Saying goodbye to Flash in Chrome

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Today, Adobe announced its plans to stop supporting Flash at the end of 2020.

For 20 years, Flash has helped shape the way that you play games, watch videos and run applications on the web. But over the last few years, Flash has become less common. Three years ago, 80 percent of desktop Chrome users visited a site with Flash each day. Today usage is only 17 percent and continues to decline.

This trend reveals that sites are migrating to open web technologies, which are faster and more power-efficient than Flash. They’re also more secure, so you can be safer while shopping, banking, or reading sensitive documents. They also work on both mobile and desktop, so you can visit your favorite site anywhere.

These open web technologies became the default experience for Chrome late last year when sites started needing to ask your permission to run Flash. Chrome will continue phasing out Flash over the next few years, first by asking for your permission to run Flash in more situations, and eventually disabling it by default. We will remove Flash completely from Chrome toward the end of 2020.

If you regularly visit a site that uses Flash today, you may be wondering how this affects you. If the site migrates to open web standards, you shouldn’t notice much difference except that you'll no longer see prompts to run Flash on that site. If the site continues to use Flash, and you give the site permission to run Flash, it will work through the end of 2020.

It’s taken a lot of close work with Adobe, other browsers, and major publishers to make sure the web is ready to be Flash-free. We’re supportive of Adobe’s announcement today, and we look forward to working with everyone to make the web even better.
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The Australian government still broadcasts its livestreams of parliament via flash. I don't think anyone's told them that flash is being killed off, so that's one major thing we're losing with Flash's demise.

No more afternoons watching politicians scream at each other like children.

edit: It also means we lose the Sonic Inflation Adventure triology.
 
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  1. Go to https://www.adobe.com/support/flashplayer/debug_downloads.html
  2. Find the section for your operating system
  3. Look for a link to download "Flash Player projector" (if it says "content debugger" you're looking at the wrong download link)
  4. Click the link
    1. Wintards should run the .exe
    2. Macfags should do whatever the Hell you're supposed to do with .dmg files
    3. Lincucks need to extract the tarball and then run the flashplayer executable
  5. Download the .swf files of your choice
Now all you need is the .swf file you're interested in, and you can play all of your weird porn games without worrying about browsers dropping Flash Player support.
 
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SIGSEGV said:
  1. Go to https://www.adobe.com/support/flashplayer/debug_downloads.html
  2. Find the section for your operating system
  3. Look for a link to download "Flash Player projector" (if it says "content debugger" you're looking at the wrong download link)
  4. Click the link
    1. Wintards should run the .exe
    2. Macfags should do whatever the Hell you're supposed to do with .dmg files
    3. Lincucks need to extract the tarball and then run the flashplayer executable
  5. Download the .swf files of your choice
Now all you need is the .swf file you're interested in, and you can play all of your weird porn games without worrying about browsers dropping Flash Player support.
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AFAIK the Flash Player Projector works better than the Flash Player browser plugin ever worked.
 
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Banworld said:
I feel a great disturbance on Newgrounds, as if millions of porn game masturbators suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.

Although I think Newgrounds has a Chrome addon to keep flash games alive.
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One of the guys over there started an open-source emulator to deal with that problem a year ago.

Ruffle

Flash Player emulator written in the Rust programming language
ruffle.rs ruffle.rs
The same guy also created Swivel to convert .swf files to .mp4s
 
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My local government has all the GIS mapping and tax maps done in some system that needs flash to work. They spent big money "modernizing" to COMPUTERS! from the paper maps that worked for 100 years.
Bet they feel dumb now.
 
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Aidan said:
I've no love for flash but the nostalgia for the games is real, fortunately I'm sure we'll always be able to play those games.
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That's been my presumption. That no support doesn't mean they just won't work anymore one day, though you might need to get an emulator or add-on to keep things working.

Which I'll do. There's some neat Flash games out there it would be a shame to lose.
 
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I remember when the iPad came out and everyone around me treated it like God's gift from Heaven. Except it didn't support Flash, which at the time was 90% of the usable Internet, including streaming video. So rather than buy a thousand-dollar paperweight that would die the minute it got near a glass of water anyway, I made it my # 1 reason to never use an Apple product ever again. I've been dragging and dropping files and running emulators on things other than Apple ever since.

I have Flash to thank for that, even though, on the other hand, Flash could also be a crash happy piece of garbage. It also gave me warm memories of spending too much time on Newgrounds making Bulma go "Cheeseburger, cheeseburger, barbecue sauce" and watching the cartoon kids kill themselves with my friends in the middle school library.
 
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Chrome has akready deprecate Flash support a few years now. Flash, itself, is entering End of Life. Support has already been deprecated.
 
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Jared™ said:
Chrome has akready deprecate Flash support a few years now. Flash, itself, is entering End of Life. Support has already been deprecated.
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Chrome will just ask you if you want to run flash if you click the little flash icon. It's blocked by default but still usable without much hassle.
 
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