It will still be possible to run Flash Player and other ActiveX controls using Microsoft Edge's Internet Explorer mode.Īs explained on the Microsoft Edge blog an update was released for Windows 10 and 8.1 that permanently removes Flash as a component of the Windows operating system.

Microsoft announced that the Internet Explorer application will no longer be supported after June 15, 2022.

It is necessary to manually install Flash Player see below for details.

Internet Explorer maintains support for Flash and other ActiveX controls.

Microsoft Edge Legacy was removed from most computers with the April 2021 Windows updates, so it may be difficult to check.

Microsoft planned to remove Flash support from Microsoft Edge Legacy (EdgeHTML) at the end of 2020, but it is unknown whether this actually happened.

The new Microsoft Edge (Edge Chromium) followed the same timeline as Google Chrome for removal of Flash.

The Microsoft Edge team published an update to their timeline for removing Flash support.

Chrome 88, released on January 19, 2021, removed support for Adobe Flash.

In short, running Flash is very difficult. The user is required to add an exception for each site in order to run Flash, and these site settings are cleared every time the browser exits.

In July 2019, Chrome 76 disabled Flash by default, which the user needs to re-enable through the browser settings.

An infobar announced that Chrome would no longer support Flash.

The Chromium project has published a Flash roadmap as well.

Firefox ESR 78.15, released on October 5, 2021, was the last version of Firefox to support Flash Player.

Firefox 85, released on January 26, 2021, completely removed support for Adobe Flash.

In September 2019, Firefox 69 removed the 'always activate' option for Flash, making regular usage of the Flash plugin cumbersome.

Mozilla has published a roadmap for the removal of Flash from Firefox. HARMAN now provides extended support for Adobe Flash to enterprise customers. Users have been prompted to uninstall Flash Player, and recent versions of the plugin refuse to run all Flash content since January 12, 2021.Īdobe also ceased to support AIR at the end of 2020 and transferred development responsibility for Adobe AIR to HARMAN, a subsidiary of Samsung. Adobe announced that it would cease to support Flash Player at the end of 2020.

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