Adobe Flash literally has its days numbered. This plugin has been a necessary evil for many years. Thanks to him, web pages could have multimedia and interactive content before this was supported by the web standards themselves. However, with HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript, Flash has become not only obsolete, but also heavy, slow and dangerous. The use of Flash is less and less, but it is still part of Windows and the main browsers. Although its elimination has already begun.
Adobe itself intends to kill Flash in December this year. From then on, this plugin will go down in history, it will stop updating and, if possible, it will become even more dangerous for users. Surely there are hackers who already have vulnerabilities that, in two months, will be left uncorrected in the plugin.
Although we can remove Flash from Windows by hand, Microsoft, and the developers of the major web browsers are already working on this disappearance. And the first changes can be seen both in Edge and in Windows 10 itself.
Flash disappears from Windows 10 Control Panel
One of the points where Flash appears in Windows 10 is within the Control Panel. Of course, when this plugin disappears completely in Windows, it will also disappear from here so as not to leave a trace on the system. What’s more, Microsoft has long planned to remove Flash with Windows 10 update 21H1 .
However, users who do not want to wait until spring next year will be able to remove everything Flash-related from their computer before anyone else thanks to one of the new optional updates that Microsoft has just released. This optional update brings with it a host of changes and fixes, but one of the undocumented changes is the removal of the entries related to this component.
Although at the moment it is only available to Insider users (it will not take long to reach all of them), after installing it we will see how Flash disappears completely from our PC. But this is not the only step towards removing the component.
Edge 88 will be the one who ends up with this plugin on the web
Edge, Microsoft’s new web browser, also has its own plugin to allow users to visit websites with this content. Although it is true that the plugin is very limited and restricted (it must be activated manually, on each website, and is never activated by default), this add-on is still present both in Edge and in other browsers, such as Firefox and Chrome, among others.
While the stable version, Beta and Dev of Edge have continued to update the plugin, the Canary version, the most unstable, has already stopped doing so. And this can only mean one thing: that Microsoft Edge 88 will likely reach users, at last, without the Flash plug- in.
Anyway, we shouldn’t worry about Flash. At the moment, the plugin is supported and is periodically updated to correct vulnerabilities. And when it is going to be abandoned, the browsers will block and remove it, and in Windows we will see an update in Windows Update called ” Update to remove Adobe Flash Player ” whose purpose is more than clear.