Chris has personally written over 2,000 articles that have been read more than one billion times-and that's just here at How-To Geek. 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.Ĭhris Hoffman is the former Editor-in-Chief of How-To Geek. 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. Related: How to Use Adobe Flash in 2021 and Beyondįlash isn't completely gone-yet. Do you still need Flash content? Here are some tips for how you can still run Flash, in 2021 and into the future. As of January 2021, Flash is no longer officially supported.
