
In the new tab to the right of “Flash,” click the drop-down menu and then Allow.Ī) Go back to the site and reload the page, and Flash should now be working.You can run a test here on Adobe’s website to test Flash is working in your browser. (Only applies if you had to click Site Settings in Step 2).Ī new tab will open.On some websites you won’t have this option, however if this is the case, click “Site Settings” and continue to step 3.Ī) If you were able to change the Flash section to “Allow” in the previous step, refresh the page and Flash should now be working.You can run a test here on Adobe’s website to test Flash is working in your browser. Where Flash is shown, click the drop-down menu and change it to “Allow” (as shown below).(On some sites not secured by SSL you will see a “i” in a circle instead or simply the words “not secure”.) Above the web page in Google Chrome, to the left of the web address, click the padlock as shown below.FIX: If you need to access a flash-based site, it’s still possible by following the below steps to enable flash player: Depending on your version of Chrome/Edge, the below may still work, however in later versions this will also be removed. UPDATE (Jan 2021): Flash is no longer supported by Adobe, and therefore it is advised to NOT continue using it. The following steps will allow you to enable flash player again. In light of this, Google & Microsoft have now blocked Flash by default in Chrome & Edge to spur website owners to update their site to a newer technology such as HTML5. Get Data Sheet, Fortune’s technology newsletter.Google Chrome & Microsoft Edge (Chromium Version) have Flash player built in as standard and auto updates however Adobe have announced end of life for Flash in December 2020. With the move to phase our Flash, Microsoft (MSFT) joins other big web companies like Google (GOOG), Apple (AAPL), and Mozilla, which have all announced similar initiatives. “In the coming months, we will actively monitor Flash consumption in Microsoft Edge and will gradually shorten the list of automatic exceptions.”

“To ease the transition to HTML5, these changes initially will not affect the most popular sites which rely on Flash today,” Microsoft Edge managers John Hazen and Crispin Cowan wrote.

But users will still be able to watch videos because HTML5 allows for them. For websites that support the HTML5 coding language, the Edge browser will not load any Flash content.

If people wish to see blocked content on websites that heavily use Flash, they can choose to do so via clicking on the appropriate button. Microsoft said this week that the next version of its Edge web browser, the replacement for its Internet Explorer browser, will automatically block Flash media from displaying when people visit websites that use the video player.
