Adobe Flash Player EOL!

[anne1982]

Got a message from Adobe that they will no longer be supporting Flash Player after December 31, 2020 and Adobe will block Flash content from running beginning January 12, 2021. They recommend users to uninstall Flash Player to help protect their systems.


Anyone knows what will be the impacts on our Win7 systems?

Kind regards

Anne

 

[Alejandro85]

Like all end of supports for anything it has effectively NO impact on anything on your computer. Flash will continue to work exactly as it is today, it just won't receive any more updates.

As of now, for quite a few years, Flash only niche is some web applets, and those are less and less used every day by websites. If you're not viewing any website with Flash, you won't effectively notice anything and may safely uninstall it without sideffects. But if you're still getting any Flash webpage, those will continue to work normally, no need to uninstall it if you really need it.

Most likely the end of support will impact more those sites (for their owners, not their users) than anyone else.

 

[file3456]

Anyone knows what will be the impacts on our Win7 systems?

Should be none. Most content that was Flash now uses or at least should use HTML5 which renders in your browser without a plugin.

When you visit YouTube for example, those videos are rendered via HTML5. No plugin like Flash is needed.

Your only trouble will be die hard Flash player hold outs that chose to still render their content, games, etc in Flash. Your flash plugin will work, but it's a risk after updates for it aren't applied anymore to patch potential vulnerabilities. If you want to keep Flash, I'd go into the browser under plugins and change the setting to ask for activation. If you come across a website that A) you don't want to use Flash for, or B) never needed Flash turned on in the first place, then that can help protect you on whether you want to activate Flash or not per website. Which browser are you using?

 

[anne1982]

Many thanks for the valuable information. Wishing you happy and healthy 2021!

Anne

 

[file3456]

Thanks.