Flash player

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January 3, 2021
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Why are they discounted Flash player an now what will replace it ? Other programs use flash player .

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Correct answer _maria_

Flash Player's end-of-life was announced over 3 years ago, giving content developers sufficient time to migrate their content to other technologies. Some have, some have not.

Original announcement from July 2017, with links to browser vendor announcements: https://blog.adobe.com/en/publish/2017/07/25/adobe-flash-update.html

end-of-life FAQ: https://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/end-of-life.html

_maria_

Correct answer

Community Manager

Flash Player's end-of-life was announced over 3 years ago, giving content developers sufficient time to migrate their content to other technologies. Some have, some have not.

Original announcement from July 2017, with links to browser vendor announcements: https://blog.adobe.com/en/publish/2017/07/25/adobe-flash-update.html

end-of-life FAQ: https://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/end-of-life.html

Nancy OShea

Community Expert

Hi @hippymom,

Flash Player was discontinued because the browsers don't want you to use it for security reasons. Nothing replaces it because nothing important on your computer uses Flash. In fact most people will never miss it when it's gone.

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert

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Brian5CEA

Participant

Hi Nancy, My HP Scanner uses adobe Flash Player and without it, the software will NOT run. I just uninstalled Flash plaer thinking it doesn't run much on my computer, now my scanner is useless. Can you give me some suggestions other than throwing out the flatbed scanner please?

Thanks..Brian Kruschel