Flash player

Flash use has declined steeply to the point of irrelevance.

If you use Catalina and Safari, Firefox or Chrome you simply are not using Flash, period. All these browsers have dropped it.

From the point of view of a user, hou just don’t have any reason to miss it, and you may not even realize it’s gone.

Basically HTML 5, which debuted a few years ago, has provided support for video and interactivity in a way that rendered plugins like Flash, and others like Microsoft Silverlight, obsolete.

It depends on what you mean by "replaces".

The player itself? No and I hope no replacement is coming. As many others too.

Almost everything that was done with Flash is now replaced by other and better technologies.

The Flash model is finally abandoned. Good news!

In fact, just saying you need the Flash Player today is strange and looks suspect.

WD

Wilddrums wrote:

Ah Silverlight! The technology already obsolete when it was released.

WD

Nice characterization 😁

For a while, I had to suffer through it, as my internet and tv provider used it in their web player... fortunately, they got their act together and have a rather decent one using HTML 5.

Yes, I remember that. It affected many TV providers for a short period. I never understood the move. I just didn't make sense at that time. I remember I talked to someone - IT architect- involved. It seems this was a decision from management. He had no sound technical explanation.

WD

No. There is/will not be any more Flash content. On the web, HTML5 has replaced Flash for serving videos and other similar content.

I'm not sure what your question is?

Usually requests to download Flash Player are just attempts to install malware.

WD

This looks like a scam. Furthermore Flash is no longer supported in most major browsers and it will cease to be supported by Adobe by January 1, so just uninstall Flash and don’t install again.

Ah Silverlight! The technology already obsolete when it was released.

WD