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I've been expanding this article over the past few months and would like to know what's missing. I added 2 more project templates, Software and Free software (since Flash Player is free, though not open source). I've rated it "Mid" class under Software, since Flash Player was the first example on the Mid-class of the project's importance scale. I've also cleared the issues with the Criticism section and expanded the same section, and I've tried to be as unbaised as possible. Thanks for any help. -- Tom Jenkins (reply) 15:30, 12 November 2012 (UTC)
In the first sentence: "software for viewing multimedia, executing rich Internet applications, and streaming video and audio, content created on the Adobe Flash platform." What does this mean? Can it only be used to view, execute and stream content created on the Adobe Flash platform? Or can it view and execute content created on other platforms, but stream only content created on the Adobe Flash platform? Or can it also be used for streaming video and audio content created on other platforms? Nurg ( talk) 04:19, 5 July 2014 (UTC)
Is there a source which has no COI in providing the penetration numbers of Flash Player? 87.78.174.19 ( talk) 06:49, 20 August 2014 (UTC)
One thing I like about this article is that it usually has the date of the latest update of Flash Player. There was an update release today (Feb 5 2015) but when I looked at the article, the article hadn't been updated to match. I did find the release notes on Adobe's site. Oaklandguy ( talk) 03:13, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
Someone did it! Thank you! Oaklandguy ( talk) 03:14, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
There appears to be a problem with the Adobe Flash Player page on Wikipedia, namely that on the right hand side of the page, in the "Stable release" section, we currently have:
Windows, OS X: {{LStp://adobe.com/software/flash/about Newest Adobe Flash Player versions] Release date for older versions Direct download links for all supported versions and OS
followed by a /noinclude end tag.
I don't appear to be able to edit this part of the page in order to fix the problem. If someone else could do this I would be very grateful! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gepree ( talk • contribs) 09:13, 11 September 2015 (UTC)
The article's issue reappeared when I checked today (Apr 22, 2016) - there was a release on April 21. Maybe this issue is related to the reason for the release, which relates to Macs. Oaklandguy ( talk) 19:41, 22 April 2016 (UTC)
The release history lists a lot of improvements made in the authoring environment, but many of these features aren't actually reflected in the player. Color tweening for example is handled only in the authoring environment, AFAIK, and dumps the tweened results to the SWF file. You can verify by importing an SWF file into an FLA.
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There's a mix of format for dates (day month year and month day, year,), would be nice if someone made them consistent one way or another. 09:44, 17 November 2016 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.68.88.34 ( talk)
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does anyone know anything about the product e.o.l.,and the future direction of these types of services?
Pga1965 ( talk) 12:55, 18 October 2019 (UTC)
I found the following document on Adobe's website:
Adobe Flash Player EOL General Information Page
Maybe the Wikipedia article refers to this somewhere; but if not, it should. I'm not enough of an expert to edit the article to include this reference, but I hope someone will. I have had Flash Player installed. Today, Adobe sent me a notice that referred to their document, but the link within that notice didn't work. Adobe's notice has an Uninstall button, with the description, "If you do not need to access Flash content, we recommend that you remove Flash Player from your system by clicking the 'Uninstall' button below." I will do exactly that after I finish this edit.
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Should it be said that Pale Moon (web browser) has vowed to support NPAPI plugins including Flash beyond 2020? The current article says which OSs support it and which browsers won't but not which browsers will. -- Error ( talk) 00:00, 9 December 2020 (UTC)
In this Microsoft article: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/announcements/update-adobe-flash-support, it says 'Here's what you can expect for each Microsoft browser:'possibly referring to Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer. Also, it only specified that Flash would be removed from the new Microsoft Edge (the one with the Chromium build). Just put this here in case anyone wanted to edit using this information. Atimes3 ( talk) 16:15, 2 October 2020 (UTC)
This page should not be speedily deleted because... flash is an enormous part of internet history — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.169.139.68 ( talk) 02:38, 31 December 2020 (UTC)
Everything is about Flash’s discontinuation today. Since it’s outdated(and Adobe is blocking flash content from running Jan 12), I suggest changing everything to past tense. Opinions?
