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Major browsers can't ditch Flash until Adobe EOLs it. Too many legacy enterprise apps still rely on it, even though they are likely being frantically reimplemen

Major browsers can't ditch Flash until Adobe EOLs it. Too many legacy enterprise apps still rely on it, even though they are likely being frantically reimplemented this month. I'm in that boat.

jandrese 6y ago
Depreciation in Firefox isn't going to cause that much corporate pressure to finally rewrite those ancient flash apps. When Internet Explorer drops it then they have a problem.
- paulie_a 6y ago
  According to adobe the plugin will stop loading content in January regardless of the browser
  - chrisseaton 6y ago
    If IE and Windows are running the extension then I guess IE can tell it the date is anything it wants?
    - paulie_a 6y ago
      Hopefully adobe was smart enough to prevent that
    - jandrese 6y ago
      Microsoft seems to have mostly abandoned IE so hopefully it won't come to that.
input_sh 6y ago
> Major browsers can't ditch Flash until Adobe EOLs it. Adobe announced EOL a long time ago. January 12th is the day it will stop working, regardless of browser support.
- pbhjpbhj 6y ago
  A website my kids school use for maths advises it will stop worrying except for with Google Chrome, so I assume Google is keeping their flash implementation, and so flash will keep working.
  - bhandziuk 6y ago
    My wife's school is in the same boat except they've been told they are SOL and they need to find replacements.
  - duskwuff 6y ago
    That web site is wrong. The Flash player in Chrome will stop working on January 1st, and it will be removed from the browser entirely in an update early next year. https://www.chromium.org/flash-roadmap https://www.chromium.org/flash-roadmap https://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/end-of-life.html https://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/end-of-life.html
cpeterso 6y ago
Enterprises that still rely on legacy Flash apps can pay Adobe partner Harman for a custom standalone Flash host application: https://services.harman.com/partners/adobe https://services.harman.com/partners/adobe Adobe, Mozilla, Google, Microsoft, and Apple simultaneously announced back in 2017 that Flash would no longer be supported after 2020: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Plugins/Roadmap#See_Also https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Plugins/Roadmap#See...

Major browsers can't ditch Flash until Adobe EOLs it. Too many legacy enterprise apps still rely on it, even though they are likely being frantically reimplemented this month. I'm in that boat.

jandrese 6y ago

Depreciation in Firefox isn't going to cause that much corporate pressure to finally rewrite those ancient flash apps. When Internet Explorer drops it then they have a problem.

paulie_a 6y ago
According to adobe the plugin will stop loading content in January regardless of the browser
- chrisseaton 6y ago
  If IE and Windows are running the extension then I guess IE can tell it the date is anything it wants?
  - paulie_a 6y ago
    Hopefully adobe was smart enough to prevent that
  - jandrese 6y ago
    Microsoft seems to have mostly abandoned IE so hopefully it won't come to that.

input_sh 6y ago

> Major browsers can't ditch Flash until Adobe EOLs it. Adobe announced EOL a long time ago. January 12th is the day it will stop working, regardless of browser support.

pbhjpbhj 6y ago
A website my kids school use for maths advises it will stop worrying except for with Google Chrome, so I assume Google is keeping their flash implementation, and so flash will keep working.
- bhandziuk 6y ago
  My wife's school is in the same boat except they've been told they are SOL and they need to find replacements.
- duskwuff 6y ago
  That web site is wrong. The Flash player in Chrome will stop working on January 1st, and it will be removed from the browser entirely in an update early next year. https://www.chromium.org/flash-roadmap https://www.chromium.org/flash-roadmap https://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/end-of-life.html https://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/end-of-life.html

cpeterso 6y ago

Enterprises that still rely on legacy Flash apps can pay Adobe partner Harman for a custom standalone Flash host application: https://services.harman.com/partners/adobe https://services.harman.com/partners/adobe Adobe, Mozilla, Google, Microsoft, and Apple simultaneously announced back in 2017 that Flash would no longer be supported after 2020: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Plugins/Roadmap#See_Also https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Plugins/Roadmap#See...