Adobe Flash Player Ending

by **SLGray** October 17th 2020, 9:36 pm

By the end of December 2020, Adiobe Flash Payer will be at its end of life. All downloads for it will be removed from their sites.

When I turned on my computer today, I got a popup message from Adobe to uninstall it. Microsoft states there will be an update to remove it completely during the Fall of 2020.

Most browsers have started or finished the process of moving away from it.

by YoshiGM October 18th 2020, 12:49 am

This will be sad for some game sites that used Flash Player to work.

I also remember when Mozilla Firefox used Flash Player and how many times the plugin failed (this was very annoying)

But it was about time ... Flash Player is old and many browsers no longer use it (they even report it as insecure)
R.IP. Flash Player.

by **skouliki** October 18th 2020, 8:11 am

Microsoft will end support for Adobe Flash Player on 31 December 2020, along with Adobe and their other industry partners.

This means that starting January 2021, customers will no longer receive security updates for support for Adobe Flash Player. Microsoft will also take steps to remove Flash from the Windows operating system

Here's what you can expect for each Microsoft browser:

Flash is currently disabled by default in the new Microsoft Edge.
However, users may re-enable it on a site-by-site basis through December of 2020.

In January 2021, Flash will be fully removed from the new Microsoft Edge.

Flash will  not be disabled by default from the legacy version of Microsoft Edge (built on EdgeHTML) or Internet Explorer 11 prior to its removal in December of 2020.

Microsoft docs

by **SLGray** November 3rd 2020, 7:45 pm

The update to remove it was released on October 27, 2020. You have to go to the MIcrosoft Catalog to get it. In the catalog, it is dated October 26, 2020.

by **brandon_g** January 2nd 2021, 6:45 pm

Well folks Adobe Flash is officially dead, December 31st marked the last day it was supported. RIP Adobe Flash you had a good run, but it is time for better, more secure coding standards. Wink

P.s If anyone still has any remaining Adobe Flash codes on their forum, I would recommend going ahead and removing them, as any day now Adobe will publish an update to permanently remove flash from devices which will render this code useless.

by Mihai January 14th 2021, 8:36 pm

everything is coming to an end ... as happened with Google+, Yahoo Messenger !, or Inbox by Gmail ... I think the next one will be skype, since nobody is using it ... let's be serious, we're not in the past (anymore), we are in the future, the codes change day by day, and the platforms improve day by day ...

by Niko January 14th 2021, 8:38 pm

I agree with you @Mihai about Skype being the next one!
They already dismissed Skype for Business in favor of Microsoft Teams, and probably Skype will be the next one as well Embarassed

by Mihai January 14th 2021, 9:04 pm

Niko wrote:I agree with you @Mihai about Skype being the next one!
They already dismissed Skype for Business in favor of Microsoft Teams, and probably Skype will be the next one as well

skype was very popular in its time, when it had the old interface, it was very successful, and facebook was not very successful at that time (as far as I remember), after that came the discord platform, where it is used by almost half of people

I remember using Skype in the past, and from what I remember, I know there was an announcement somewhere that Skype was supposed to shut down a long time ago, and I think in the future, I think the decision will be one: the final!

Since yahoo was sold to the verzion media, yahoo`s changes was just the logo, the rest of the website is the same... skype will be next, and then yahoo! mail (since nobody is using it anymore)

Adobe Flash Player Ending MKTahvR

by Sonikku1011 January 15th 2021, 2:49 am

Adobe Flash Player may have ended, but many are working on preserving the many flash games that were released throughout the years. I'm happy people are coming together to preserve this part of internet history!

by Chalesboon February 12th 2021, 11:48 am

So which is best Alternative for Adobe Flash Player.

by **SLGray** February 12th 2021, 11:51 am

I am using Firefox. The add-ons are these for video/game playing: OpenH264 Video Codec provided by Cisco Systems, Inc. and Widevine Content Decryption Module provided by Google Inc.. I have had no issues with them.

There are some gaming sites that will not work since they use flash players, but they are working on it.

by **brandon_g** February 13th 2021, 4:29 am

Chalesboon wrote:So which is best Alternative for Adobe Flash Player.

There really is not one.

However, there is a website that is run by some freelance programmers who have preserved and archived many flash games and have made their own self contained version of flash so that the games can be played. You have to download their program (which contains a list of games you can download and play within it) and then you can play any of the available games on their list. You will only be able to play it within their program, their flash environment does not work outside of the program like in a web browser or anything like that.

Unfortunately if there is a game not on the list that is flash there is nothing you can do to play it. If a website or game has not been switched over to newer coding standards like html5, Java, etc. yet then it probably never well.

Link to the program/project in question: http://www.flashgamearchive.com/

by parlapipas26 July 6th 2021, 12:29 am

ευχαριστο πως μπορο ναστιλο μινιμα στον διχισριστι στο greektoons

by **Ape** July 6th 2021, 12:41 am

parlapipas26 wrote:ευχαριστο πως μπορο ναστιλο μινιμα στον διχισριστι στο greektoons

Hello @parlapipas26 This forum is a English support forum please only speak English when making a topic or posting a reply.

Thank you.

by **skouliki** July 6th 2021, 8:22 am

parlapipas26 wrote:ευχαριστο πως μπορο ναστιλο μινιμα στον διχισριστι στο greektoons

hello

this is not the right place to asking something like this
you must contact the admin of that forum

by Guest July 20th 2021, 5:22 am

parlapipas26 wrote:ευχαριστο πως μπορο ναστιλο μινιμα στον διχισριστι στο greektoons

Could you please use english from now on? Thanks!

by **skouliki** July 20th 2021, 8:42 am

GUEST wrote:
parlapipas26 wrote:ευχαριστο πως μπορο ναστιλο μινιμα στον διχισριστι στο greektoons

Could you please use english from now on? Thanks!

Please refrain from moderating members, as this is a staff member's job. Thank you.

Please read our forum rules: ESF General Rules

by Wolf478 July 23rd 2021, 4:51 am

Does anyone know if a deprecated and un-updated version of Internet Explorer would still be able to run a Flash game if the computer is kept offline?

by **SLGray** July 23rd 2021, 5:49 am

Wolf478 wrote:Does anyone know if a deprecated and un-updated version of Internet Explorer would still be able to run a Flash game if the computer is kept offline?

Are you using Windows? If yes, there should have been updates to remove the Flash Player completely. So I really do not think a flash game would work at all.

by Nemesis Prime October 21st 2023, 5:00 pm

brandon_g wrote:
Chalesboon wrote:So which is best Alternative for Adobe Flash Player.

There really is not one.

However, there is a website that is run by some freelance programmers who have preserved and archived many flash games and have made their own self contained version of flash so that the games can be played. You have to download their program (which contains a list of games you can download and play within it) and then you can play any of the available games on their list. You will only be able to play it within their program, their flash environment does not work outside of the program like in a web browser or anything like that.

Unfortunately if there is a game not on the list that is flash there is nothing you can do to play it. If a website or game has not been switched over to newer coding standards like html5, Java, etc. yet then it probably never well.

Link to the program/project in question: http://www.flashgamearchive.com/

Thanks! for this. I gave them a quick scan. Just when I was about to settle for Flash Emulators as my only option. Soooo excited that I may actually get to see some of the old FinalFantasy Flash and Transformers Flash games preserved/restored