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Firefox 85 hammers the final nail into the Adobe Flash coffin Safari, Chrome and Edge have also removed the once-popular tech for pepping up the web with video, animation and games. Listen - 02:09 Mozilla With Mozillas release of Firefox 85 on Tuesday, Adobes once ubiquitous Flash technology is really gone for good. The software had been widely used to expand gaming, video and animation on the web, thou...

In one of the wackiest developments of 2021 so far, the South African Revenue Service has launched its own web browser. Why, you ask? Because it’s the only place where citizens of South Africa can easily access eFiling and submit tax forms after Adobe killed off Flash Player officially in 2020.  The death of Flash was all but a surprise too. Back in 2017, tech firms including Microsoft and Google announced that they would kill off support for the plugin. That’s because newer technologies a...

The South African Revenue Service has published its very own Web browser, with support for Adobe Flash, to allow e-filing taxpapers to continue submitting tax forms electronically. The is meant as a stopgap measure until Sars can move to more modern HTML5 technology in all of its forms. Sars was presented with a problem by Adobe’s decision to kill off its Flash Player software, which was integrated into popular browsers such as Google’s Chrome. The tax authority has since moved some forms t...

Chinese Railway Dispatch System Crashes After Adobe Flash Stops Running A Chinese railway depot recently lost access to its local dispatching system after U.S.-based software company Adobe stopped supporting the Flash Player program. The local railway system was paralyzed as a result. The depot’s IT workers chronicled their attempt to fix the technical issue on Chinese social media, written in a war diary style. The post went viral after tech-savvy netizens noticed that the IT workers solved ...

Adobe Flash is finally gone—and with it, the weird spontaneity of the early 2000s Internet It was past its prime, but Adobe Flash will always be remembered as the progenitor of much weirdness in early online culture December 30, 2020 Do you want a webpage solely composed of an animation of squatting badgers on a continuous loop? Nobody’s stopping you! Image: badgerbadgerbadger.com It’s a deadline that’s been looming for the best part of three years, but ...

Google has released Chrome 88 as the latest stable version of their cross-platform web browser without any support for Adobe Flash Player. Flash reached its official end of life on December 31, when Adobe officially stopped supporting the software. On January 12, Adobe also began blocking content from playing inside Flash. Apple and Mozilla have also stopped supporting Flash, and Microsoft is scheduled to end support later this month, reports ZDNet. According to web technology survey site W3...

In addition to some new features, Chrome 88 ends support for Adobe Flash, the File Transfer Protocol, and Apple's OS X Yosemite.

78 articles Microsoft have released a flash removal update to take Adobe Flash permanently off W10 computers and block its reinstallation. The update is optional but is being widely promoted by some tech websites. Please be aware that if you run this it will stop the older issues in the archive from working, and the only way to restore it would be to roll back the W10 update and reinstall Flash. Its not clear if it would block third party flash players. Obviously its your decision whether you w...

Business Insider SA facebook email Taxpayers are struggling to submit some online forms after SARS was caught unawares by the demise of Adobe Flash Player. Adobe warned three years ago that it is killing Flash Player, and SARS started to migrate some of its forms that work with the software. However, it (wrongly) assumed it still had some time to do the rest. For more articles, go to www.BusinessInsider.co.za. The South African Revenue Service (SARS) has apolog...

Most online forms have now been migrated to newer technology after Adobe stopped support for Flash Player on 31 Dec, says Sars.