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February 17, 2020
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Adobe Flash availability after 2020?

  • February 17, 2020
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It's been known Adobe terminates flash support by end of 2020, however companies are interested what happens after 2020 - is it possible still to run Flash in major browsers, just without support?  Asking to have plan B if companies won't finish migration by end of 2020, and what are possible workarounds?

Microsoft support told that it depends on Adobe, if they keep flash still available.

 

thanks!

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Correct answer jeromiec83223024

Our support partner Harman can work with you on possible options: 

https://services.harman.com/partners/adobe

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Participating Frequently
February 12, 2021

Actually, our 'chinese friends' has hacked flash version with all these dumb 'kill switches' removed. I am sure, that same can be found on Russian or Ukanian sites (never checked but let me see).

- Ruffle - Flash replacement, open source.
https://rbkgames.com/publications/articles/kak-zapuskat-flesh-igry-v-2021-godu-8-variantov-dlya-windows-macos-i-android/ - 8 methods to run FLASH (including version without kill switch). Sorry, in Russian. I will ask our Chinese engineers to search in Chinese, and I am 100% sure they will find flash without kill switch too.


What Adobe did is dumb and very bad. As many people NEED FLASH for many different reasons. So instead of providing safe and verified version (free of backdoors etc) they push people to download untested and possible infected versions. Congratulation, Adobe, for opening huge Pandora Box.

De facto Adobe killed Flash for english speaking people ONLY. Any Russian speaking or Chinese speaking will work around it in 10 minutes even without using whitelist. 

(We use whitelist, but I downloaded pre-kill-switch version too. Just in case!)

 

Participant
February 24, 2021
Спасибо мои друзья! ВИдимо у меня не получится воспользоваться Ruffle,
потому. что программа Sothink SWF Easy подгружает флеш плеер из IE (
интернет эксплорера). Остается одно, искать, как флеш в нем
разблокировать. Я в игрушки не играю, не тот возраст, но привык работать
в этой программе и менять ничего не хочу. Аддоб поступил нехорошо, тысячи
людей используют ПО , в которых просмотр графических изображений
работает во встроенном в программу плеере на флеш. Еще раз спасибо!!!!
Если будут какие новости, буду рад!
Alex.
Participant
February 11, 2021

And what about someone who bought software that uses the plugin, such as products https://www.sothink.com/ Now they are useless! And who will compensate them for the damage? Moreover, the manufacturer also suffers losses, advises switching to an outdated operating system. In the chat, this issue was not resolved, I was sent to this forum. And here, too, I did not find the answer!
I quote:
"Important note: Since January 12, 2021, Adobe has blocked the launch of Flash content in Flash Player, so the Flash element cannot play normally in Sothink Flash products, such as the Decompiler. The solution is to use an old Windows system like win7; or use win 10, which doesn't install the latest patch."

Checked it doesn't work.

Participating Frequently
January 13, 2021

Tested today
- you need FireFOX ESR

- You must be sure that you have Adobe Flash plugin installed (to keep installer, you must have full installer not one which downlod files)
- You need to edit white list in mmc.cfg file. mmc.cfg examples are wrong, no * is allowed (at least it did not work in our case)
More information is here - https://community.adobe.com/t5/flash-player/how-to-use-mms-cfg-file-after-dec-2020/m-p/11748432?page=1#M210726

Participant
January 12, 2021

How am I gonna play games that require Adobe Flash Player now? 

Known Participant
January 12, 2021
Oh! I can answer that question! You have to go buy the HTML5 version from
Steam, separately, and play that. (IF the developer bothers gong through
the conversion headaches.)
December 30, 2020

I have been fiddling with Flash for a while now and still can't keep it running past the kill date. What I've done:

* Taken ownership of the entire Flash folder

* Used MauricioB82B's edit for mms.cfg

* completely disabled Adobe updates via Services, Task Manager, and Registry

*disabled FlashPlayerUpdateService.exe

 

Unfortunately, an update DID slip by before I was able to do all of this, leaving me with v.32_0_0_453. I have an old Windows backup on another hard drive with v.32_0_0_363 still on it from when it was my main HD earlier this year.

 

What edits (if any) can I make to mms.cfg to make v.32_0_0_453 work, or is there any way to effectively replace it with the files from v.32_0_0_363? Adobe's already killed their archives, so I have no way to obtain any other versions than the two I have, unless someone else managed to back up the archives before they were removed.

 

I only really need Adobe Flash to keep working until Ruffle can catch up and they release the desktop version. Thus far, the available plugin is still too primitive to work on AVM2 and only partial support of AVM1. I highly doubt they'll get much further before D-Day, and I'm completely lost on how to use SuperNova (or even if it works at all).

December 12, 2020

I expect when websites, browsers and games fail to work after December 31st, people will panic all over. People will get upset and mad, and frantically race all over the internet to find a way to get stuff working again.  

 

Never Fear!  Adobe is here!  They will ride in on their white horse offering a fix, for x amount of $$. 

December 17, 2020

Are you talking about the harman solution?

Participant
November 26, 2020

Will Opera support flash after December?

_maria_
Community Manager
Community Manager
November 30, 2020

Opera is based on Chromium, as such, it's expected to stop supporting Flash Player as well.


 https://www.chromium.org/flash-roadmap

November 30, 2020

Will you still be able to use older non-time bombed versions after 2020?

Participating Frequently
November 19, 2020

Two points.

1) The Harman option is going to be prohibitively expense for many organization!  I wonder it Adobe has a stake in them or otherwise receives "kickbacks" from Harman!

2) Users everywhere should boycott Adobe and stop using their products!  Did they give 3 years notice? Well yes they did.  Did anyone know there was going to be a worldwide pandemic that require IT resources to be focuse elsewhere?  No one knew!  But does Adobe care?  Clearly the answer is NO. They could delay the EOL of Flash in deference to the COVID-19 pandemic and the associated ramifications, but they chose not to.  SHAME ON ADOBE.  SHAME!

Participating Frequently
November 20, 2020
What is interesting - I installed CentOS7, FireFox esr, and flash player -
and this combination works pretty well, do not have any kill switches
(tested) and esr itself (Linux version) is not affected by dumb 'removals'
proposed by FF.

But we tested Windows FF esr + flash as well, with adobe config file - this
combination works (tested on 2021 dates) but we must disable FF updates (by
network policy) as we can not risk having it suddenly broken (we have too
many very important intranet services on it). of course, we found and saved
full adobe installer, to prevent adobe from bloking downloads

PS. As usual, killing flash causes a huge security hole in enterprises
which must disable automatic updates to keep service running. I saw it too
many times (java is a good example - we keep old windows2000 and up to run
java to support old hardware, yes we do it in sandboxes and in safe places
but anyway, I prefer to have a way to manage it from current systems). Ok,
one more sandbox to freeze FF and ADOBE, not a big deal in today-s virtual
world.
Legend
November 20, 2020

But what will you do once your Flash Player distribution license runs out? I doubt they will be renewed after EOL, so all corporate rights to install will lapse.

Participating Frequently
October 29, 2020

Your partner Harman is charging an exhorbitant amount for their solutions.  Small companies with a short term need could never justify the costs.

October 1, 2020

Are you sure there is actually a way to use flash after 2020? I do not believe that this is actually true.