2015 was the year that Adobe's Flash finally began to die
by Samuel Gibbs from Technology | The Guardian on (#Z1P1)
The deathknell tolls for Flash as Google, Firefox, Amazon and other technology companies block it, while Adobe dumps the name from its own products
Deaths are rarely to be celebrated, but there is one passing that certainly won't be widely mourned: that of Adobe's Flash.
2015 was the year the bug ridden security flaw finally went into terminal decline. Once the darling of the new interactive web (we're talking in the late 1990s), enabling video, web apps and fancy ads, Flash has become bloated and dangerous, loved only by hackers on the open web.
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