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So, I have checked several software articles and there is some disagreement on how to handle this. For the past tense, Windows Movie Maker uses the "... is a discontinued software ..." form for example, and Netscape Navigator uses "... was a proprietary web ...". In that front, no comment. Moreover, other software articles do use "a" regardless of its uncountability. It is clearly helpful that singular indefinite pronouns are used for clarity, despite that the formal grammar rules appear to contradict this. Needless to say, "Flash is discontinued software" doesn't really read well. - 49.147.244.20 ( talk) 02:12, 1 January 2021 (UTC)
The article reads:
It was discontinued on December 31, 2020, its download page disappeared on January 2, 2021, and a built-in time bomb from versions newer than 32.0.0.371 will display a static icon with an information page link starting on January 12, 2021.
I don't see any sources, and this seems like it was taken from somewhere. There is past tense from future dates. Also, why would the download page disappear after it is discontinued? And what does it mean by built-in time bomb? I think that this is vandalism.
CoolSwitch4212 ( talk) 15:42, 6 January 2021 (UTC)
The person adding the text was trying to be helpful. I too was trying to be helpful, but in a clumsy way. So I apologize for not bringing my concerns here before attempting to add a note to the main article.
The software is no longer being supported and Adobe is FIRMLY requesting that it be removed from users devices. Details about Adobe's announcement are here: https://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/end-of-life.html
At this point Wikipedia editors more familiar than Me with how to present the Flash story could rewrite this article to reflect the historical value that Flash and the Flash Player provided for these many years. I'm sentimental. So it's kind of sad to see the end of Flash. But it does deserve a farewell here on Wikipedia that takes into account Adobe's position as well as that of users. I'll look to find information elsewhere that may be useful. Stan Pokras SuperStan100 ( talk) 00:54, 5 July 2021 (UTC)
We all know that Microsoft Update KB4577586 removed Adobe Flash from the Windows operating system (mostly Windows 8.1 & Windows 10), and it's possible that Windows 11 removed the built-in Adobe Flash Player from the included Windows Components. But does Microsft Update KB4577586 also removes the Mainland Chinese version of Adobe Flash Player from Windows 8.1 and Windows 10? So far, as far as I know, nobody has seemed to tested this with the Chinese versions of Windows 8.1 & Windows 10. — Preceding unsigned comment added by DeveloperPudú ( talk • contribs) 00:01, 25 October 2021 (UTC)
This page is not unambiguously promotional, because... (your reason here)
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I've been expanding this article over the past few months and would like to know what's missing. I added 2 more project templates, Software and Free software (since Flash Player is free, though not open source). I've rated it "Mid" class under Software, since Flash Player was the first example on the Mid-class of the project's importance scale. I've also cleared the issues with the Criticism section and expanded the same section, and I've tried to be as unbaised as possible. Thanks for any help. -- Tom Jenkins (reply) 15:30, 12 November 2012 (UTC)
In the first sentence: "software for viewing multimedia, executing rich Internet applications, and streaming video and audio, content created on the Adobe Flash platform." What does this mean? Can it only be used to view, execute and stream content created on the Adobe Flash platform? Or can it view and execute content created on other platforms, but stream only content created on the Adobe Flash platform? Or can it also be used for streaming video and audio content created on other platforms? Nurg ( talk) 04:19, 5 July 2014 (UTC)
Is there a source which has no COI in providing the penetration numbers of Flash Player? 87.78.174.19 ( talk) 06:49, 20 August 2014 (UTC)
One thing I like about this article is that it usually has the date of the latest update of Flash Player. There was an update release today (Feb 5 2015) but when I looked at the article, the article hadn't been updated to match. I did find the release notes on Adobe's site. Oaklandguy ( talk) 03:13, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
Someone did it! Thank you! Oaklandguy ( talk) 03:14, 6 February 2015 (UTC)
There appears to be a problem with the Adobe Flash Player page on Wikipedia, namely that on the right hand side of the page, in the "Stable release" section, we currently have:
Windows, OS X: {{LStp://adobe.com/software/flash/about Newest Adobe Flash Player versions] Release date for older versions Direct download links for all supported versions and OS
followed by a /noinclude end tag.
I don't appear to be able to edit this part of the page in order to fix the problem. If someone else could do this I would be very grateful! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gepree ( talk • contribs) 09:13, 11 September 2015 (UTC)
The article's issue reappeared when I checked today (Apr 22, 2016) - there was a release on April 21. Maybe this issue is related to the reason for the release, which relates to Macs. Oaklandguy ( talk) 19:41, 22 April 2016 (UTC)
The release history lists a lot of improvements made in the authoring environment, but many of these features aren't actually reflected in the player. Color tweening for example is handled only in the authoring environment, AFAIK, and dumps the tweened results to the SWF file. You can verify by importing an SWF file into an FLA.
