcements with Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla, Adobe announced today plans to stop supporting the Adobe Flash Media Player in 2020. The company took the decision that all ...

QUESTION: With Flash expiring soon, what should I do to make sure my computer is safe? ANSWER: Adobe’s multimedia platform known as "Flash" was an instrumental tool in the evolution of the Internet ...

David Firth's Salad Fingers was a popular Flash character Adobe Flash Player, the browser plug-in that brought rich animations and interactivity to the early web, has officially reached the end of its ...

Back in the days of dial-up when the world wide web was full of promise, and internet sites were pretty text heavy, Adobe Flash Player burst into life to change how we viewed online content. Rather ...

Come December 31, Adobe will discontinue its support for Flash Player and from January 12 next year it will block all content running in the player. This decision was made because very few websites ...

Bottom line: Adobe will stop supporting Flash Player after December 31, 2020, and will actively start blocking content from running in Flash Player from January 12, 2021. As such, the company ...

is a senior tech and policy editor focused on online platforms and free expression. Adi has covered virtual and augmented reality, the history of computing, and more for The Verge since 2011. Adobe ...

Few technologies have yielded such divisive and widespread passion as Flash. Many gush over its versatility and ease of use as a creative platform or its critical role in the rise of web video. Others ...

Adobe Flash Player, the browser plug-in that brought rich animations and interactivity to the early web, has officially reached the end of its life. Released in 1996, Flash was once one of the most ...