Adobe has rushed to counter growing calls to "kill" its commonly used Flash Player, releasing fixes for a duo of bugs that led Mozilla to block it from running on Firefox. Mozilla began automatically ...

Adobe just pulled a major about-face. After axing the NPAPI Flash plugin used by Firefox and other browsers on Linux in 2012, Adobe has decided to begin updating it again and to keep it updated after ...

Lance Whitney is a freelance technology writer and trainer and a former IT professional. He's written for Time, CNET, PCMag, and several other publications. He's the author of two tech books--one on ...

The fallout of the Hacking Team leak is hitting Adobe hard. The leak revealed two unpatched vulnerabilities in the company’s ubiquitous (and ubiquitously disliked) Flash Player. Because it took Adobe ...

Mozilla will stop supporting most browser plugins in Firefox by the end of 2016 . But for Linux users, that won’t make a major difference for one of the biggest ...

The days of a Flash-flooded Internet are seemingly (finally) coming to a close, as Mozilla said in a blog posted on Wednesday that starting in August, Firefox will automatically block certain ...

Adobe Systems Inc.’sADBE-0.30%decrease; red down pointing triangle Flash technology is on its way out of the Firefox internet browser. In August, Mozilla Corp., maker of the browser, will begin ...

It’s been a rough week for the fate of Adobe’s Flash Player plugin. Yesterday we told you about Facebook’s security chief pushing Steve Jobs’ anti-Flash message and calling on Adobe to announce an end ...

Adobe wants to save Firefox users from falling victim to Flash-based security flaws. Working with Mozilla, Adobe has created a beta version of Flash with a new sandbox technology designed to limit the ...

There's some drama going down in the Flash camp. Yesterday, because of two unpatched Hacking Team zero-day vulnerabilities, Mozilla blacklisted Adobe Flash Player 18.0.0.203, meaning Flash was ...

Neither Adobe nor Mozilla has been able to find a solution to the crash issues some Windows users are reporting with Flash Player 11.3, though the two companies have offered a list of workarounds.

In December 2011 Accuvant Labs published a browser comparison suggesting that Google Chrome is more secure than Mozilla Firefox, and that one of the main reasons for this is superior sandboxing in ...