Adobe flash end of life9/4/2023 ![]() You just add -allow-outdated-plugins to the command to run chrome. ![]() There’s one more thing to do: by adding a command line argument when running chrome.exe we can bypass 1 of the prompts to run Flash, making it a little more convenient. If you’re having trouble, you may find the section titled “How to manually install the Flash plugin?” useful on this page: You’ll note you have to click 3 times to get through the prompts to run Flash. That’s it – we’re pretty much done! Go ahead and run chrome.exe from the zip file you extracted in the previous section, then go to a Flash-enabled webpage to test it out (shameless plug: you can try it on my game here). (I loosely followed the instructions for downloading old chromium versions as described on the official chromium website, here) Run Chromium I put mine in C:\ProgramsPortable\Chromium). Then download the file chrome-win.zip and extract it wherever you want (e.g. I hoped that this we be a good version of Chromium too – and it was – but there could easily be a more recent version that also works (if you find one, please let me know!). I chose one that was released May, 2020 – the same month that the last good Flash Player was released. Chromium is the open-source base that Chrome is built on.Ĭurrent versions of Chromium don’t allow Flash to run anymore, so we have to grab an older one.Įvery release of Chromium if available here. We’ll use an older release of Chromium to run our Flash Player plugin. This means it’s not just a matter of working around the Flash Player, but working around the browser software too. ![]() Now, this is important: Chrome plans to no longer support PPAPI by 2022 and Firefox plans to no longer support NPAPI in their next release, which means that even the Flash Player that doesn’t contain the built-in time bomb will not be able to run in these browsers once the entire NPAPI/PPAPI codebase is deleted from the browser software. I uploaded a copy of the above Flash plugins to my github repo (for my Zeta Flow flash game) in case any of the above download links don’t work. For reference, here are the links to the ActiveX installer (for Internet Explorer) and NPAPI (for Firefox). PPAPI is what Chrome and Opera use for plugins. We’ll be using the PPAPI Flash Player plugin, which you can download here: (The following links are for Windows, for other operating systems see this list) They made a backup on which contains the version we need. So we’ll download this version of Flash player from the Way Back Machine (a trustworthy source, see wikipedia). Nice people on the internet have determined that to be version 32.0.0.371 (source: wikipedia).Īdobe no longer offers any Flash Player downloads period. I haven’t tried this, but I put the details in this section at this end for those interested.įirst, we need to download the last Flash player that didn’t contain the kill-switch to disable itself after January 12, 2021. UPDATE: There is a way to use the newest Flash Player plugin, which involves running a patching tool that removes the date-based kill-switch. The following ad helps support the author of this post: With that out of the way, lets get to it! in Computer Science (specialized in AI), and I am confident one can safely run Flash still with some basic precautions – see the section below on security concerns. I am not an expert in cybersecurity, though I do hold a M.Sc. ![]() And so long as you only visit websites you trust, I see no reason to be worried about the lack of security updates to the Flash player. Instead, my solution is simple: run the last known version of Flash player that doesn’t contain the kill-switch within a browser that also doesn’t contain the kill-switch. However, I wasn’t satisfied with those solutions. Many people are working on solutions to get Flash running again, which I describe at the end. Does this look familiar? We’re going to fix this. In my case, my motivation is to run the Flash game I developed which is still available online to this day. Flash may be old, but there are many reasons why someone might still want to run it, such as playing classic Flash games or running a legacy business application. These instructions are for Windows 10 (users of other operating systems might be able to adapt the steps to get it working for them). This post explains how to get Flash running again, now that Adobe has officially pulled the plug (as of ). ![]()
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