Flash v32.0.0.171 includes two security patches, one important and one critical. Be sure to update! (Only 8.5 months until the Burial Party! Shovels will be provided).
Read the gory details here:
https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb19-19.html
correct for the Pepper Player link: https://fpdownload.adobe.com/get/flashplayer/pdc/32.0.0.330/install_flash_player_osx_ppapi.dmg
Flash Player: https://fpdownload.adobe.com/get/flashplayer/pdc/32.0.0.330/install_flash_player_osx.dmg
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Version 32.0.0.330
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W@lter
11 February 2020
THX - I could never get PPAPI but it always turned out to be the NPAPI version.
The download is regular Adobe Flash, not the Pepper Flash Player. And it is the same version similarly misidentified a few days or a week ago, so it is not a fresh update.
Flash v32.0.0.171 includes two security patches, one important and one critical. Be sure to update! (Only 8.5 months until the Burial Party! Shovels will be provided).
Read the gory details here:
https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb19-19.html
Why on God's Earth would anyone install anything to do with Adobe Flash? There are so many security issues arising from poor/sloppy coding that Adobe has put more energy into fixing its original garbage than it did into the original product. Yes, some legacy sites require Flash but the trade off is decreased security on your Mac. Install/use at your own risk! I deleted all vestiges of Flash a long time ago and am almost weaned off Adobe software from my multiple macs. Zero stars if I could for Adobe attention to detail.
v32.0.0.101 is now available.
WARNING: CVE-2018-15982, an Adobe Flash exploit, is active In-The-Wild! Update to Flash v32.0.0.101 NOW!
Happiness is: Adobe Flash dead forever at the end of 2019. Party at my place!
Although Adobe advertises the system requirements for Flash 31.0.0.108 as "Mac OS X v10.10 or later," the installer completes normally when executed on a system running OS X 10.7.5 and Adobe's about page behaves normally and indicates that version 31.0.0.108 is installed.
Was finally able to uninstall Flash and AIR from the mac today. The sites I needed it for finally have updated to not need flash. If I still need flash I have chrome installed for a self contained version.
This download appears to be the PPAPI version instead of NPAPI. It's at the end of the filename.
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Version 29.0.0.171
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BryanatMU
10 May 2018
Thanks for the note. We have moved the PPAPI version to the related links section.
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Derekcurrie
07 December 2018
This page IS the PPAPI version page! Therefore, you're SUPPOSED to get the PPAPI version when you use this page's download link! Go find the NPAPI Flash page elsewhere on MU.
The only reason I still keep a copy of Flash player installed are for the media management sites such as VUDU, and other vendors that haven't updated their sites.
The issue with many of these sites is, They require flash to watch content from a computer. Buying or renting content can be done without flash, and of course viewing content on a streaming player such as ROKU / Apple TV, or even tablet or phone (iPad, iPhone, etc) doesn't require flash. Most of the sites i needed flash for have changed over now. So it's just as needed at this point.
Seeing as MacUpdate is frequently LATE offering Flash updates, keep this in mind:
-> Adobe provides updates for all its software on the Second Tuesday of the month (just like Microsoft). Because Flash is so poorly coded, Adobe frequently provides interim updates as well during any month. IOW: Check the Adobe home page frequently for updates if you use their software, especially awful Flash.
The DEATH DATE for Flash is midnight, December 31, 2020. It can't come soon enough. Party at my place.
It's useless making a proper review of Flash, by now, so here's my comment... ;-) At the beginning of 2017, I uninstalled Flash NPAPI and switched to PPAPI so that I could fire a secondary Chromium browser when needed — my main one being Firefox — and that would be an advice I'd still give to anyone using a site that needs Flash. But on my side, even the rare sites I use that were still needing Flash a few months ago have now abandoned it. So a few weeks ago I also uninstalled the PPAPI version, installed VLC plugin, just in case (I'm not even sure it's of any use...), and all is freewheelin'. :-) I've never had any issue with Flash, so I won't blame it for anything — and before html5 came out of the wood, it was mandatory —, but it's simply useless now, for the vast majority of websites. It's the haaaard law of software: essential ones (such as Stuffit and many others) end up obsolete and useless.
I don't know what all the whining's about - I haven't had problems with Flash in a long time! I'm talking a couple years or so.
