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It may be that in old Android there is still a compatibility, but in view of if there is little security of a Smartphone, using Flash would mean adding another gap.
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@Catweazle You'd need Android Ics 4.0 and a very very legacy Flash version
Puffin still has a sort of flash-in-cloud. -
I am in the HVAC business and use a flash based web appliance for connecting remotely to projects. Will it be possible to use a stand alone current Vivaldi version as a tool to only connect to my projects after Flash is dropped by Chrome? I will not be using this for any "surfing"
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Hi,
I'd like to know if anyone knows about any change on the question and answers I got for this topic.
Can anyone from Vivaldi confirm that we will be able to run a Flash application in Vivaldi 2.10, 3.0 or other old version in January 2021? And that, besides the security issue, we won't have any other risk on that (for example something that deactivates Flash in Vivaldi 3.0)?
Thanks.
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Thanks @Gwen-Dragon.
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I still use flash but for the sole purpose of playing the flash games notably adventure and room escape games.I don't even know where to look for HTML5 alternatives.I am what you would call middle aged and i have a fondness for nostalgia and things "old".
But i know i must embrace change but some of us are stuck in our ways and are rooted in older things.The majority if not all the games on facebook are flash based so a major revamp will occur there no doubt.
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@Priest72 , for Example
https://www.paisdelosjuegos.com.ar/juegos/html5
https://www.1001juegos.com/e/html5
https://html5games.com
etc.
Only search html5 games, WebGL games, Unity games, all this are the current online browsergames format for PC and mobile.
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Flash is necessary to play radio content in the BBC Sounds site. I use this every day. It is the BBC's fault for continuing to use Flash but if Vivaldi stops allowing this use of Flash I will have to use a different browser.
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@DavudE Which still means an old copy of Vivaldi, Chrome, Firefox or Internet Explorer with flash support. But I'm pretty sure most sites will magically switch to newer technologies a month before the official death of flash will arrive.
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Flash is necessary to play radio content in the BBC Sounds site. I use this every day. It is the BBC's fault for continuing to use Flash but if Vivaldi stops allowing this use of Flash I will have to use a different browser.
I think you're mistaken!
I believe that the BBC sites (used to) deliver audio/video through Flash if your browser was configured that way, but it absolutely definitely works with HTML5-based content delivery if you don't have Flash.
I say this as someone using Vivaldi and BBC on computers with/without Flash installed - I could even see that Vivaldi never needed Flash whereas Opera 12 pages were rendered differently and used Flash players (which, incidentally, have a message that they will no longer be supported after Flash end-of-life). Flash officially dies at the end of this December!
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@mossman: Flash won't die as long as businesses and governments refuse to update their infrastructure. My university still strongly depends on Flash and it being deprecated doesn't mean a damn to them, nor anyone else that still uses it. The costs of switching over entire infrastructure is quite high; and even more discouraging when the new technology doesn't offer alternative or similar functionality to the older technology.
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@NovaViper I was pointing out that many sites will stop serving Flash content in a few weeks - not that Flash will instantly disappear.
But with no more Flash updates, sites removing it and browsers making it harder to open Flash content - you won't be using those old sites for very long...
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@mossman , I think that the main problem does not reside in Flash as such, which will invariably disappear from the network, but that pages that continue to use it are unreliable as such, because they show that they have been neglected for a long time, which as such makes it dangerous and little by little the browsers themselves are going to block them and refuse to enter.
That is, either the webmasters get smart and adapt the pages to new formats (Html5, WebGl, etc.) or they will end up like another corpse floating on the web like thousends others.
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IKEA in my country uses flash apps for their planners, so if you wanna design a kitchen, closet system eetc... flash is a must have unfortunately.
Hope they rewrite it soon enough.
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@Gwen-Dragon Yeah, but not in my country. My still needs the flash.
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@Gwen-Dragon NO you are RIGHT. Damn I was checking it like 2 weeks ago. AWESOME, finally can buy some nice closet skipping that super horrible planner from before.
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