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Discontinued Adobe Flash Player was discontinued in December 2020. The alternatives below are active products you can switch to. All discontinued →

Alternatives to Adobe Flash Player

The plugin that powered the old web

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The plugin that powered the old web. Adobe Flash Player has been discontinued; the active alternatives listed here are maintained products you can switch to.

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Who it's for

Web users and developers in the 1996–2020 era who needed to view multimedia and interactive content built with Flash, before HTML5 became the standard.

What you get

A browser plugin/runtime that rendered Flash (.swf) files, enabling animations, video, games, and interactive applications embedded in web pages. It supported vector graphics, ActionScript scripting, and streaming audio/video. Adobe (originally Macromedia) distributed it as a free browser add-on for Windows, macOS, and Linux.

How it works

Users installed the plugin into their browser, which then automatically detected and ran embedded Flash content on web pages. Adobe ended support on December 31, 2020, and began blocking Flash content from running in January 2021.

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Ranked alternatives

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01
Arc

Reimagined browser UI with spaces and split view.

Proprietary macOSWindowsiOS
02

Chromium browser with built-in ad and tracker blocking.

MPL-2.0 WindowsmacOSLinuxiOS +1
03

Google's Chromium browser with the largest extension ecosystem.

Proprietary WindowsmacOSLinuxiOS +1
04

Privacy-default browser from DuckDuckGo.

Apache-2.0 macOSWindowsiOSAndroid
05

Microsoft's Chromium browser tied into Windows.

Proprietary WindowsmacOSLinuxiOS +1
06

Independent Gecko-engine browser from Mozilla.

MPL-2.0 WindowsmacOSLinuxiOS +1
07

Privacy-hardened Firefox fork without telemetry.

MPL-2.0 WindowsmacOSLinux
08

Chromium browser with built-in VPN and sidebar apps.

Proprietary WindowsmacOSLinuxiOS +1
09

WebKit browser supporting Chrome and Firefox extensions.

Proprietary macOSiOS
10

Firefox-based browser routing through the Tor network.

MPL-2.0 WindowsmacOSLinuxAndroid
11

Chromium stripped of Google integration.

BSD-3-Clause WindowsmacOSLinux
12

Power-user Chromium browser with deep customization.

Proprietary WindowsmacOSLinuxAndroid
13

Privacy-focused Firefox fork.

MPL-2.0 WindowsmacOSLinux
14

Firefox-based browser with vertical tabs and workspaces.

MPL-2.0 WindowsmacOSLinux

FAQ

Yes. Arc, Brave and Chrome have a free tier or are fully free. Free-tier limits in the comparison table are verified and dated.

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