Maybe that's at least partially due to all the junk blockers I use. The player plays what it's supposed to, and I don't see most of what I don't want to.
Even today the Inet's almost unusable without it for most folks.
Yes, there are the occasional malware sites that urge me to update my flash player immediately (or some other BS), but that's not Adobe's fault.
It's actually Javascript that's allowing those popups/popunders, not Flash.
I visit a lot of suspect and known malware sites, yet I've never had a virus or even malware installed that I can recall - maybe a rogue Safari extension secretly installed once, I think.
And I don't have any antivirus protection installed, but I do run diagnostic and scanning utilities like EtreCheck, MacScan and Malwarebytes occasionally.
I haven't used it since early 2016 and I NEVER miss it. Garbage good bye!
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Version 27.0.0.170
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Big Johnson
28 October 2017
You must have a very dull browsing experience without viewing Flash videos like all those on Yahoo News and http://www.ultrasounds.com/.
I just uninstalled Flash then went to a few sites to see if HTML5 has replaced it so I no longer need Flash, but that's not the case.
Even in Chrome you still need Flash, and after v57 you can't disable plugins anyway.
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Mikael-B
29 October 2017
Humbug. No-one uses only Flash these days. Netflix doesn't, HBO doesn't, Facebook doesn't, My news sites don't, Vimeo doesn't, Youtube doesn't. I could go on for many pages.
Basically, if you're using Flash on your site that's because you don't count. Flash is over! Even Adobe know this.
Adobe Flash 26.0.0.151 is now out. It includes two security patches, one of which is CRITICAL. Update ASAP. Here is Adobe's security bulletin:
https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb17-23.html
Flash's Death Date (as of today) = 3.4 years and counting down.
NOTE: Today, Adobe rushed out an update to Flash v26. The new version is now v26.0.0.131. Be sure to update, if you still bother with Flash. (Uninstall Flash if you don't use it as it is the #1 Mac vector of security exploits!)
At the moment there is no accompanying Security Bulletin. If one appears, I'll note it below.
Release notes - issues fixed in June 13 release:
removeMovieClip() method is not working as expected(FP-4198425,FP-4198400)
http://catalog.kaientai.cc viewer application quits unexpectedly. (FP-4198403)
Video quits unexpectedly while playing from http://tw.youvivid.com/preview_showcase.asp (FP-4198402)
Flash Player quits unexpectedly upon interaction with site tabs(FP-4198407)
[Win 10]Incorrect KeyboardEvent CharCode while shift is pressed(or Capslock)(FP-4198430)
FileReference size and creationDate throws IO Error (FP-4198443)
[Win10][ Edge]Mouse Move events are delayed when full screen is set to interactive mode and mouse lock is true.( FP-4198071, FP-4173060)
DELETE FLASH – Download the uninstaller and remove this dangerous malware vector.
No thoughtful computer user needs Flash – if a website or service requires it – tell them to migrate to HTML-5 which is far more secure and efficient.
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Version 26.0.0.126
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Scion777
14 June 2017
Right. Telling businesses and colleges with MAJOR investments in flash-based media to change all their legacy data over. That will happen ASAP. Damn the cost! Oh, wait . . .
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mrsidoric
14 June 2017
Scion77: Are you kidding? You want us to believe that mitigating or recovering from a network-wide security breach is less expensive? Switching from candles to electricity... or to LED from incandescent is a bother. Adobe Flash has ZERO redeeming qualities – ask ANY IT professional. No sympathy for your cost issue. There are too many ZERO COST options and great migration tools.
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Mcr
14 June 2017
Any IT admin, CIO or CTO worth their salt has known about the perils of Flash for years and has (should have) seen the writing on the wall, it's not like suddenly waking up one day and realizing something must be done and having to expend major resources to change things overnight.
As content management changes, web maintenance, site overhauls, revamps and so on are a normal part of doing business and having a web portal, any migration of web technologies in a major organization (not just Flash, but any technology shifts) would be part of long term planning and budgeting; Flash would just be one part of a larger road map so would/should only add marginally to capital or op-ex costs.
