Adobe Flash Player EOL General Information Page

Since Adobe no longer supports Flash Player after December 31, 2020 and blocked Flash content from running in Flash Player beginning January 12, 2021, Adobe strongly recommends all users immediately uninstall Flash Player to help protect their systems.

Some users may continue to see reminders from Adobe to uninstall Flash Player from their system. See below for more details on how to uninstall Flash Player.

UPDATED: January 13, 2021

Adobe stopped supporting Flash Player beginning December 31, 2020 (“EOL Date”), as previously announced in July 2017.

Open standards such as HTML5, WebGL, and WebAssembly have continually matured over the years and serve as viable alternatives for Flash content. Also, major browser vendors are integrating these open standards into their browsers and deprecating most other plug-ins (like Flash Player). See Flash Player EOL announcements from Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Mozilla.

By providing more than three years’ advance notice, Adobe believes that there has been sufficient time for developers, designers, businesses, and other parties to migrate Flash content to new standards. The EOL timing was in coordination with some of the major browser vendors.

After the EOL Date, Adobe will not issue Flash Player updates or security patches. Adobe strongly recommends immediately uninstalling Flash Player. To help secure your system, Adobe blocked Flash content from running in Flash Player beginning January 12, 2021. Major browser vendors have disabled and will continue to disable Flash Player from running.

Flash Player may remain on your system unless you uninstall it. Uninstalling Flash Player will help secure your system since Adobe will not issue Flash Player updates or security patches after the EOL Date. Adobe blocked Flash content from running in Flash Player beginning January 12, 2021 and the major browser vendors have disabled and will continue to disable Flash Player from running after the EOL Date.

Click “Uninstall” when prompted by Adobe, or follow these manual uninstall instructions for Windows and Mac users.

Since Adobe is no longer supporting Flash Player after the EOL Date, Adobe blocked Flash content from running in Flash Player beginning January 12, 2021 to help secure your system. Flash Player may remain on your system unless you uninstall it.

Browsers and operating systems that support Flash Player continue to decrease so Adobe strongly recommends immediately uninstalling Flash Player.

Apple Safari version 14, released for macOS in September 2020, no longer loads Flash Player or runs Flash content. Please visit Apple’s Safari support for more information.

Please visit http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/tech-specs.html for the latest list of Flash-supported browsers and operating systems.

No. Adobe has removed Flash Player download pages from its site. Adobe blocked Flash content from running in Flash Player beginning January 12, 2021.

No. These versions of Flash Player are not authorized by Adobe. You should not use unauthorized versions of Flash Player. Unauthorized downloads are a common source of malware and viruses.

Adobe will not issue Flash Player updates or security patches after the EOL Date. Adobe strongly recommends uninstalling Flash Player immediately.

Adobe Connect has progressively transitioned to
a modern Flash- free architecture with the following —

HTML browser client

For Presenters & Participants to host or join Adobe Connect rooms via any modern browser.

Native desktop application for Windows

Eliminating the need for Flash
plug-ins in Adobe Connect rooms.

Native desktop application for
Mac

Eliminating the need for Flash
plug-ins in Adobe Connect rooms.

HTML SDK 2020, V11

SDK and Web-services API available to build HTML-based custom apps & integrations

Coming Soon

Native Mobile apps

For Presenters & Participants to host or join Adobe Connect rooms via any mobile device

*Release dates subject to change

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We strongly recommend that our customers migrate their content, rooms, and users to HTML-based Standard Viewᴺᵉʷ by Jun 2021.

Starting Dec 31, 2021, users will no longer be able to join Adobe Connect rooms with old Flash-based browsers such as IE 11. To aid the migration, Adobe Connect will continue interim support for Flash-based Classic View in its native desktop applications until Jun 2021.

What you need to know to plan your migration to Standard View

*Release dates subject to change

Have questions? Join the discussion forum

How can you be ready?

Important considerations while choosing your interface setting — Classic View, Standard View, Standard View with enhanced audio

Upcoming changes with Adobe Connect 11.2 — What users need to know

Create your Flash to HTML content migration plan to manage old Flash content & recordings

Learn more about Standard View — new user interface of Adobe Connect

Migrating Legacy Flash eLearning Content to HTML5

Publishing files To HTML5 using
Adobe Captivate

Last Updated : 12/01/2021

Frequently Asked Questions

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General Questions

When did Adobe announce the end-of-life for Flash Player?

On July 25, 2017, Adobe announced plans to end-of-life the Flash Player on Dec 31, 2020. See original communication here. All modern browsers have been notifying users and will no longer allow enabling Flash players from Jan 12, 2021. More information here .

