
Removed from Chromium in January, which means Microsoft Edge and Opera, which are both based on Chromium, are likely to do the same (in theory there could be a delay before they implement the updated code, but we wouldn’t count on it). Google Chrome will block Flash Player as “out of date” as of January 2021, theĭevelopers say.

Safari 14, which doesn’t support Flash, has been available since September. As we say, it’s been a long and gradual process.Īpple was the first browser maker to remove Flash support. Although Microsofts Silverlight was originally conceived as a competitor to Adobe Flash, it now finds itself competing with Abobes Web 2.0 platform, Adobe.
#FLASH PLAYER REPLACEMENT FOR MAC MAC OS X#
Upcoming versions of all the major browsers are expected to remove Flash support, as our colleagues on Computerworld summarised in detail The resulting app from this tool runs in Adobe AIR or Adobe Flash Player, on iOS, Android, Mac OS X or Microsoft Windows.

Technically that’s up to the individual browser makers, but basically the answer is no. Will my web browser still be able to play Flash content? After that, just go to Sys Prefs>Flash Player>Updates, which will show what version is installed.

Older and less frequently updated sites will just stop working, and presumably see traffic drop off a cliff. MPlayerX (not to be confused with MPlayerOSX) is a free and simple media player.Similar in flexibility to VLC Media Player, MPlayerX can play almost any. We imagine that commercially viable websites (ones with a significant advertising income, in other words) will stop using Flash entirely and transition to a different platform, if they haven’t done so already.
