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Use Flash Player after 12 Jan 2021

I would like to use Flash Player to show web contents but since today (12 Jan 2021) Adobe is blocking it. Is there a way to use it? I've tried Firefox, Chrome, Safari and Brave browsers.
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77 votes
5 answers
126k views

How to block/disable all videos from automatically loading in Chrome?

Many sites now have auto-playing or automatically streaming videos: embedded in news pages, down side bars promoting other content, and some sites even have massive honking-great purely decorative ...
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34 votes
10 answers
52k views

How can I disable HTML5 content in popular browsers like Firefox and Chrome?

The bad thing about Flash video was that it required a third-party plugin to play the content. The good thing was I could select which content to play; using the click-to-play feature in Firefox and ...
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8 votes
2 answers
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Black screen issue playing videos in YouTube on Google Chrome

When I play a video in YouTube there is a black screen. I can use the interactions and hear the audio, I can't see the video. I've tried the following: There is enough space in my C drive for ...
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8 votes
1 answer
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Chrome youtube doesn't play/Twitch plays with no sound

I have OS X Yosemite, Chrome version 40.0.2214.115 (64-bit) When I open youtube video it loads but I can't play the video. I didn't download any extensions before youtube stopped working correctly (...
Thellimist's user avatar
56 votes
1 answer
29k views

Why is YouTube buffering/loading behavior so horrible in Chrome?

I have been suffering from this for months, possibly even years, and I still don't have the slightest clue about the cause. Let's say I open a video on YouTube in Chrome, like Jamie Hyneman's ...
Oliver Salzburg's user avatar
37 votes
13 answers
55k views

In Google Chrome on Linux, where is the flv if not in /tmp?

I like to keep videos because I like buffering them and then playing them back-to-back in my media player, I want to be able to stop/restart my browser without losing all the buffered video, and ...
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3 votes
1 answer
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Download streaming video with many xhr parts separated for audio and video

I want to download a streaming video. When I go to Chrome DevTools -> Network instead of a link to the mp4 video I find many links like ...hd4b.mp4/fragment-1-v1.m4s and other like ...a1.m4s for audio....
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3 votes
1 answer
963 views

How to stop onload play html5 video on websites?

Anyone know how stop automatic play on page load unwanted html5 videos? This is importnant for me because I use limited bandwith transfer, and that unwanted media eat my amount of limited transfer. ...
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2 votes
2 answers
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Chrome will not play certain flash videos

My chrome is set to use pepper flash (as is the default, I do not have any other flash player installed). I am encountering a strange error where some flash files do not play. As an example the two ...
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1 vote
1 answer
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Why have embedded YouTube videos stopped working in Google Chrome?

Yesterday I could watch videos at the Khan Academy site, today they don't work. Instead of the video I get a black screen with a link to "Get Adobe Flash player". Clicking the link takes me to a page ...
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3 answers
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Youtube videos play, not BBC, in Firefox. Chrome OK

Ubuntu 10.10, 32 bit. Firefox 3.6.14 Why don't BBC videos play in Firefox if Youtube has no problem? Moreover videos play fine in Chrome. Another strange thing: there seem to be two flash plugins in ...
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