OREANDA-NEWS. June 16, 2016. Apple's Safari 10 browser, which will ship with MacOS Sierra later this year, will deactivate Flash by default. Instead it will favor the newer HTML5 technology that has been gaining traction on websites for delivering interactive content.

If you encounter a site that can use either Flash or HTML5, the browser will choose the latter, Apple software engineer Ricky Mondello said in a blog post published Tuesday.

If the page is limited to using Flash, Safari will ask if you'd like to enable Adobe's plug-in. You can opt to do so, either just that once (the default) or anytime that website is visited.

For years, Flash has been nearly inescapable on the internet, an essential tool for running games, powering graphics and streaming media inside web browsers. For almost as long, it's been heavily criticized for its many security vulnerabilities and the toll it takes on phone batteries.