#microsoft Edge will block Flash by default soon
December 14, 2016 | Uncategorized
The death of Flash continues to move forward, and now Microsoft is taking its swing at the aging internet standard. The next release of Microsoft Edge will now default to HTML5 content if available, while Flash will be blocked by default. Users will instead be presented an option as to whether or not they’d like the plug-in to load.
In order to make things easier for users, Microsoft will be allowing the most popular sites that use Flash to be excepted from the block automatically, but has not yet commented as to which sites will be included. The company also plans to shrink that list over time, until users have complete control over whether or not to use Flash.
The update is scheduled to roll out to…
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