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There's a mix of format for dates (day month year and month day, year,), would be nice if someone made them consistent one way or another. 09:44, 17 November 2016 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.68.88.34 ( talk)
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does anyone know anything about the product e.o.l.,and the future direction of these types of services?
Pga1965 ( talk) 12:55, 18 October 2019 (UTC)
I found the following document on Adobe's website:
Adobe Flash Player EOL General Information Page
Maybe the Wikipedia article refers to this somewhere; but if not, it should. I'm not enough of an expert to edit the article to include this reference, but I hope someone will. I have had Flash Player installed. Today, Adobe sent me a notice that referred to their document, but the link within that notice didn't work. Adobe's notice has an Uninstall button, with the description, "If you do not need to access Flash content, we recommend that you remove Flash Player from your system by clicking the 'Uninstall' button below." I will do exactly that after I finish this edit.
Oaklandguy (
talk) 22:04, 11 November 2020 (UTC)
Should it be said that Pale Moon (web browser) has vowed to support NPAPI plugins including Flash beyond 2020? The current article says which OSs support it and which browsers won't but not which browsers will. -- Error ( talk) 00:00, 9 December 2020 (UTC)
In this Microsoft article: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/announcements/update-adobe-flash-support, it says 'Here's what you can expect for each Microsoft browser:'possibly referring to Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer. Also, it only specified that Flash would be removed from the new Microsoft Edge (the one with the Chromium build). Just put this here in case anyone wanted to edit using this information. Atimes3 ( talk) 16:15, 2 October 2020 (UTC)
This page should not be speedily deleted because... flash is an enormous part of internet history — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.169.139.68 ( talk) 02:38, 31 December 2020 (UTC)
Everything is about Flash’s discontinuation today. Since it’s outdated(and Adobe is blocking flash content from running Jan 12), I suggest changing everything to past tense. Opinions?
--
Iovecodeabc (
talk) 22:18, 31 December 2020 (UTC)
So, I have checked several software articles and there is some disagreement on how to handle this. For the past tense, Windows Movie Maker uses the "... is a discontinued software ..." form for example, and Netscape Navigator uses "... was a proprietary web ...". In that front, no comment. Moreover, other software articles do use "a" regardless of its uncountability. It is clearly helpful that singular indefinite pronouns are used for clarity, despite that the formal grammar rules appear to contradict this. Needless to say, "Flash is discontinued software" doesn't really read well. - 49.147.244.20 ( talk) 02:12, 1 January 2021 (UTC)
The article reads:
It was discontinued on December 31, 2020, its download page disappeared on January 2, 2021, and a built-in time bomb from versions newer than 32.0.0.371 will display a static icon with an information page link starting on January 12, 2021.
I don't see any sources, and this seems like it was taken from somewhere. There is past tense from future dates. Also, why would the download page disappear after it is discontinued? And what does it mean by built-in time bomb? I think that this is vandalism.
CoolSwitch4212 ( talk) 15:42, 6 January 2021 (UTC)
The person adding the text was trying to be helpful. I too was trying to be helpful, but in a clumsy way. So I apologize for not bringing my concerns here before attempting to add a note to the main article.
The software is no longer being supported and Adobe is FIRMLY requesting that it be removed from users devices. Details about Adobe's announcement are here: https://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/end-of-life.html
At this point Wikipedia editors more familiar than Me with how to present the Flash story could rewrite this article to reflect the historical value that Flash and the Flash Player provided for these many years. I'm sentimental. So it's kind of sad to see the end of Flash. But it does deserve a farewell here on Wikipedia that takes into account Adobe's position as well as that of users. I'll look to find information elsewhere that may be useful. Stan Pokras SuperStan100 ( talk) 00:54, 5 July 2021 (UTC)
We all know that Microsoft Update KB4577586 removed Adobe Flash from the Windows operating system (mostly Windows 8.1 & Windows 10), and it's possible that Windows 11 removed the built-in Adobe Flash Player from the included Windows Components. But does Microsft Update KB4577586 also removes the Mainland Chinese version of Adobe Flash Player from Windows 8.1 and Windows 10? So far, as far as I know, nobody has seemed to tested this with the Chinese versions of Windows 8.1 & Windows 10. — Preceding unsigned comment added by DeveloperPudú ( talk • contribs) 00:01, 25 October 2021 (UTC)
This page is not unambiguously promotional, because... (your reason here)