In the same way that migrating from incandescent to LED bulbs in a factory is just ONE part of a bigger facilities plan that includes equipment upgrades, repairs, expansion, maintenance and so on. If you are a IT admin, CIO, CTO and suddenly waking up NOW in 2017 that something should be done, you aren't very good at your job, and would have a hard time explaining to your boss why you didn't plan for this and now treat it like a fire drill. Now if you did plan for this and management ignored you, then you need to go work somewhere else.
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Scion777
11 July 2017
Um, since when does any IT department control classroom content, business dept content, etc., etc. You people live in a dream world. There is no budget to convert thousands of flash vids used in education over to some other format. Get a grip, folks. And that's just the world of public education K-12. Try getting your director to sign a half-million dollar project to port over all the legacy flash media they had invested in. Good way to get terminated. Flash is here to stay for at least 10 more years. Deal with it.
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mrsidoric
11 July 2017
LOL – I work in an educational environment. There are lots of free solutions, and paid ones as well. Glad you are so devoted to a dead technology. Enjoy it while your entire network is at risk. http://www.faasoft.com/articles/swf-to-mp4-windows-and-mac.html
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Mcr
05 August 2017
Gentlemen, THE DEBATE IS OVER, Adobe itself has announced it will End of Life Flash by 2020, only 2 years away. https://blogs.adobe.com/conversations/2017/07/adobe-flash-update.html
Microsoft announcement to phase out Flash support in Edge and IE: https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2017/07/25/flash-on-windows-timeline/ Google announcement to phase out Flash support in Chrome: https://www.blog.google/products/chrome/saying-goodbye-flash-chrome/ Needless to say, we already know Apple's view on the subject. https://webkit.org/blog/7839/adobe-announces-flash-distribution-and-updates-to-end/
So if you use flash today, you have 2 years to plan and execute a migration, or you will at the end of 2020 have to explain to your superiors why your system is using a end of life technology that is no longer supported and updated by the creator; that means no security fixes, no bug fixes. ZIP, NADA.
As I said before, if you are an IT admin, CIO or CTO and didn't see this coming already, you weren't doing your job. At least now it is officially in writing, and if your superiors still refuse to accept it or listen to you, be forewarned you might end up being the fall guy to take the blame in two years when your superiors need a scape goat to explain why there wasn't a plan to deal with this. If you work for such people who are clueless strongly recommend you start documenting everything you say on the matter; when you told your bosses Flash was end of life, when you sent them the links, when you suggested to start planning for migration and so on.
One thing you CAN bet for sure on, and tell this to the business and education leaders. Once security patches STOP coming out, you can be DAMN sure there will be hacks out there who will find any remaining open holes and try to exploit them and PREY upon those very same people who continue to use the platform. There will be more effort and resources spent on trying to lock down everything and prevent being victims of an exploit than would have been spent on migrating away in the first place. Out of necessity and sheer fear, organizations will have to lock down and prevent users from accessing flash content to avoid getting hit by a security breach. They will eventually opt for the simplest and safest response, remove the plugins, end of story.
Great recommendation for improving your security: do not install Flash.
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Version 25.0.0.171
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higherterrain-com
14 September 2017
Ya and for another security tip, don't install Microsoft Office 2016. It like their OS is as big if not bigger security threat than Flash. If you know someone running that OS they should know that malware can climb into the OS and Virus Detectors or the OS can not detect them. https://thehackernews.com/2017/09/windows-10-linux-evade-malware.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheHackersNews+%28The+Hackers+News+-+Security+Blog%29
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NedC
12 February 2018
When is some other developer going to jump on the bandwagon.?? Some sites require it in order to view info. Hard to believe that this software is so propriety. Like most others, I would pay a reasonable $ for some other alternative.
As much as I'm tired of flash. HTML5 has gotten to point that I hate it even more. Flash videos can still be controlled. The video doesn't auto play it doesn't even load until you allow flash plugin to load. HTML5 videos these days are some of most intrusive things i've ever seen in my life and they cannot be controlled at all in most browsers. Some browsers like chrome have extensions that can sort of "block html5 media" but not always precise. Disabling auto play in browser settings doesn't always work if player doesn't honor it, and besides even with auto play disabled some crappy website can still be eating up your data with some HD video loading you didn't ask it to load. All around, the old me wanted to see flash die and now I hope they hang on as long as possible and keep a lot of these invasive videos on flash as long as possible.
