The San Jose, California-headquartered company also started encouraging developers to migrate their existing Flash content to new standards.Īs a result of the end of its life, Flash Player won't receive any new software versions or even security updates. It came as a collaborative decision in partnership with Apple, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and Mozilla. However, over time, Flash Player started facing criticism for security issues and performance constraints.īack in July 2017, Adobe first announced the retirement of Flash Player.
It was embraced by a large number of Web developers around the world to bring rich experiences to browsers. While it might not be that known among the Gen-Z audience due to the arrival of newer technologies, the Flash Player plug-in was a must-have among PC users until the late 1990s and early 2000s.
Adobe Flash Player, the software that once gained massive popularity for bringing interactive content to the Web world and took animations to new levels, has finally reached the end of its life.
