Enable flash plugin won't stay enabled
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For some reason my browser will not keep the "Enable Flash Plugin" checkbox checked since updating to 3.3. If I go to a different settings page and then back to the Webpages Settings, the box is unchecked again. Can anyone tell me what I'm overlooking (if anything)?
From my About page -
Vivaldi: 3.3.2022.45 (Stable channel) (64-bit)
Revision: a05c4d885c8da0745ffe551e567e84b9fb6a5889
OS: Windows 10 OS Version 2004 (Build 19645.1)
JavaScript: V8 8.5.210.20
Flash: 32.0.0.433
C:\WINDOWS\system32\Macromed\Flash\pepflashplayer64_32_0_0_433.dll
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/85.0.4183.106 Safari/537.36 -
@dunrobin Hi, here's some reading on the topic:
https://www.maketecheasier.com/browsers-ending-flash-support/
https://blog.google/products/chrome/saying-goodbye-flash-chrome/
https://www.chromium.org/flash-roadmapUnfortunately, Vivaldi being based on Chromium it will most likely follow the same path when the time comes.
A workaround that will work for now:
https://www.chromium.org/administrators/policy-list-3#PluginsAllowedForUrls
https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/39835/latest-vivaldi-update-flash-handling-at-facebook -
@Pathduck Thanks for the info. I knew that flash support was ending soon, but I was surprised that the "Enable Flash Plugin" checkbox is still available in Settings if it isn't going to work anymore. It would be less confusing if they removed it altogether.
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