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Nov 21, 2024 9:24 PM UTC
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Flash Player

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!

    kglad
    kgladCorrect answer
    Community Expert
    Nov 21, 2024 9:53 PM UTC

    apple killed it.

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    LLWHOPPERWHOPPER
    Participant
    Nov 27, 2024 2:19 PM UTC

    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.

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    kglad
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    kgladCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    Nov 27, 2024 2:30 PM UTC

    they're not looking here.

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      LLWHOPPERWHOPPER
      Participant
      Nov 27, 2024 2:01 PM UTC

      I agree, Adobe, BRING BACK FLASH!!!

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        Joseph Labrecque
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        Joseph LabrecqueCommunity Expert
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        Nov 25, 2024 6:15 AM UTC

        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... 

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          PoseMotion
          PoseMotionAuthor
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          Nov 25, 2024 1:32 PM UTC

          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.

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          kglad
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          kgladCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
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          Nov 21, 2024 9:53 PM UTC

          apple killed it.

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            PoseMotion
            PoseMotionAuthor
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            Nov 21, 2024 9:59 PM UTC

            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.

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            kglad
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            kgladCommunity Expert
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            Nov 21, 2024 10:04 PM UTC

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

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