To enable Flash for the site, click the lock icon at the left side of the Omnibox (address bar), click the “Flash” box, and then click “Allow.”Ĭhrome prompts you to reload the page-click “Reload.”Įven after you reload the page, any Flash content won’t be loaded-you have to click it to load it. When you visit a website that uses Flash, you see a “Plugin blocked” message at the right side of Chrome’s Omnibox or address bar. Chrome’s increasingly aggressive moves are supposed to encourage websites to move away from Flash while they still have plenty of time to do so.
If you use Flash, you still have nearly one and a half years until it’s gone. Mozilla is even more aggressive-it will remove Flash support entirely in early 2020. Adobe will also end support for Flash at the end of 2020. Instead, Chrome blocks Flash by default with the message “Flash was blocked on this page.” If you re-enable Flash in Chrome, you see a message that says, “Flash Player will no longer be supported after December 2020,” with a button to turn off Flash.Īs Google explains, when the ball drops on New Year’s Eve, 2020, the countdown will also be counting down to the end of Flash.
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