Anyone using Mozilla Firefox was out of luck on Monday since the browser temporarily disabled the Adobe Flash player due to security vulnerabilities.
The Next Web reported the change was announced on March Schmidt’s Twitter account.
He is the head of support for Firefox and he said in his post, “BIG NEWS!! All versions of Flash are blocked by default in Firefox as of now.”
The Adobe Flash Player plugin has been ravished with security issues after hackers were able to leak internal documents and product source code that produced the vulnerabilities within the plugin. They were able to obtain the information by hacking into an Italian security company known as the Hacking Team.
Adobe took the steps to fix the issue this last week. However, many are calling for Flash to come to an end, including the chief security officer for Facebook, Alex Stamos. He posted on his Twitter, “It is time for Adobe to announce the end-of-life date for Flash and to ask the browsers to set killbits on the same day.”
Schmidt later clarified that Flash would be blocked just until Adobe created a fix in order to get rid of the vulnerabilities that were present. He also said browser users can enable Flash from their browser settings.
The Daily Mail reported that Google Chrome also pulled support for the plugin. This writer found that out the hard way.