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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 Mozilla's release of Firefox 85 on Tuesday, Adobe's once ubiquitous Flash technology is really gone for good. The software had been widely used to expand gaming, video and animation on the web, though Adobe stopped supporting it at the end of 2020. Firefox was the last major browser to support F...

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 are ample and serve as far better foundations for new, richer content and applications. Even more, se...

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 to HTML5, but others are still only available in Flash. It’s surprising it has taken Sars so long 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 the glitch by installing an older version of Flash from a pirated operating system. The post has sin...

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 now there’s no avoiding it. As the end of 2020 draws nearer, so too does the end-of-life date for ...