Flash Player is taking its final steps to its overdue retirement, after Adobe issued its last ever update for the media plugin
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Firefox Plug-In To Halt Facebook Data Scraping
Mozilla aims to halt Facebook's collection of data via its network of trackers across the web
Mozilla Firefox will Block Flash Content To Save Battery And Boost Security
Curtains for Flash? Next month Firefox will block certain Flash content deemed “not essential to the user experience”
Fake Social Button Plug-in Redirects To Exploit Kit, Warns Malwarebytes
Notorious Angler exploit kit is hiding as social buttons on hacked WordPress websites, says Malwarebytes
Has Adobe Finally Admitted The Death Of Flash?
Steve Jobs hated it, and now its parent company encourages migration to modern alternative HTML5
Firefox To Finally Ditch Ancient NPAPI Plug-ins – Except Flash
Remember Netscape? Mozilla says NPAPI web plug-ins are to be removed from the Firefox browser
Windows 10 Shoehorned Into Quanta Compute Plug
Plug-and-play just got easy with Quanta's Compute Plug, which slots into power socket and runs Windows 10
Microsoft Breaks Ranks As Flash Returns To IE10
Microsoft has broken rank with Apple after easing its HTML5-only stance for Internet Explorer 10
Firefox, Chrome Browsers Demo WebRTC Comms
Users of the Firefox and Chrome browsers can now video chat without the need for pesky plug-ins
Firefox Blocking Java And Silverlight ‘For Better Security’
Mozilla looks to prevent attacks exploiting flaws in plug-ins
Plug Pulled On Open Source ‘Moonlight` Project
The Moonlight project - the open source clone of Microsoft Silverlight - has been officially abandoned
Adobe Offers Flash Sandbox Protection For Firefox
Adobe has released a beta Firefox plugin of Flash Player to protect users from malicious Flash code
Dell PowerEdge Servers Gain VMware Manager Plug-In
Dell’s latest plug-in lets IT admins manage PowerEdge servers directly with VMware’s vCenter console
Microsoft Brings HTML5 Video Plug-in To Firefox
Firefox users who use Windows can now enjoy HTML5 video in their browser, thanks to Microsoft
Visual Studio 2010 Plugs Into Rackspace Cloud
Rackspace has released a plug-in to allow Visual Studio 2010 .NET developers to deploy applications directly into its cloud infrastructure
Google Follows Firefox With Chrome Plug-in Protection
Google has followed in Mozilla's footsteps with plans to block out-of-date plug-ins from running in its Chrome browser
Mozilla Adds Firefox Crash Protection
Mozilla has issued a security update that among other things, aims to keep crashes caused by third-party plug-ins from disrupting the user's browsing experience