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Version 25.0.0.127
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Derekcurrie
17 June 2017
Sadly, HTML5 remains an inadequate replacement for full Flash functionality, despite the HypetyHype.
The latest release is 25.0.0.127.
The full installer can be downloaded here: https://fpdownload.adobe.com/get/flashplayer/pdc/25.0.0.127/install_flash_player_osx.dmg?sdid=ZFN4FN24
Direct download of any other version (PPAPI, for example): https://www.adobe.com/support/flashplayer/debug_downloads.html — if like me you prefer downloading the full installer, not the usual tiny one that forces you to redownload it any time you want to install on another computer. ;-)
Until today I thought I could not get rid of Flash because of a few video websites that were getting stuck when using ClickToFlash on Safari, showing they had not implemented html5 yet...
I've just decided to try and uninstall it anyway and to my big surprise, those sites loaded their proprietary non-Flash player instead!
So, yes it's possible to live without Flash! :-D
Just in case, I installed the PPAPI version of Flash, so if I happen to find a site that really needs it, I have just to fire Opera or Vivaldi, while Safari and Firefox remain clean. ;-)
It took me a long time to finally dump Flash and everything to do with it. I was actually pleasantly surprised when I found that nothing I do now really misses that junk and my Mac runs SO MUCH BETTER now. Only wish I had done it far sooner.
Now that Chromium is no longer packaged with the latest Pepper Flash plugin (PPAPI), you can download the pepper flash downloader from here:
https://fpdownload.adobe.com/pub/flashplayer/latest/help/install_flash_player_osx_ppapi.dmg
This is not the plugin itself, but when run will download the latest PPAPI (Pepper flash) plug in.
You can install in a virtual machine or use Pacifist to extract the actual plug file then copy to
/Library/Internet Plug-Ins/PepperFlashPlayer.
I believe Adobe was sending mixed messages, but it appears that they may have intended for 22.0.0.209 to be final version supported on systems running Mac OS X 10.6-10.8. That said, I've found that version 23.0.0.207, which they clearly state is supported on systems running Mac OS X 10.9 - macOS 10.12, installed and seems to work fine on a system running Mac OS X 10.7.5.
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Version 23.0.0.207
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rardin
12 January 2017
Same goes for version 24.0.0.194. Seems to work ok on a system running Mac OS X 10.7.5.
Despite all uneducated comments here, Flash is still a good product and multi-platform development tool.
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Version 23.0.0.185
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Derekcurrie
08 November 2016
All of my comments about Flash could not be more educated. Flash is the single most dangerous software a Mac user can run on their computer. Because it is a multi-platform development tool, that means that Flash is just as dangerous on other platforms as well. As I suggested below, please read my blog for actual Flash security coverage, instead of continuing to foist your ignorant comments as seen above.
https://Mac-Security.blogspot.com
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Amcarter3
15 December 2016
What's the alternative? I've had Flash on my "Macs" for 20+ years and have never seen a single issue... nor have I ever known a Mac-User who had an issue with Flash.
I wonder how many people complaining here about how 'dangerous' Flash is have actually been hacked/malwared through a vulnerability in it? Um....none? I would think it's an extremely rare occurrence on the Mac.
Apple rid themselves of Flash for performance reasons as early iPhones couldn't handle the CPU load , rather than as is asserted here, some holy crusade to save the world from obscure buffer overflows and the like.
Flash is/was a brilliant and accessible platform for writing 2d games, afaik there is no serious replacement for it to this day.
Yes, Flash has its faults, it slows down web pages and gobbles CPU, but since Flash has gone out of fashion, sites have become more and more bloated with massive javascript, millions more ads, opt in overlays, and pointless videos anyway. So I doubt the web has got magically faster or 'better' in that time.
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Version 23.0.0.185
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WetNet
28 October 2016
HTML5 is the future you fool...it is much faster and NO CPU load like Adobe Flash does. I DARE you to prove it to me Flash is better than HTML5.
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Derekcurrie
08 November 2016
Ahem David-Evian. If you bothered to actually follow Flash security you'll find that there have not only been exploits of Flash on Mac, but zero-day exploits (when Adobe had not foreseen a security flaw before it was patched). Then add to that the extremely common practice of websites foisting fraudulent Flash 'update' installers for the purpose of installing malware on Macs.
