[dba-Tech] Microsoft to change how Windows 10's Edge browser handles Flash content

[John R Bartow]

Extensions is what the upgrade is all about. Flash handling is a side issue.

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Peter Brawley
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Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Microsoft to change how Windows 10's Edge browser
handles Flash content

On 4/8/2016 13:35, John R Bartow wrote:
> Microsoft will give users more control over Flash content in its Edge 
> browser for Windows 10 when it delivers the Anniversary update this
summer.
>
> http://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-to-change-how-windows-10-edge-b
> rowser
> -handles-flash-content/

It's a start.
>
> Not sure how many of you keep up on all the Flash security problems 
> but anything that lets you manage flash is good. Personally, I suggest 
> you get rid of it if you don't need it for business. (Force the sites 
> that use it to abandon it.)

Indeed.

And Edge needs more than a partial Flash fix, it needs to support
extensions.

PB
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