Now that millions of students are doing the homeschooling thing, a lot of these free websites are being utilized by teachers to help aid and assist in distance learning. (If you get that, we can be friends.) It came to my attention this morning that there are quite a few websites out there that still use the Flash Player and many of them are educational resource websites. However, in this weird time that we find ourselves living in, Flash has found itself just “mostly dead” and as we all know, mostly dead is slightly alive.

Even Adobe recognizes that it’s time to retire the dinosaur that served us well for more than two decades. The antiquated media player has had its head on the chopping block for nearly three years now and Google announced that sometime near the end of 2020, Flash support would be fully removed from Chrome and Chrome OS. Get help for the legacy version of Microsoft Edge.If you’re like the majority of users, you go about your daily business with Adobe’s Flash Player disabled in the Chrome browser. Note: This topic is for the new Microsoft Edge. The next time you visit a site the uses Flash, the browser will ask for your permission before allowing Flash to run. The Block and Allow lists will be available after you visit a site that uses Flash.

Set the toggle on for the Ask before running Flash option. In the left navigation, select Site permissions. Here’s how to allow or block Flash permanently for individual websites: Other browsers like Google Chrome, Mozilla, and Safari are also planning on removing Adobe Flash in the same timeframe.įor more information about the end of Flash support, see Adobe Flash end of support on December 31, 2020. Microsoft plans to remove Flash from Windows entirely by the end of 2020.īecause Flash will no longer be supported after 2020, it is turned off by default in the new Microsoft Edge. Note: Adobe Flash will no longer be supported after 2020.

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