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Paul Darky
Inspiring
December 8, 2019
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Could Adobe let Flash Player on browsers die with some dignity?

  • December 8, 2019
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The last update for the link https://helpx.adobe.com/es/flash-player/kb/enabling-flash-player-safari.html was on November 2017. It is useless now.

 

The last update for the link https://helpx.adobe.com/es/flash-player/kb/enabling-flash-player-firefox.html was on March 2017. It is useless now.

 

This is on an iMac. I don´t know about Windows.

 

It was announced some years ago that Flash Player would not be supported by browsers on 2020.

 

It seems that Adobe stopped supporting Flash Player since 2017.

 

We are on 2019 and there is no way to activate Flash Player on Firefox or Safari using Adobe´s "help".

 

After being an Adobe´s custommer for more than fifteen years I would like to be able to show some respect to the users of my websites. But that would require some respect from Adobe to it´s users.

 

What a shame.

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    _maria_
    Community Manager
    _maria_Community Manager
    Community Manager
    December 16, 2019

    I've reviewed the Enable Flash in Safari tech note, and the instructions for Safari 11 and newer are still applicable. If you feel otherwise, please provide detailed information on the instructions you feel are incorrect.

     

    The tech note does still include information for no-longer supported Mac versions and I'm submitting updates to remove these old, no longer supported versions.

     

     

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    Paul DarkyAuthor
    Inspiring
    December 22, 2019

    I have Safari 13.0.4 and Mac OS 10.13.6

     

    - Step 2 says:

     

    "Click the Websites tab and scroll down to the Plug-ins section. Locate the Adobe Flash Player entry."

     

    (you can see screenshot number 1)

     

    - When I do that on Safari 13.0.4 there is no "Adobe Flash Player entry"

     

    (you can see screenshot number 2)

     

     

     

     

     

    _maria_
    Community Manager
    _maria_Community Manager
    Community Manager
    January 6, 2020

    The screenshot of your Safari > Preferences > Websites indicates Flash Player is not installed, or not installed correctly.

     

    Here's a screenshot of my Safari > Preferences > Websites and System Preferences without Flash Player installed:

    Notice there is no 'Plug-ins' section in Safari > Preferences > Websites, not Flash Player Settings Manager in System Preferences.

     

     

    And the same after Flash Player is installed:

    Safari > Preferences > Webistes > Plug-ins section is now present, and Flash Player Settings Manager is present in System Preferences.

     

    Please ensure Flash Player is properly installed on your system.  To download Flash Player NPAPI for Safari/Firefox, go to https://get.adobe.com/flashplayer using Safari or Firefox browser.  The page contains OS/browser detection to offer the correct plugin for the OS/browser combination in use.

    _maria_
    Community Manager
    _maria_Community Manager
    Community Manager
    December 10, 2019

    The Firefox tech note you link to was depracated some tiem back and we now redirect directly to Firefox's tech note, https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/why-do-i-have-click-activate-plugins.  Not sure why it's not happening for the localized version of the tech note, however, I've escalated the issue.

     

    For the Safari tech note, we'll review and update accordingly.

     

     

    After being an Adobe´s custommer for more than fifteen years I would like to be able to show some respect to the users of my websites. But that would require some respect from Adobe to it´s users.

    Adobe doesn't control how a browser handles Flash Player plugin.  It's entirely up to them.  We try to update the tech not when vendors, who don't notify us of their changes, change how they handle the way their browser detects and loads Flash Player. 

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    Paul DarkyAuthor
    Inspiring
    December 14, 2019

    I understand that but the last updates were done on 2017.

     

    I think that should be done at least once a year. Don´t you think so?

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    Test Screen Name
    Legend
    December 9, 2019

    Credit where it's due: Adobe don't decide whether Flash runs in Safari, Apple do. And it is Apple who will close it down. Meanwhile, Google will close it down in Chrome, Microsoft will close it down in Edge and Internet Explorer, and so on. They are all deliberately changing it and making it harder. When they have all closed it down, Adobe will take Flash away. 

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      Paul DarkyAuthor
      Inspiring
      December 14, 2019

      I´m talking about the links on Adobe´s website with instructions on how to ENABLE FLASH PLAYER ON SAFARI AND FIREFOX.

       

      If you read the links I wrote both are in:

       

      https://helpx.adobe.com/

       

      which belong to Adobe.

      _maria_
      Community Manager
      _maria_Community Manager
      Community Manager
      December 14, 2019
      If you read the links I wrote both are in:

https://helpx.adobe.com/

which belong to Adobe.

       

      The link to Enable Flash in Firefox on https://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player.html is the link to Mozila's tech note, not the deprecated Adobe tech note:

       

      The link on the localized https://helpx.adobe.com/es/flash-player.html page is also to the Mozilla tech note, not the deprecated Adobe tech note:

       

      I've also inquried about the deprecated localized tech note not redirecting to Mozilla's localized technote.

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