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Firefox 69 will deactivate all Flash content by default

Mozilla has confirmed that the contents shown on the Flash pages will be blocked starting from the release of Firefox 69. The definitive abandonment of the Flash technology is expected by the end of 2020, in line with Adobe's programming.

With the release of Firefox 69 (currently the latest "stable" version is 64) Mozilla will completely disable the support of Adobe Flash technology and content.

The foundation had already confirmed its intention to finally get rid of Flash in 2020: the development of HTML5, WebAssembly and WebGL applications allows today not only to substitute the Adobe technology but to realize complex applications. 

To give developers time to prepare for time, Mozilla had published the roadmap for the abandonment of NPAPI plugins, primarily Flash.

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The old NPAPI plugins are in fact considered potentially risky from the point of view of security because they are loaded and executed in the context of the user account and are in no way protected (for example through use in sandbox ) by the browser. 
For this same reason, Google removed support for the NPAPI plugin in Chrome as early as 2013.

Also in the course of 2020, Adobe itself will definitively abandon Flash: the release of security updates will be interrupted at the end of that year.
To deactivate the Flash content already from today and not even receive the request to upload it, if any, in Firefox just access the main menu, choose the item Add-ons , click on Plugin and then on Never activate.

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