Chrome is ending support for Adobe Flash Player

[Mobis]

CHROME

Saying goodbye to Flash in Chrome

 

Anthony Laforge

Product Manager, Google ChromePublished Jul 25, 2017

 

Today, Adobe announced its plans to stop supporting Flash at the end of 2020.

For 20 years, Flash has helped shape the way that you play games, watch videos and run applications on the web. But over the last few years, Flash has become less common. Three years ago, 80 percent of desktop Chrome users visited a site with Flash each day. Today usage is only 17 percent and continues to decline.

This trend reveals that sites are migrating to open web technologies, which are faster and more power-efficient than Flash. They’re also more secure, so you can be safer while shopping, banking, or reading sensitive documents. They also work on both mobile and desktop, so you can visit your favorite site anywhere.

These open web technologies became the default experience for Chrome late last year when sites started needing to ask your permission to ru...

If you regularly visit a site that uses Flash today, you may be wondering how this affects you. If the site migrates to open web standards, you shouldn’t notice much difference except that you'll no longer see prompts to run Flash on that site. If the site continues to use Flash, and you give the site permission to run Flash, it will work through the end of 2020.

It’s taken a lot of close work with Adobe, other browsers, and major publishers to make sure the web is ready to be Flash-free. We’re supportive of Adobe’s announcement today, and we look forward to working with everyone to make the web even better.

Can the Arlo website upgrade please.

[BobGauke]

I tried that "fix" and it worked well however I am finding that each time I log in to myarlo account and try live stream I have to apply this fix... somehow it is not saved. This is an annoyance but not the end of the world.

[myersw]

With the horrible firmware support Netgear is providing the router side of the house I can only hope the Arlo side is better managed. If not they need to get busy with phasing flash out and getting html5 support implemented. Phase out date will be here before we know it.  Was surprised when I installed the Arlo cameras that flash was needed. I had thought folks had moved away from that years ago. At least for me they are the only reason I still need flash. 

[LincsDave]

Hi had same problem & fix not work for me on Edge or Firefox - no extra icons. Went to other browser BRAVE & following fix worked for me:

Click on padlock in address bar;

click on settings cog from drop down. You now get a whole page of settings; Look for Flash setting on right handside & reset permission to "allow".

Return to Arlo site YOU WILL NEED TO REFRESH PAGE to ALLOW Flash to work.

Click back on LIVE on camera link - hope this also works for you!

If you go back to the padlock in address bar after completing this change you will see the Allow Flash is now added at that point rather than going into all settings window.

Good luck folks.

[LincsDave]

Hi had same problem & fix not work for me on Edge or Firefox - no extra icons. Went to other browser BRAVE & following fix worked for me:
Click on padlock in address bar;
click on settings cog from drop down. You now get a whole page of settings; Look for Flash setting on right handside & reset permission to "allow".
Return to Arlo site YOU WILL NEED TO REFRESH PAGE to ALLOW Flash to work.
Click back on LIVE on camera link - hope this also works for you!
If you go back to the padlock in address bar after completing this change you will see the Allow Flash is now added at that point rather than going into all settings window.
Good luck folks.

[danwriter]

The focus has been on the business side since the spin off. Typical. Users will need to hold the C suite to account until they've weaned off of flash. 

[20UK]

SAFARI USERS

When you've updated Flash - go to VIEW, and down the menu you'll find 'RELOAD WITH PLUGINS' . . . . .

[mamarcac]

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@danwriter wrote:

The focus has been on the business side since the spin off. Typical. Users will need to hold the C suite to account until they've weaned off of flash. 

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Yep, plus the fact that the customers have to push for Arlo to get off of Flash is just sad. There are so many other things we should be worried about getting fixed, but we need to ask for this too apparently.

[bzak]

Closing the Flash update dialog DOES NOT WORK! HELP!

[bzak]

Worthless equipment. Website is completely hosed, update flash player errors are not fixed. Tried closing the update prompt, no good, tried updating Flash, no good. Tried Chrome browser vs. Firefox, no good. Arlo is no longer useful to us after investring over $1,000.00 in cameras. Run, don't walk away from their products.

[StephenB]

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@bzak wrote:

Closing the Flash update dialog DOES NOT WORK! HELP!

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What browser are you using?

[bzak]

Firefox. Finally figured it out, need to click "manage plug in" dialog and allow Flash. Can't Flash be eliminated?

[johnlib]

Thanks for the solution.  Icon on address bar says Manage Plug-In Use when you put mouse over it.  Click and allow.      

[murphykj]

Worked.  Thank you!  Have been trying to figure this out for a few days now. 

[gellis]

The solution of clicking on the adobe flash icon in the top left between the (i) and (lock) solved the problem. Click on the icon and allow adobe to open, then go back to your device and click on (Live). Problem solved.

[ThenC]

I got a message stating that Flash Player will no longer be supported as of Dec 2020. Adobe is mothballing it because of competition and security issues. Does anyone know what Arlo is doing about that?

[TomMac]

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@ThenC wrote:

I got a message stating that Flash Player will no longer be supported as of Dec 2020. Adobe is mothballing it because of competition and security issues. Does anyone know what Arlo is doing about that?

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Yes... multi threads on this if you want to look... But quick answer is they are working on it and it will be done before any deadlines from flash

[Dood]

Does Arlo have a plan to deal with the end of Adobe Flash? 

I see several threads but no answers to this question. Will it be html5? When will the Flash substitute be switched on? (Why hasn't already happened?)

[TomMac]

Yes they have a plan, prob HTML5, but not sure, and they only tell us it will be done before flash is eliminated

[roghitch]

What is your plan to replace Flash?  Support is rapidly ending on most browsers.  Disappointing for new products to require the use of an antiquated viewer.

[altjas70]

What is the expected timeline for the move to HTML5??  Product is difficult to use with this glitch.

[wimmpyiii]

I dont understand the lack of urgancy. Chrome is now dropping all flash support soon, alot sooner then 2020. By 2020 flash will be dinosaur. It is already a complete security catastrophe. Just switch now to html5. Stop building on a dieing animal. Its making arlo look bad if not for anything else.

[StephenB]

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@wimmpyiii wrote:

 Chrome is now dropping all flash support soon, a lot sooner then 2020.

Everything I've seen on this says they will drop it in Dec 2020.  Do you have a source that you can post here that supports your information?

[lars7]

How a company that purports to have "security" cameras STILL hasn't migrated their UX from Flash in late 2019 is embarrassing. Very poor communication from the company on this and in the meantime all of us Chrome users have to click 10 times and log in a few times in order to pull up the basic camera feed. I know I'm repeating what's been said in the thread, so I guess I'll just ask - how else can we put heat on them? 

[viper111]

well said

[danwriter]

"...how else can we put heat on them?"

Cut and paste this thread and related ones and send them to the financial analysts at the brokerages that follow Arlo and the industry, such as Raymond James analyst Adam Tindle, quoted here (and not very positively):

https://finance.yahoo.com/m/c9590dd9-2285-3354-9f68-3aeaa9c207f6/arlo-stock-tanks-after.html