Adobe displays Flash Player end of life popup on Windows devices

[Karlston]

Adobe displays Flash Player end of life popup on Windows devices

 

If you have installed a recent version of Adobe Flash Player on a Windows machine, you may see a popup displayed by the program that informs you that Flash support is ending on December 31, 2020.

 

 

Adobe announced years ago that it would end support for Adobe Flash in 2020; browser makers such as Google, Microsoft or Mozilla pledged to remove Flash functionality from web browsers at the same time to limit security issues and other potential issues.

 

Some browsers include Adobe Flash natively; most Chromium-based browsers, including Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge, do. Other browsers require a plugin that needs to be installed, and it is users of the latter that Adobe tries to reach with its popup message.

 

The message in its entirety:

Thank you for using Adobe Flash Player.

 

Adobe will stop supporting Flash Player after December 31, 2020.

 

To help secure your system, Adobe will block Flash content from running in Flash Player beginning January 12, 2021. Please see the Adobe Flash Player EOL General Information Page for more details.

 

Adobe strongly recommends immediately removing Flash Player from your system by clicking the "Uninstall" button.

Flash Player's update check, run once every seven days, displays the popup when it is run the next time. Users have options to select "remind me later" or to "uninstall". The latter starts the uninstallation process, the former will display the warning again in the near future.

Uninstall Adobe Flash

 

Administrators may uninstall Adobe Flash Player from Windows systems in the following way (if the popup has not been displayed yet or skipped):

1. Use Windows-I to open the Settings application, or, select Start > Settings.
2. Switch to Apps.
3. Use the search field to find Flash.
4. Click on the Adobe Flash Player entry to display available options.
5. Select the uninstall button.
6. Follow the uninstall instructions.

Flash Player is uninstalled and it cannot be used on the system anymore or by browsers that use its plugin anymore after the uninstallation.

Note: The uninstallation does not remove Flash Player in Chromium-based browsers such as Chrome or Microsoft Edge. The companies need to release updates for the browsers that remove Flash from it.

 

 

Not all Flash Player versions include the blocking code to prevent the execution of Flash content. Older versions of Flash come without it, but these should be considered insecure as they contain security issues that Adobe patched in the newer versions.

 

Adobe displays Flash Player end of life popup on Windows devices

[l0gic]

Thanks god, end of virus.

 

[zanderthunder]

1 hour ago, Karlston said:

The companies need to release updates for the browsers that remove Flash from it.

According to Chromium, the upcoming version 88 (releasing next January) will remove the Flash component. So I expect any Chromium-based browsers will no longer provide any references to Adobe Flash, when they adopted Chromium 88.
 

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Flash Support Removed from Chromium (Target: Chrome 88+ - Jan 2021)

Summary

Flash support/ capability will be complete removed from Chromium.  It will no longer be possible to enable Flash Player with Enterprise policy in Chrome 88+.

Rationale

Align with Adobe's announced plan to end support.

Announcements/ Artifacts

• Tracking issue for the removal of Flash Player support.

Notes for Administrators

• How to audit existing Flash usage
• HARMAN offers a number of commercial support options for Flash Player beyond 2020.  These can be used in complement with Chrome's Legacy Browser Support (LBS), allowing for both to remain secure and up to date.

Source:
https://www.chromium.org/flash-roadmap#TOC-Flash-Support-Removed-from-Chromium-Target:-Chrome-88---Jan-2021-

 

For Mozilla Firefox, the upcoming Firefox 85 will also be completely removing Adobe Flash support.

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Firefox version 84 will be the final version to support Flash. Firefox version 85 (release date: January 26, 2021) will ship without Flash support, improving our performance and security. There will be no setting to re-enable Flash support.

Source:

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/end-support-adobe-flash

 

For those who are still depend on outdated Adobe Flash (especially enterprise customers), the only way for them to use Adobe Flash beyond the cut-off date (a.k.a. after January 12, 2021) is to contact Adobe’s official distribution licensing partner, HARMAN, for more information about their commercial support offerings.

[spinalgr1998]

Some solutions that Adobe Flash will working and after 12 January 2021 :

 

Here are the solutions :

 

1 ) effectRuFlash

 

2 ) MegaFlashAio

 

3 ) VivaldiPortableHANDY
 

4 ) DoomStormBlog

[zanderthunder]

1 hour ago, spinalgr1998 said:

Some solutions that Adobe Flash will working and after 12 January 2021 :

 

Here are the solutions :

 

1 ) effectRuFlash

 

2 ) MegaFlashAio

 

3 ) VivaldiPortableHANDY
 

4 ) DoomStormBlog

Even so, exercise caution when using them as some of these old Flash versions have unpatched vulnerabilities and exploits, despite that these old versions don't carry the time-bomb mechanism.