How to unblock Adobe Flash Player [in Chrome, Edge, Firefox]

Adobe Flash Player End of Life (EOL)

Adobe stopped supporting Flash Player beginning New Year’s Eve , 2020. This was Flash Player’s EOL Date.

After the official EOL Date, Adobe nolonger issues Flash Player updates or important security patches. this is often why Adobe strongly recommends to users to uninstal Flash Player.

Fewer sites today use Flash to play content and after this EOL many other sites will drop Flash Player.

In addition, Adobe blocked all Flash content from running in Flash Player beginning January 12, 2021. this is often why major browser vendors, like Chrome, Edge, and Firefox, disabled Flash Player from running. Flash content doesn’t play automatically in these major websites because it wont to before.

If you are doing not uninstall flash player, you’ll still use it to observe Flash content. However, you want to unblock Flash Player first.

How to unblock Adobe Flash Player

Use the methods described here to unblock Flash Player in several browsers.

Note that while Adobe Flash is blocked on major browsers like Edge, Chrome, and Firefox, Opera still supports the Flash plugin and it doesn’t cause any problems of the type . So, you’ll switching to if you would like to observe any Flash content.

How to unblock Adobe Flash Player in Chrome?

Chrome’s built-in Flash player still remains and plays Flash content but you’ve got to “Allow” it first.

Before you start to enable Flash Player in Chrome, you’ll check if your version of Flash player in Chrome to understand if it can run.

Here’s the way to enable Flash Player in Chrome:

1. Type chrome://components into the address bar.
2. If you have Adobe Flash Player installed, you may still be able to play Flash content, but it’ll need to be enabled first.
3. Open Google Chrome Menu: click on vertically aligned ellipsis ⋮. It’s in the top-right corner of the window. A drop-down menu will appear.
4. Click on Settings. Chrome settings page will open in a new tab.
   
5. Scroll to the bottom of the page and click Advanced.
6. Click Contents settings.
   
7. Select Flash to open the options shown below.
   • Alternatively, you can search content settings on the search bar and then select Flash.
8. Now, unblock Adobe Flash content by switching Block sites from running Flash to Ask first (recommended).
9. You can also add websites to the Allow list to enable Adobe Flash to always run on them. To do that,
   1. Click Add,
   2. Input a website URL,
   3. Press the Add button.

How to unblock Adobe Flash Player on Microsoft Edge

In order to unblock Flash content on Edge, you need to select either the Always allow or Allow once option. Here’s how:

1. Click horizontally aligned ellipsis. It’s in the top-right corner of the window. A drop-down menu will appear.
2. Click on Settings and it opens the setting page in a new tab.
3. Click on Site Permissions from the left navigation pane, and click on Adobe Flash.
4. To unblock Flash in Edge, toggle the Block sites from running a Flash button to Ask first.

How to unblock Adobe Flash Player on Firefox

Mozilla readjusted Firefox’s default Flash configuration to Ask to Activate in 2017. After this update, the browser displays an icon in place of the Flash multimedia when you open a page.

If Adobe Flash content is blocked in Firefox, you can unblock it on all websites by doing the following:

1. Press the Open menu button at the top right of Firefox’s window.
2. Click Add-ons to open the tab in the shot directly below.
3. Select Plug-ins to open the plug-in list.
4. Select Always Activate on Flash‘s drop-down menu.
   

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