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December 9, 2020
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Flash Player will be blocked after 2021

  • December 9, 2020
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Hello, I am from Argentina and I work in a company where an intranet system is used where several "screens" are .SWF files programmed in Adobe Flex.

I am aware that all Flash content will be blocked from browsers in 2021.
If 2021 arrives and we cannot use our system, the company will have to close because it could not operate.
I was looking for several solutions to this problem and one that I found was HARMAN Packaged Browser but the prices are too high and it would be impossible to pay them for this company.

Therefore I want to know if, blocking all kinds of updates to Windows, Firefox, Flash and modifying the flash mms.cfg and putting my intranet application in my 'white list'. Can I continue using this system for a while longer, until can we do the migration? It's the only "solution" I have and I don't know what to do anymore.

I clarify that I entered this company in August 2020 and was not aware that they had a system that used Flash or that Flash was going to let it work in 2021. And making a migration of the current system would take several months because it is too big and we no longer have time . Thanks for reading and any answer or contribution is very helpful.

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    Correct answer jeromiec83223024

    You don't need to close the company.  You *will* need to do a little work and research over the next couple weeks.

     

    Please check out the Enterprise Enablement section of the Flash Player Administration Guide, here (pp. 28): 

    https://www.adobe.com/content/dam/acom/en/devnet/flashplayer/articles/flash_player_admin_guide/pdf/latest/flash_player_32_0_admin_guide.pdf

     

    It's probably also important to take a look at the roadmap for individual browser vendors.  Most major browser vendors plan to remove the plug-in interfaces that support Flash Player in the browser.  You'll need to make some decisions about how you want to ensure that your employees have a browser that can run Flash Player, in addition to configuring Flash Player so that it will continue to load your internal application during your transition period.

     

    Details and links to the browser roadmaps are in the original EOL announcement from 2017:

    https://theblog.adobe.com/adobe-flash-update/

     

    For completeness, here's the Enteprise EOL FAQ too: 

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

     

    When thinking about how to migrate your Flex application, you might want to take a look at the Apache Royale project.  They offer a solution for transpiling Flex applications to JavaScript and HTML.  It's not as easy as a one-click conversion, but it might be a good low-cost way to migrate that avoids a complete re-write of the application.

     

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    Anonymous
    December 11, 2020

    Flash, you will always be in our hearts.

      jeromiec83223024
      jeromiec83223024Correct answer
      Inspiring
      December 10, 2020

      You don't need to close the company.  You *will* need to do a little work and research over the next couple weeks.

       

      Please check out the Enterprise Enablement section of the Flash Player Administration Guide, here (pp. 28): 

      https://www.adobe.com/content/dam/acom/en/devnet/flashplayer/articles/flash_player_admin_guide/pdf/latest/flash_player_32_0_admin_guide.pdf

       

      It's probably also important to take a look at the roadmap for individual browser vendors.  Most major browser vendors plan to remove the plug-in interfaces that support Flash Player in the browser.  You'll need to make some decisions about how you want to ensure that your employees have a browser that can run Flash Player, in addition to configuring Flash Player so that it will continue to load your internal application during your transition period.

       

      Details and links to the browser roadmaps are in the original EOL announcement from 2017:

      https://theblog.adobe.com/adobe-flash-update/

       

      For completeness, here's the Enteprise EOL FAQ too: 

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

       

      When thinking about how to migrate your Flex application, you might want to take a look at the Apache Royale project.  They offer a solution for transpiling Flex applications to JavaScript and HTML.  It's not as easy as a one-click conversion, but it might be a good low-cost way to migrate that avoids a complete re-write of the application.

       

      Just Shoot Me
      Just Shoot Me
      Legend
      December 9, 2020

      Your post was moved over from the "Using the Community" forum, which is for getting help using this forum system, to a better forum.


      I hope this helps. Best of luck to you.

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      Anonymous
      December 9, 2020

      Using ADOBE AIR or Apache Royale is not a solution because it is not compatible.

      As my system is intranet, do I have any advantages or a temporary patch?

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