If you would like to review real Flash problems I suggest you read through my blog at:
The only reason this is on my computer is because of the games my wife plays on Facebook. Under my long in, I use the 'ClickToFlash' extension for Safari. It does a very good job of blocking all flash content.
Well if Steve was right on Flashplayer,and you go to a site that says "FLASHPLAYER REQUIRED"
Tell us what is one to use???
Thanks
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Version 23.0.0.185
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mrsidoric
14 October 2016
Contact their webmaster and DEMAND they use HTML-5 instead. Even YouTube gave in to user demands and switched. If you don't complain, they won't fix it. VOTE WITH YOUR EYEBALLS. If you want your computer virus-ridden and a vector for malware -- remain silent.
If you still use this dangerous security bug riddled software, version 23.0.0.185 was released today and features 12 critical CVE security patches. UPDATE NOW, or banish it from you Mac forever. The Security Bulletin is here:
https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb16-32.html
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Version 23.0.0.162
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BradMacPro
12 October 2016
Do you know what the last version that required only Snow Leopard? On Adobe's web site the pop-up shows 10.6-10.12 but the actual requirements are 10.9-10.12.
Problematic software at best, weakest point for my Macs. Needed for soem web content, including my banks. Unable to remove so am forced to use this appalling software.
Updated to version 22.0.0.209 on 7-22-2016.
https://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/distribution3.html
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Version 22.0.0.192
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Derekcurrie
26 July 2016
Actually, Adobe flash was updated on July 12th. Adobe foolishly follows the 'second-tuesday-of-the-month' update schedule originally perpetrated by Microsoft.. It's creepy in the extreme that this most insecure of all Mac software is being posted here at MacUpdate a full 13 days after Adobe posted it on their website. This crapware, if you use it, requires IMMEDIATE updating as the updates are made available. Last month's update patched an exploit of Flash that was active in-the-wild. It doesn't get any worse. This month's update patches 52 (fifty-two) security holes. Here's the security bulletin:
Recently I noticed that some time after a Flash update the Mac sound system mutes (everything - alerts, iTunes, Safari, Audio Midi ... everything) with no fix but reboot. The period of time might be a few hours to a couple of days (I am not sure exactly what triggers the mute). It happened with the recent 3 or 4 flash updates, Did anyone noticed that too? Please someone flush the flash from the surface of the earth and the internet (and Adobe too while at it).
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Version 22.0.0.192
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Scion777
23 July 2016
No, I've never had that happen in over 10 years of using the Flash Player web plugin. Something is corrupted on your Mac.
Flash audio-videos and audios will be around for some time to come, if only legacy uploads by the tens of thousands out there.
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The issue with many of these sites is, They require flash to watch content from a computer. Buying or renting content can be done without flash, and of course viewing content on a streaming player such as ROKU / Apple TV, or even tablet or phone (iPad, iPhone, etc) doesn't require flash. Most of the sites i needed flash for have changed over now. So it's just as needed at this point.
At the beginning of 2017, I uninstalled Flash NPAPI and switched to PPAPI so that I could fire a secondary Chromium browser when needed — my main one being Firefox — and that would be an advice I'd still give to anyone using a site that needs Flash.
But on my side, even the rare sites I use that were still needing Flash a few months ago have now abandoned it.
So a few weeks ago I also uninstalled the PPAPI version, installed VLC plugin, just in case (I'm not even sure it's of any use...), and all is freewheelin'. :-)
I've never had any issue with Flash, so I won't blame it for anything — and before html5 came out of the wood, it was mandatory —, but it's simply useless now, for the vast majority of websites.
It's the haaaard law of software: essential ones (such as Stuffit and many others) end up obsolete and useless.
Maybe that's at least partially due to all the junk blockers I use.
The player plays what it's supposed to, and I don't see most of what I don't want to.
Even today the Inet's almost unusable without it for most folks.
Yes, there are the occasional malware sites that urge me to update my flash player immediately (or some other BS), but that's not Adobe's fault.
It's actually Javascript that's allowing those popups/popunders, not Flash.
I visit a lot of suspect and known malware sites, yet I've never had a virus or even malware installed that I can recall - maybe a rogue Safari extension secretly installed once, I think.
