
Select Language To Read in Urdu, Hindi, Marathi or Arabic. With Windows 10 currently running on 1.3 billion devices, after the July 2021 updates, a massive number of devices will be clean from Adobe Flash Player.įor all the latest News, Opinions and Views, download App.

Now the company is removing the Flash Player that comes bundled with Windows, the report said.Ī support page for the update notes that it will not remove a version of Adobe Flash Player manually installed from another source. Microsoft has already been removing Flash support from its Microsoft Edge browser with an update that many people will have received and installed automatically. Also Read | Adobe bids goodbye to Flash Player The update that removes Adobe Flash will also be available for older operating systems like Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012 and Windows Embedded 8 Standard. Updating to Windows 10 version 21H1, expected to start rolling out this month, will also remove the software, The Verge reported. The Windows 10 "Update for Removal of Adobe Flash Player," which permanently removes Flash as a component of the operating system, will become mandatory starting in July. Chromium-based browsers will also drop Flash support starting with Chromium version 88 which is coming on January 2021.San Francisco: Microsoft will start fully removing Adobe Flash from Windows 10 in July. Starting in version 84, Mozilla will remove all NPAPI code from the browser which is required to run Flash. If Microsoft didn't change its plan regarding the Flash removal, it will be discontinued in the Edge Beta on December 7th, 2020, and in the Stable version on January 21st, 2021.Īdobe will stop distributing and updating Flash Player after December 31, 2020.Īdobe Flash is now the only NPAPI plugin that Firefox supports. The idea behind this update is to allow Administrators to ensure that the system can work properly without the Adobe Flash component. It is not available via the built-in Windows Update service in Windows, so causal users can't accidentally install it. The update is only available in the Windows Update catalog, i.e.

It is titled as Update for Removal of Adobe Flash Player for Windows, and is also available for Windows Server editions.Īfter performing the update, the Flash Player can no longer be installed. As Microsoft describes it, it would then only work with a system restore point or a backup created. The patch can be downloaded from the Windows Update catalog. KB4577586 allows you in advance to see right now what will happen. By that time it will be discontinued in the majority of web browsers. Microsoft is testing the removal of Adobe Flash, that is scheduled for December 2020. RЕCOMMENDED: Click here to fix Windоws issues and optimize system performance
