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November 21, 2024
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Flash Player

  • November 21, 2024
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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!

    Correct answer kglad

    apple killed it.

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    LLWHOPPERWHOPPER
    Participant
    November 27, 2024

    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.

    kglad
    Community Expert
    kgladCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    November 27, 2024

    they're not looking here.

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      LLWHOPPERWHOPPER
      Participant
      November 27, 2024

      I agree, Adobe, BRING BACK FLASH!!!

        Joseph Labrecque
        Community Expert
        Joseph LabrecqueCommunity Expert
        Community Expert
        November 25, 2024

        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... 

          PoseMotion
          PoseMotionAuthor
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          November 25, 2024

          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.

          kglad
          Community Expert
          kgladCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
          Community Expert
          November 21, 2024

          apple killed it.

            PoseMotion
            PoseMotionAuthor
            Participating Frequently
            November 21, 2024

            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.

            kglad
            Community Expert
            kgladCommunity Expert
            Community Expert
            November 22, 2024

            So sad. Even if other browsers didn't want to support it, even though they support many other extensions, Adobe could fork Chrome and make Adobe Browser that supports Flash. Bring back the creativity.


            not likely. it looks like 2024 may be the end of the road for adobe flash/animate

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