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Two things will keep this going: First, Firefox is open source and thus if it's possible to code for Flash and include it, somebody will do so as long as there is a demand. Because Firefox is non-profit and more responsive to their customers.
Point 2: As Microsoft has moved through each of it's iterations of Windows, DOS 5.0 (yep, inside of DOS 5.0 was Windows 1 thought they didn't call it that), to Windows 3.0 (Win286 was the first formal introduction of Windows and didn't do well), Win95, 98, ME, XP, Vista, Win 7, 8, 8.1 and 10 the one browser that you could get to run previously supported applications was Firefox (starting with Windows 3.1 of course). Flash won the plugin or extension war because not because it was better than it's competitors but because it was cheaper to use and good enough to do it for more customers. It's the customers who drive which technology wins and how fast, and for how long. But, in every case it wasn't the superior or newest technology that made them switch, it was the market forces of, in some cases, millions of users, demanding the thing be compatible with old standards. IBM failed with OS/2, PS2, and a host of other things when they didn't adjust. Apple itself almost went out of business in the PC world when they insisted on hanging on to their proprietary Motorola based systems when Intel became dominant. Novell lost market dominance over Windows Server because the too failed to keep up with the changing needs of the customers which wanted an open platform rather than a closed one. Their slowness lost them that market dominance. When everything went from DOS to Windows 3.0/3.1 WordPerfect, for instance didn't make the switch for almost 5 years, and they were market dominant at the time. Smaller companies and vertical market applications are much slower as the profit margins and development costs are not absorbed by as large a distribution.
FIREFOX FLASH PLUGIN CRASH 2017 SOFTWARE
Most large software companies have ported or are porting their application(s) to HTML5 as we speak. Point 1: You are right that the browsers and everybody else has been aware of the change for at least 3 years. Nothing is lost by waiting until that moment and in the meantime HTML5 gets a chance to fix it's slowness. Firefox is open source.ģ) MS/Adobe and all the others will try to scare people into changing because that's how they make their money.Ĥ) You can always change when forced to do so. 1) Too many customers will continue to need Flash for their software and the history of the industry shows they will continue to have the support of Flash for a lot longer than MS and Adobe would like.Ģ) Open Source software is much more flexible in supporting older standards.