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By 2021, Adobe had started blocking flash content, a move that encouraged developers to remove Flash Player from their browsers.Īdobe argued that standards like HTML5 had rendered Adobe Flash Player obsolete. You couldn’t even download the program from their website because the company had eliminated the download page from their platform. But then figures like Steve Jobs criticized the software for the many weaknesses and security vulnerabilities experts had discovered over the years.īy 2020, Adobe had discontinued support for Flash Player. While Flash Player could exist independently, it was commonly integrated into web browsers as a plug-in.įor a time, Adobe Flash Player was seemingly unstoppable, present on hundreds of millions of computers around the globe. Interest in the program persisted because it could execute rich internet applications. When Macromedia bought Future Wave, the company behind Future Splash Player, it changed the name to ‘ Macromedia Flash Player.’ A decade later, Adobe bought Macromedia, and ‘Macromedia Flash Player’ became ‘Flash Player.’ Back then, people called it ‘Future Splash Player.’

probably on other browsers (other than Firefox).It was compatible with every significant graphical and audio format and technology, which is why the software was so widespread. Works fairly well only in Opera 10.63 it seems. Any site other than and with F­lash videos.This behavior particularly started when Firefox introduced Its plugin separation feature which supposedly closes the plugin instead of crashing the whole browser (ironically this seems reversed now in Wine.), ­so this may be a Firefox problem! This slows downs the install process so that it works correctly for some reason.­įirefox­ will crash when doing anything in Flash for some reason. Use whatever your installer filename is called in the above command. ­Installer works when using Sultan Tezadov's suggested install method: ­ WINEDEBUG=+all wine install_flash_player.exe­ ­­­Playing videos on YouT­ube and in newest stable Opera only.­