Flashback
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@LonM Certainly for those using WaybackMachine.
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I uninstalled Flash completely yesterday. I only needed it for one site anymore, and I can live without it, so there was no point in keeping it.
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When I configure a Vivaldi install, I open chrome://settings and configure it to always block Flash. It's a major security risk, and I refuse to allow it to even be used on a per-site basis.
The same goes for Java. If I install it at all, I disable the browser plugin in Java's settings due to the fact that it's also a major security risk.
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When I configure a Vivaldi install, I open chrome://settings and configure it to always block Flash. It's a major security risk, and I refuse to allow it to even be used on a per-site basis.
The same goes for Java. If I install it at all, I disable the browser plugin in Java's settings due to the fact that it's also a major security risk.
Same here, I always block Flash and especially Java must be over 10 yrs no Java, never use it...glad Flash is ending
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Coincidentally I came here to add JRE (java runtime machine). After reading 95% of topic and ready to reply, @GT500, which nick sounds familiar, was already did.
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flashplayer is disable by default. The slider is greyed out
Block sites from running Flash (recommended)
If anyone decides to allow, the slider is blue
Ask first
Also, allow/deny per site
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Flash may still be used by news sites in smaller countries...
...and big countries like China. A lot of sites uses Flash, and Flash has a Chinese partner that owns a Flash games site and its distribution. You can't get rid of Flash like get rid of Windows XP.
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I'm sure that people have had lots of fun from Flash-based games. However, Flash also shows up in many very solemn uses in business. For example, a major service vendor in the USA which handles employee payroll for many other companies was (when I last checked) using Flash-based technology for employees to access their pay and tax-deduction records.
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I ditched flash about 10 years ago and have not missed it.
There are just too many security holes... and the internet is supposed to a place of progress. In my opinion we should not be regressing to suit corporations who are too cheap or lazy to embrace newer and more secure technologies.
I, personally, have no use for flash
For those projects developed in-house, and used only in-house, I suppose(?) there is less harm.Thankfully Vivaldi has flash is disabled by default.
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For average Joe like myself, Flash is still something you encounter here and there and if it doesn't work it's frustrating. Every so often (3 times a year?) I run into flash problems with Vivaldi - usually after an update. Then, nothing I do in Vivaldi works (enabling flash in settings, allowing it in the site specific settings, downloading the latest flash version etc.). I just see the puzzle icon. Right-click 'run plugin' didn't do anything).
Turns out I needed to update Chrome on my computer to make it work in Vivaldi. (!)
There is not enough info on the help sites google finds (https://help.vivaldi.com/article/enabling-flash/ and https://help.vivaldi.com/article/enabling-flash/). I can see some people getting frustrated with Vivaldi because of that. I suggest to add a vivaldi specific troubleshooting guide
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I'm struggling to understand exactly what this new options does.
What it seems to actually do:
**If it's off, there's no Flash support on any site, even if you explicitly allow it for a given site.
If it's on, it's on with every site, even if you block it for a given site.**
That's rather limiting, to say the least. I prefer the old way: Off by default, but able to be allowed for a given site, which is exactly what I assumed the setting would permit when it was Off.
What am I missing? I find it impossible to believe that what existed in Chromium has been completely neutered by this new setting.
Yes, I know Flash is being deprecated, but it's not gone yet....
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Flash is obviously dead and there are fewer and fewer pages that require flash, a few exceptions apart. Mobile phones have not supported flash for a long time.
In view of new technologies, it is possible to supply content previously reserved only for flash, not only HTML5, there is also WebGl, Unity etc., more in line with current contents that are also playable by mobile devices. Therefore I don't miss flash, no more than 5 1/4 disks -
@Catweazle said in Flashback:
Therefore I don't miss flash, no more than 5 1/4 disks
Sometimes the good old games are surely missed (Digger/Sokoban..)
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@rseiler With the old way, after Chromium 69 or something, you were not able to save the setting to allow Flash on a site. After restart Vivaldi would forget it, and there was little Vivaldi developers could do about it without writing the whole site settings UI from scratch.
There is a way to allow (and remember!) Flash on specific sites without allowing it globally. Have a look at these posts:
https://forum.vivaldi.net/post/232265
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@Pathduck Thanks a lot for that: policy/reg will be fine, now that I know it exists.
Yes, I had noticed for a while now that the Chromium allowance didn't stick (it doesn't in Chrome, either, so it's not a Vivaldi thing), but I understood that they were doing it as part of their long-term phase-out plan. It was inconvenient, but could still be adjusted easily.
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One more coincidence, I came here to change my notify prefs of this thread and met a very familiar nickname ......
Ouch... got one more reply before finishing
Edited: removed the duplicated parts, copy & paste
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They really should update the documentation* to take the Policy fix into account for those who want to brave the jungles of the Windows Registry
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Yes, that would be a good idea.
For the reg method, it should be noted that, barring some trick which may or may not exist, Vivaldi needs to be restarted to pick up any changes that you might have made in that section of the Registry since last starting the browser.
Also, you can use wildcards in the usual Google way, like:
[*.]adobe.com/
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@Catweazle said in Flashback:
Therefore I don't miss flash, no more than 5 1/4 disks
Sometimes the good old games are surely missed (Digger/Sokoban..)
Nor these, there is equally in Html5 and other formats
https://www.htmlgames.com/Classic+games
https://itch.io/games/html5/tag-classic
https://html5games.com/All-Games
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@Catweazle Besides my j/k was OT, thanks for the links.