

Meanwhile, if you’re feeling nostalgic, you can visit The Internet Archive to play old Flash games. However, there are better Flash alternatives, including HTML5, WebGL, and WebAssembly out there. Now that we are in 2021 and even Adobe doesn’t support Flash anymore and encourages everyone to uninstall it, there’s no reason to hold on to it unless there’s a niche use-case.

It provides superior video playback and advanced streaming media capabilities directly within your browser.

Over the past few years, companies have been dropping support for Flash due to its security vulnerabilities. Adobe Flash Player is a lightweight plug-in which enables you to play embedded videos and games within a website. Due to this, a separate standalone uninstaller is not available. Those looking for a way to manually remove Flash player can follow our guide to uninstall Adobe Flash Player from your computer. Flash Player ActiveX has always been embedded in IE and Edge browsers in Windows10 and is managed by Microsoft. If you don’t want to wait, you can grab the KB4577586 update right now from Microsoft’s Update Catalog. Microsoft notes that it will remove Flash when you update to Windows 10 21H1 or later. In addition, the company will include KB4577586 in the latest cumulative update for Windows 10 versions 15 in July 2021. “To help keep our customers secure, Microsoft will remove the Flash component from Windows through the KB4577586 ‘Update for Removal of Adobe Flash Player,'” wrote Microsoft in its blog post.Īccording to the blog post, Microsoft will include its “KB4577586 Update for Removal of Adobe Flash Player” in the Preview update for Windows 10, version 1809 and above, starting in June 2021.
