Desinstalar adobe flash player

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That is why little by little its use has been falling in favor of HTML5, among others, until finally Adobe announced its definitive end. For all these reasons, there are fewer and fewer websites that use Flash, since practically all of them have abandoned its use. And it should be noted that since December 31, 2020, Adobe no longer sends Flash Player updates, and does not allow downloading from scratch, so the most advisable thing to do is to absolutely update it.

“Since Adobe no longer supports Flash Player after December 31, 2020, it has been blocked from running Flash content in Flash Player since January 12, 2021, Adobe strongly recommends that all users uninstall Flash Player immediately to help protect their systems.”

It also warns us that some users may still see reminders to uninstall Adobe Flash Player from their system, as not only are we not going to be able to download it, but it’s also not possible to update it if we have it installed. Not even through the Windows Update feature of Windows 10 we will not be able to update it, once it has been left without official support.

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Adobe has begun to issue alerts on the use of Flash Player in Windows recommending the uninstallation of this multimedia player and plug-in that has been used for decades to add multimedia content to the Web and the necessary advertising that has been the livelihood of millions of pages.

That’s the thing about adopting closed formats that end up compromising an entire industry, in this case the entire Web, no less. Let’s hope that the industry has learned its lesson and the commitment to open standards (much easier to support, improve and secure in a communal way, or to change to another standard if necessary) is the norm to follow.

All the technology companies have launched migration programs to other more secure, modern and open formats such as HTML5. Microsoft detailed in September its plans to definitively eliminate Flash Player from all versions of Windows. Something that is done very simply, but manually:

Microsoft will offer in the future this update through Windows Update and in a general way for all users, but for the moment you have to perform the process manually.  It should be noted that this update only removes the internal version of Flash Player installed on Windows systems.

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Although it may not seem like it, today is an important day for the Internet because it is the first day that all web content compatible with Adobe Flash is no longer operational. It doesn’t work. It’s dead. After a quarter century of history, the old web page content player has been deactivated and browsers like Chrome, Edge or Safari no longer take any notice of them. So it has officially become a dead technology.

And there was no shortage of content developed around this plugin. Banners of all kinds, flash games (as they were called in the early history of the Internet) or entire pages already outdated and abandoned that had been programmed with what in the 90s seemed to many the technology of the future. Or don’t you remember the crashes and restarts caused by the player all the time?

So, it’s time to delete the plugin you have installed on your computer, since you will not use it again because the new browsers already block by default the loading of any of these contents. To do this, you simply have to go to the “Control Panel” of Windows 10 and select the option “uninstall application”.

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Adobe Flash is the technology that allows the reproduction of Flash multimedia elements, mainly found on Web sites. However, the use of this format is being discontinued, among many other reasons, because it is a weak point used quite frequently to attack the computers of users who have Adobe Flash installed. Due to the security failure of this technology, most of the Internet industry has decided to modify the format used in their Web sites.

To deactivate or remove this plug-in you only have to type chrome://plugins/ in the URL box of your browser. After pressing the Enter key you will be taken to a page with several options.

Look for Adobe Flash Player among the options displayed and just below it you will find the Disable option. Click on this option to disable the Adobe Flash Player plug-in and there will no longer be the possibility of vulnerability but you will not be able to access the few Flash elements that are displayed on some Web sites.

Eduardo José Cazorla