New Windows 10 update permanently removes Adobe Flash

[left-of-center2012]

In September, Microsoft confirmed it was ending support for Adobe Flash Player on its Chromium-based Edge and legacy Edge browsers as well as Internet Explorer 11 at the end of 2020. But the company also detailed future enterprise support options for customers that need to retain Flash for line-of-business applications.

"Microsoft Edge will allow Adobe Flash Player to load as a plug-in via the Internet Explorer mode feature. Inherently, Internet Explorer 11 will also allow this. Once you make the switch from Microsoft provided Adobe Flash Player, it will be treated as any other third-party plug-in and will not receive Customer Support from Microsoft," Microsoft said at the time.

In the past, Microsoft has worked with Adobe to deliver Flash updates for the browser plug-in in order to ensure end users were protected from exploits and malware targeting Flash Player security flaws. This new update removes Flash Player from Windows devices and cannot be uninstalled, Microsoft says in a new support note.

Microsoft has also detailed two methods that users and admins can follow to continue using Flash Player after the update is installed. Users can reset a device to an earlier system restore point. However, users need to explicitly enable this feature and a system restore point must have been created on the Windows device before the update is applied. The other option is to reinstall Windows without applying the update.

https://www.zdnet.com/google-amp/article/microsoft-did-some-research-now-its-angry-about-what-it-found/

[Just_Vote_Dem]

1. Is Flash still used on many websites?

Is it dangerous to run on my computer if I'm not using it on the internet, without an update?

[left-of-center2012]

2. I do not know

Just passing along this article.

[Just_Vote_Dem]

3. Gotcha

Thanks anyway

[Demsrule86]

4. Without flash many websites and pictures won't load.

I still have it for chrome.

[Just_Vote_Dem]

5. Ugh. And it's not going to be updated.

Thanks for the info

[FreeState]

6. I don't have it installed and never have an issue

It's mostly old websites that have not been updated in the last 5 years. Very few modern sites us it (like less than 1%).

https://www.chromium.org/flash-roadmap/flash-usage-trends

[Demsrule86]

16. I use Chrome so we shall see. I don't understand the war on Flash...if you are careful it is not a

threat.

[Klaralven]

7. National Weather Service uses Flash for animation when you "loop" the radar display

See https://radar.weather.gov/radar.php?rid=DIX&product=N0R&overlay=11101111&loop=yes for example.

I have Flash disabled per the default on some Chrome browsers, and "ask first" on other machines.

Having Flash disabled is probably more of a problem for organizations which used it for some application on their intranet.

[woodsprite]

10. My daughter said the Medicaid site uses it. nt

[marmar]

8. My laptop keeps undoing Windows updates that are downloaded.

.... and I know there's a regimen for getting it to stop but maybe I don't want to now.

[grantcart]

9. Isn't flash going away in Dec?

[left-of-center2012]

11. Did you read the first sentence of the post?

“In September, Microsoft confirmed it was ending support for Adobe Flash Player on its Chromium-based Edge and legacy Edge browsers as well as Internet Explorer 11 at the end of 2020.”

[grantcart]

12. Yes what I was asking was different. I use a site that requires flash

But stated that in Dec it was being disabled, not that Microsoft was ending support.

[left-of-center2012]

13. So you are asking ...

Will you be able to continue using it after December?

[Elwood P Dowd]

14. How does this affect Free Republic

and all their Windows 95 computers?

[Totally Tunsie]

15. Windows 10 Updates also do some nasty things to your computer.

I did an Update on 10/14. Since that date, I have been on the phone with Dell India every f*n day and night, often for 10 hours at a time, trying to get my computer operating as it did before the update. I've talked to/worked with at least 17 technicians. I've uninstalled and re-installed Windows virtually every day. Ready to go over the edge much?

I thought we were finally done until I booted up today. Seems to start up quickly enough, everything seems to be where it should be, but what new hell is the 2" wide vertical discolored stripe about 1.5 inches from the right edge of my screen? What a PITA.

I just can't do it tonight. I need to have a night I'm not attached to my phone, watching buffering circles or incremental rising of completion percentages. I need to speak tonight with people who speak English as their first language. Maybe I need to just get off this computer...

[Demsrule86]

17. The last update made it so my computer would not load windows...used Linux to fix it...

you can't stop updates now but I have it so they have to ask. Thus I can take precautions. I have reversed problematic updates.

[Initech]

18. I didn't even know Flash was still a thing.

I would have thought most web development has switched over to HTML 5/6 by now.

[The Revolution]

19. Flash goes away at the end of the year

Flash is going away at the end of the year anyway. Even if you still have the plugin, it won't function after the end of the year (this EOL is coded into the plugin itself). You'd have to change your system time to some point in the past...which just tends to cause other problems