Will my old Flash content continue to work in my Adobe Connect rooms?

Hosted customers can continue using Flash content in Adobe Connect rooms set to Classic View until Jun 2021. On-premise customers can do the same until they upgrade to C11.2. Please refer to the resources on General Information tab for recommendations to transition your Flash content to HTML.

What will happen if a user is trying to view old recordings with Flash content in the new HTML browser client?

If a user is trying to view an old recording with Flash content in HTML browser, it will play in Standard View but show ‘content not supported’ for the Flash components of the recording. The user will be prompted to switch to Desktop app in Classic View for better experience. Old recordings (from version C10.x onwards) can be viewed and converted to MP4 using the Classic application. Learn more about recordings playback here.

Why mixed view in same room will no longer work after Adobe Connect 11.2 release in Feb 2021?

With this release, Adobe Connect will upgrade to a new audio technology which will not be retrofitted in the older Flash-based Classic View. Hence a given room can either work with new audio codecs in Standard View or old audio codecs in Classic View.

Where can I see the most recent hardware, network and Systems requirements for Adobe Connect to work?

Please visit the Technical Specifications and System Requirements page. Please note that older Flash-based browsers like IE11 are no longer supported since the Adobe Flash end of life on Dec 31, 2020. Users with Flash-based browsers will be asked to join via Adobe Connect native application.

How do you use a flash object as a link?

Is it possible to use a flash document embedded in HTML as a link?

I tried just wrapping the object element with an a like this:

In Internet Explorer, that made it show the location in the status bar like a link, but it doesn’t do anything.

I just have the .swf file, so I can’t add a click handler in ActionScript.

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Though the object really should respond to being wrapped in an a href tag, you could open the swf in vim and just throw in an _root.onPress=function(); or if it’s AS3, something like _root.addEventHandler(MouseEvent.PRESS, function (e:event) ); But if editing the swf is your route, you’d likely have more success with a tool for the purpose.

You can use transparent div with same height and width over that object. And let javascript open your url on click action on that div.

You could use Javascript to add a handler (added inline for brevity):

That should work, methinks.

This worked for me but the litle hand for clicking stuff doesn´t appear. The link works though

As an addition to dlamblin’s answer it is often best to use the clickTAG technique to open URLS from a flash movie.

More information can be found here:

The advantage of using the clickTAG technique is that you can set the URL to jump to in the HTML page.

This means that you can set the flash movie to link to different places without modifying the flash file (beyond adding the initial clickTAG code). You can use link tracking on the URL as well.

make link on SWF File to another HTML

I am having a problem with SWF File. I have a SWF File on my HTML page and i need to link it to another HTML i used but the anchor is not working. Any one can help me. How to link a SWF file. Thanks

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You can use SWFObject to add a flashvar like this:

That being said, this is assuming that within your Flash movie, it is coded such that the Flash movie is expecting that flashvar and using that link to the stipulated URL

In AS 2.0 it would be:

In AS 3.0 it would be:

I think I fixed it. Here is what I did:

made a clear png graphic the same size as the area you want your flash video to be in

make a new layer (div tag) over the flash video — you must be in standard view to edit layers — layers are like tables: they hold images,text, etc.(beware: if you are using tables, the div tag will float over the table when you resize your browser)

add the blank png into the new layer

link the blank png using the properties window in dreamweaver!

Within your object tag that holds the flash object add this line of code . This sets the background of your flash movie to transparent and allows the png layer to be placed above it. If you still need your flash movie to have a background, just create a colored box in your flash movie and use it as a background.

Add a Link Around an Embedded Flash File

I want to make it so that when I click anywhere on the embedded Flash element, it takes me to a destination URL.

Here is my current code, which does not produce the desired effect:

Right now it is making the space behind the .swf file clickable for the link, but the Flash element is not clickable.

If the right thing to do is to edit the .swf file somehow, please let me know that. I don’t consider myself a Flash developer, but are there any resources on where to get started or how to do something this basic with an existing .swf file?

Any suggestions are much appreciated!

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Update after more research:

This question has been asked before, and the best answer is that you have to create the link within flash.

Usually this is done dynamically by passing a parameter (conventionally named clickTAG) to the .swf to tell it where to link to.

In your case (since someone else provided your swf files) I can see 2 options:

1. Your .swf author may have already implemented the clickTAG method (you can ask them, or just try it out on the .swf to see if it works.)
2. You could make a flash wrapper file that implements clickTag, and have it load and display your .swf file. I know this seems like a hack, but I can’t see any other alternatives.

Hope this helps!

I’ve also seen something like this used [edit: but I can’t get it to work! Googling suggests that it’s not possible]