Safari and Firefox have both abandoned Flash, leaving Chrome with you

Adobe must have had a very unhappy couple of days. First, Facebook's top security officer Alex Stamos publicly said on Twitter: Adobe, you really should put an end to Flash, as hackers have stolen up to 400 GB of cache files through Flash. Then the head of Firefox also said that all versions of Flash will be disabled by default in the Firefox browser.

After these news came out, users and media on Twitter basically applauded. For example, Engadget said that Flash was bombarded and boycotted by Facebook and Mozilla, while Twitter user @zaid said: If you are an ad displayer who cares about your users, then you should stop accepting Flash ads immediately.

Firefox is not the only one to make such a move. In April this year, when Apple discovered the security issues with Flash, it disabled all old versions of Flash plug-ins when updating the web plug-in shielding system of OS X. In 2014, Apple also made a similar move. Since Adobe did not release any updates at that time, Flash was directly blocked by Apple.

While Firefox and Safari are using similar methods to boycott Flash, Chrome is tightly tied to Flash. According to Google, Flash is directly integrated into Chrome and is turned on by default.

Now that Safari and Firefox have both ditched Flash, Chrome is the only one left.

In the Internet world, no other application seems to be as often the target of public criticism as Flash. When Jobs publicly criticized Flash in 2010, Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen responded to Apple's criticism and talked about his belief that multi-platform applications would be popular with consumers. Now, Adobe is basically giving up. After all, the reality is that all versions of Flash have security vulnerabilities, and they can't immediately provide a viable solution.

Of course, although Firefox and Apple have banned Flash before, users actually enabled it manually, and after Adobe updated the secure version, these companies will basically change the previous ban rules. However, even so, for Flash, which is both unsafe and power-consuming, everyone should stay away from it as far as possible.