Adobe Flash Player finally bows out

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Adobe Flash Player is finally laid to rest

The beleaguered web browser plug-in will no longer receive security updates from Adobe.

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It's Game Over For FarmVille, as Flash Also Buys the Farm - Slashdot

The last day of the year was also the last day for FarmVille, one of the original addictive Facebook games. From a report: FarmVille, which allowed players to cultivate colorful cartoonish farms by tending crops and caring for livestock, had 30 million daily players at its peak. But game...

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Adobe Now Shows Alerts in Windows 10 To Uninstall Flash Player - Slashdot

With the Flash Player officially reaching the end of life tomorrow, Adobe has started to display alerts on Windows computers recommending that users uninstall Flash Player. From a report: When Flash Player is installed, it creates a scheduled task named 'Adobe Flash Player PPAPI Notifier' that...

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Flash Is About To Die, But Classic Flash Games Will Live On - Slashdot

Fast Company's technology editor harrymcc writes: After years of growing technical irrelevance and security concerns, the Flash browser plug-in will reach the end of the road on January 12 when Adobe blocks its ability to display content. The web will survive just fine. But there's a huge...

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When Adobe Stopped Flash Content From Running It Also Stopped A Chinese Railroad

Adobe’s Flash, the web browser plug-in that powered so very many crappy games, confusing interfaces, and animated icons of the early web like Homestar Runner is now finally gone, after a long, slow, protracted death. For most of us, this just means that some goofy webgame you searched for out of...

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Chrome 88 Released, Removing Adobe Flash -- and FTP - Slashdot

Google released Chrome 88 this week — and besides improving its dark mode support, they removed support for both Adobe Flash and FTP. PC World calls it "the end of two eras." The most noteworthy change in this update is what's not included. Chrome 88 lays Adobe Flash and the FTP protocol t...

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Firefox 85 Hammers the Final Nail Into the Adobe Flash Coffin - Slashdot

With Mozilla's release of Firefox 85 on Tuesday, Adobe's once ubiquitous Flash technology is really gone for good. The software had been widely used to expand gaming, video and animation on the web, though Adobe stopped supporting it at the end of 2020. Firefox was the last major browser to...

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What took it's place?

 

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Supposedly new features of various web browsers and the like, along with new generation animation programs & associated new and updated standards. Not sure if the changeover has been quite as successful as claimed though.

 

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To Re-Enable Flash Support, South Africa's Tax Agency Released Its Own Web Browser - Slashdot

"The South African Revenue Service (SARS) has released this week its own custom web browser," reports ZDNet, "for the sole purpose of re-enabling Adobe Flash Player support, rather than port its existing website from using Flash to HTML-based web forms." To prevent the app from continuing to be...

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Microsoft Starts Removing Flash From Windows Devices - Slashdot

Microsoft has begun deploying this week KB4577586, a Windows update that permanently removes the Adobe Flash Player software from Windows devices. From a report: The update was formally announced last year at the end of October when Microsoft and other browser makers were preparing for the...

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When Adobe Stopped Flash Content From Running It Also Stopped A Chinese Railroad

Adobe’s Flash, the web browser plug-in that powered so very many crappy games, confusing interfaces, and animated icons of the early web like Homestar Runner is now finally gone, after a long, slow, protracted death. For most of us, this just means that some goofy webgame you searched for out of...

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Only just saw this, but cue safety critical engineering full body shudder!

Even if they were only using it for the visuals on their train tracking system (which the Arstechnica article on this story implies), that's a safety critical usage, because it might enable someone to visually spot a mis-routing that's gotten through their other safety critical systems. For the aerospace equivalent, picture an ATC centre using Flash to run their radar screens....

I'm not fond of a lot of stuff that sees safety critical usage, but Flash! Flash!?!

 

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Flash Version Distributed in China After EOL is Installing Adware - Slashdot

Although the Flash Player app formally reached its end of life on December 31, 2020, Adobe has allowed a local Chinese company to continue distributing Flash inside China, where the application still remains a large part of the local IT ecosystem and is broadly used across both the public and...

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