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> Firefox no longer supports Adobe Flash. There is no setting available to re-enable Flash support.

It took half a decade, but it's finally done.

A ton of old web games and animations have suddenly just become inaccessible. I wonder if the flash player could be ported to webasm for legacy applications.

See https://github.com/ruffle-rs/ruffle and how the Internet Archive is using it:

https://blog.archive.org/2020/11/19/flash-animations-live-fo...

They're still accessible, just not from modern browsers. You can still use an alternative player like Flashpoint. Anyone still relying on Flash to power a web interface is probably SOL though.

I just came across a Flash video, on a Mozilla page on less…

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