Adobe Flash, once the de-facto standard for media playback on the web, has lost favor in the industry due to increasing concerns over security and performance. At the ...

Shumway, Mozilla’s technology experiment to build an efficient, web-native renderer for Flash files, has now landed in the latest Firefox Nightly builds. The idea behind this project – which is still ...

Twitch is about to get a whole lot friendlier to the anti-Adobe Flash crowd. The game streaming site is starting to release its HTML5-based video player for the web in small increments. First up are ...

Amazon is becoming the latest company to start moving beyond Adobe Flash and Microsoft Silverlight to adopt native HTML5 web video. The company said today that it has begun to roll out a new HTML5 web ...

Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. In what may be the final nail in the coffin for Flash, Facebook has now abandoned the technology in ...

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Adobe has also faced numerous security problems with Flash. Most recently, the company acknowledged a critical vulnerability in the Flash player that could allow an attacker to take over users' ...

YouTube made waves Wednesday evening when it announced a Flash-less HTML5 video player. And now, mere months after rolling out a mobile-friendly site for iPhone and ...

HTML5 now the "best solution" for browser content across mobile platforms, Adobe admits... Adobe is ending development of its Flash Player on mobile devices to focus on HTML5 - a year and a half after ...

Google has announced that hacker-favorite Adobe Flash Player will no longer, as of Q4, be the default in Chrome. Instead, Chrome will default to HTML5. As zero days in Adobe Flash Player continue to ...

We've come a long, long way from the time when Google was praising Adobe Flash as if it were a cornerstone of the internet. The internet firm has quietly proposed an "HTML5 by Default" initiative for ...

Ding dong, Flash is dead. Well, not quite — Adobe’s announcement that it will now “encourage content creators to build with new Web standards” such as HTML5 is a direct blow against Flash, but Flash ...