And I don't have any antivirus protection installed, but I do run diagnostic and scanning utilities like EtreCheck, MacScan and Malwarebytes occasionally.
I just uninstalled Flash then went to a few sites to see if HTML5 has replaced it so I no longer need Flash, but that's not the case.
Even in Chrome you still need Flash, and after v57 you can't disable plugins anyway.
Basically, if you're using Flash on your site that's because you don't count. Flash is over! Even Adobe know this.
What's Yahoo? Yep, something that's over!
Download thru Flash in the System Preferences
As content management changes, web maintenance, site overhauls, revamps and so on are a normal part of doing business and having a web portal, any migration of web technologies in a major organization (not just Flash, but any technology shifts) would be part of long term planning and budgeting; Flash would just be one part of a larger road map so would/should only add marginally to capital or op-ex costs.
In the same way that migrating from incandescent to LED bulbs in a factory is just ONE part of a bigger facilities plan that includes equipment upgrades, repairs, expansion, maintenance and so on. If you are a IT admin, CIO, CTO and suddenly waking up NOW in 2017 that something should be done, you aren't very good at your job, and would have a hard time explaining to your boss why you didn't plan for this and now treat it like a fire drill. Now if you did plan for this and management ignored you, then you need to go work somewhere else.
http://www.faasoft.com/articles/swf-to-mp4-windows-and-mac.html
https://blogs.adobe.com/conversations/2017/07/adobe-flash-update.html
Microsoft announcement to phase out Flash support in Edge and IE:
https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2017/07/25/flash-on-windows-timeline/
Google announcement to phase out Flash support in Chrome:
https://www.blog.google/products/chrome/saying-goodbye-flash-chrome/
Needless to say, we already know Apple's view on the subject.
https://webkit.org/blog/7839/adobe-announces-flash-distribution-and-updates-to-end/
So if you use flash today, you have 2 years to plan and execute a migration, or you will at the end of 2020 have to explain to your superiors why your system is using a end of life technology that is no longer supported and updated by the creator; that means no security fixes, no bug fixes. ZIP, NADA.
As I said before, if you are an IT admin, CIO or CTO and didn't see this coming already, you weren't doing your job. At least now it is officially in writing, and if your superiors still refuse to accept it or listen to you, be forewarned you might end up being the fall guy to take the blame in two years when your superiors need a scape goat to explain why there wasn't a plan to deal with this. If you work for such people who are clueless strongly recommend you start documenting everything you say on the matter; when you told your bosses Flash was end of life, when you sent them the links, when you suggested to start planning for migration and so on.
One thing you CAN bet for sure on, and tell this to the business and education leaders. Once security patches STOP coming out, you can be DAMN sure there will be hacks out there who will find any remaining open holes and try to exploit them and PREY upon those very same people who continue to use the platform. There will be more effort and resources spent on trying to lock down everything and prevent being victims of an exploit than would have been spent on migrating away in the first place. Out of necessity and sheer fear, organizations will have to lock down and prevent users from accessing flash content to avoid getting hit by a security breach. They will eventually opt for the simplest and safest response, remove the plugins, end of story.
Some sites require it in order to view info. Hard to believe that this software is so propriety. Like most others, I would pay a reasonable $ for some other alternative.
https://Mac-Security.blogspot.com
Apple rid themselves of Flash for performance reasons as early iPhones couldn't handle the CPU load , rather than as is asserted here, some holy crusade to save the world from obscure buffer overflows and the like.
Flash is/was a brilliant and accessible platform for writing 2d games, afaik there is no serious replacement for it to this day.
Yes, Flash has its faults, it slows down web pages and gobbles CPU, but since Flash has gone out of fashion, sites have become more and more bloated with massive javascript, millions more ads, opt in overlays, and pointless videos anyway. So I doubt the web has got magically faster or 'better' in that time.
If you would like to review real Flash problems I suggest you read through my blog at:
https://Mac-Security.blogspot.com
Even YouTube gave in to user demands and switched. If you don't complain, they won't fix it. VOTE WITH YOUR EYEBALLS. If you want your computer virus-ridden and a vector for malware -- remain silent.
https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb16-25.html
Flash audio-videos and audios will be around for some time to come, if only legacy uploads by the tens of thousands out there.