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PoseMotion
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November 21, 2024
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Flash Player

  • November 21, 2024
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This doesn't make sense. Why did Flash Player get the boot when web browsers now have more extensions than ever? Even a Flash emulator "Ruffle" can be used by Firefox and so forth but not the original Flash player? HTML5 sucks! Multiple files of third party scripts but we can not have the simple and small SWF file that we loved? It just doesn't make sense to me at all. Flash was so much fun.

 

BRING BACK FLASH PLAYER! PLEASE!

Correct answer kglad

apple killed it.

4 replies

Participant
November 27, 2024

I hope Adobe sees this message, but we need Flash Player back. I has caused many crashes and stopped availabilities for many things. I heard that Adobe shut down because of hackers. Just use cloudflare.com and please bring back flash.

kglad
Community Expert
Community Expert
November 27, 2024

they're not looking here.

Participant
November 27, 2024

I agree, Adobe, BRING BACK FLASH!!!

Joseph Labrecque
Community Expert
Community Expert
November 25, 2024

At the time of "Thoughts..." a number of Community Experts and others wrote some really good counter-arguments to the letter. Additionally, there was a lot of conversations internally around these issues in response to the letter and its fallout. Many of the public arguments that were published in this era are no longer extant, sadly. Eventually, everything regarding the platform was killed off and buried... it is not coming back in 2024... 

PoseMotion
Participating Frequently
November 25, 2024

Well, thankfully there is Ruffle and you can always link to it if a user doesn't have it installed just like the normal Flash player.

kglad
Community Expert
kgladCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
Community Expert
November 21, 2024

apple killed it.

PoseMotion
Participating Frequently
November 21, 2024

Steve Jobs sure did. He didn't want competition with iOS apps at the time, so he complained. Why anyone listened to him is beyond me.

kglad
Community Expert
Community Expert
November 21, 2024

there were security issues, so apple blocked flash and it all went downhill from there.