Microsoft has announced to end support for Adobe Flash Player on Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer 11 at the end of the year.
Apple and Mozilla have also stopped supporting Flash, and Microsoft is scheduled to end support later this month, reports ZDNet.Īccording to web technology survey site W3Techs, only 2.2 per cent of today’s websites use Flash code, a number that has plummeted from a 28.5 per cent figure recorded at the start of 2011.įirst announced in July 2017, Adobe had said to stop updating and distributing Flash Player after Decemdue to the diminished usage of the technology and the availability of better, more secure options such as HTML5, WebGL and WebAssembly.