I understand you no longer support Adobe Flash player, do you have an alternative plugin for my games?
If you think Adobe Flash player is not an appropriate plugin, do you have a suggestion for an alternative? I've switched to using Google Chrome, but I'm told they will ban Adobe as well. I play "King" games such as Candy Crush, as well as others and I don't want to give up my games. I tried looking for an alternative a few months ago because Adobe crashed every day, but I went to the wrong site and downloaded a virus instead. Any suggestion you can give me would be great. Thank you for your time.
Leila Price
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Whatever you read that stated Mozilla no longer supports the Adobe Flash Player is incorrect. Mozilla still supports Flash but currently has all previous versions on a blocklist due to critical vulnerabilities. https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/blocked/
Mozilla only puts versions of Plugins (and also Extensions that are malware) that are of serious Security (critical) and also stability reasons. Unfortunately just about every Flash player version has been on blocklist since December due to proven exploits in wild in at time current versions.
The current plugin based versions of Flash player for Windows and Mac OSX are not on blocklist however Linux version is due to Adobe not having a update still which is unusual. https://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/distribution3.html
As you can see Adobe has been busy trying to fix exploits in their Flash player in last while. https://helpx.adobe.com/security.html#flashplayer
As for Flash alternatives that may or may not work or partially depending on OS and site used are Unity Web Player, GNU Gnash and Lightspark.
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Whatever you read that stated Mozilla no longer supports the Adobe Flash Player is incorrect. Mozilla still supports Flash but currently has all previous versions on a blocklist due to critical vulnerabilities. https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/blocked/
Mozilla only puts versions of Plugins (and also Extensions that are malware) that are of serious Security (critical) and also stability reasons. Unfortunately just about every Flash player version has been on blocklist since December due to proven exploits in wild in at time current versions.
The current plugin based versions of Flash player for Windows and Mac OSX are not on blocklist however Linux version is due to Adobe not having a update still which is unusual. https://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/distribution3.html
As you can see Adobe has been busy trying to fix exploits in their Flash player in last while. https://helpx.adobe.com/security.html#flashplayer
As for Flash alternatives that may or may not work or partially depending on OS and site used are Unity Web Player, GNU Gnash and Lightspark.
Modified by James
If your Flash didn't update already, you can get the version released yesterday (18.0.0.209) on this page:
https://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/distribution3.html
In the first table, look for the row for "plugin-based browsers" and you can use either the EXE or the MSI installer.
Regarding crashes with Flash, this is some standard guidance that addresses the most common issues with the Flash Player plugin. I'm sure you've seen some of it before, but just in case:
(1) If you have any recorders/downloaders that interact with Flash media make sure they are as up-to-date as possible, or disable them temporarily.
(2) Disable hardware acceleration in Flash
right-click the media and choose Settings, then the first mini-tab and uncheck the box to use hardware acceleration. More information in this support article from Adobe: http://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/kb/video-playback-issues.html#main_Solve_video_playback_issues
(3) Disable protected mode (Windows Vista and higher)
The protected mode feature of the Flash player plugin has security benefits, but seems to have compatibility issues on some systems. There is a hidden setting for this:
(A) In a new tab, type or paste about:config in the address bar and press Enter. Click the button promising to be careful.
(B) In the search box above the list, type or paste flash and pause while the list is filtered
(C) Double-click the dom.ipc.plugins.flash.disable-protected-mode preference to switch its value from false to true.
This might not take effect until all Flash has been unloaded for a few minutes, or you close Firefox.