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Flash application in web browsers after End of Life

Community Beginner ,
Jun 12, 2020 Jun 12, 2020

Hi,

In our company we have a Flex/Flash application running in web browsers. It's not public, it's only used in our Intranet.

I've read "Adobe Flash Player EOL Enterprise Information Page" and I've also read Adobe Flash Player Administration guide.

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

 

My question is: if we put our Intranet URL into the whitelist in file "mms.cfg", what will happen after December 2020?

Will we be able to run the application (at our own risk) in any web browser? I'm doubting about this, as I've read browser sites and for example Chrome is going to block Flash Player in January 2021 [Flash Player blocked as "out of date" (Target: All Chrome versions - Jan 2021)].

Will we be able to run the application in an old version of any web browser?

 

What I mean is: what's the point of Flash Player whitelist if web browsers are going to block it anyway in January 2021. Or did I miss anything?

 

Can you help me to understand all this? 

Thanks in advance.

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Adobe Employee , Jul 30, 2020 Jul 30, 2020

Sorry about that.  Apparently I'm not getting email notifications from forum posts, or they're getting filtered out.

 

Yeah, your sense is correct.  The allowList feature is about enabling sysadmins to reduce their attack surface by limiting the domains that Flash Player will load content from.  It's not going to help you in a scenario where the browser's plug-in APIs go away.  It's really there to help you lock down an isolated environment where you need to run an old browser and Flash combinat

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New Here ,
Feb 04, 2021 Feb 04, 2021

how could you end it like that when I am in school flash games were the only things that keep me sane enough to be around people so thanks flash for ruing my life  [rude remarks removed by moderator.]

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New Here ,
Feb 04, 2021 Feb 04, 2021

Dear, maybe i can help you. 

I wrap the browser funciotionality using electron forcing the app to use a old version of flash without this restriction. 

 

This could work, for a time, in the midlewhile you can migrate the applications.

 

Best regards

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Adobe Employee ,
Feb 04, 2021 Feb 04, 2021

Electron is based on Chromium.  As Google has dropped support for Flash Player in Chromium, Electron is no longer a viable solution.  From https://www.electronjs.org/docs/tutorial/using-pepper-flash-plugin:

 

Electron no longer supports the Pepper Flash plugin, as Chrome has removed support.

See Chromium's Flash Roadmap for more details.

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