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Flash Player Support

Category

Miscellaneous

Type

Feature removal

Status

Removed (Chrome 88)

Intent stage

Removed

Summary

Remove support for Flash Player from Chromium in alignment with Adobe's planned end of life on January 12th, 2021.

Motivation

Aligning with Adobe's announced plan(1) to end support. (1) - https://blog.adobe.com/en/publish/2017/07/25/adobe-flash-update.html#gs.nwd34x

Standards & signals

• Firefox: Positive
• Safari: Positive
• Web developers: No signals
• Tracking bug: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1064647

Explainers: https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/dev/flash-roadmap

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