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RIP old-school Internet: Chrome 88 lays Flash and FTP to rest – ARNnet
In addition to some new features, Chrome 88 ends support for Adobe Flash, the File Transfer Protocol, and Apple’s OS X Yosemite.
Google started rolling out Chrome 88 this week, and while browser releases usually herald whats new, the most noteworthy change in this update is whats not included. Chrome 88 lays Adobe Flash and the FTP protocol to rest. RIP circa-2000 Internet.
Neither comes as a surprise, though its poetic that theyre being buried together. Adobe halted Flash Player downloads at the end of 2020, making good on a promise made years before, and began blocking Flash content altogether a couple weeks later. Removing…
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