Jobs wrote off Flash in 2010 as successful Adobe software but one that was a 'closed' product 'created during the PC era – for PCs and mice' and not suitable for the then-brand-new iPad, nor any of its prior iPhones. Both are a reminder of the influence Apple co-founder Steve Jobs has had and continues to exert on software and hardware nine years after his death. Just as Firefox support comes to the M1 – the first series of Apple silicon SoCs – Firefox 84 becomes the last version of the browser to support Adobe Flash. Users with new M1 Macs need to fully exit and restart Firefox after upgrading to Firefox 84 to run the browser on the new architecture.
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