[chromium-discuss] Flash Support for Chromium after 2020

[flash_r]

The Chromium-Team announced to "Remove Flash Support from Chromium" at the
end of 2020 (https://www.chromium.org/flash-roadmap). As far as I know,
Flash is currently embedded into the browser via the PPAPI/Native-Client
and therefore runs in a sandbox. In my current situation we have to ensure,
that a large proprietary <https://dict.leo.org/englisch-deutsch/proprietary> Flash
Application can be used even after 2020 by their clients. The clients are
the employees of that company. So we only need a local solution for the
employees using the application internal. I thought about forking the
chromium project, keeping the Flash part, while successively updating the
other parts of the project to get the latest security patches etc.
What are your suggestions on this topic? How will we be able to run our
Flash Applications in Chromium after 2020? Is there already a project
focusing on this? Are there other ways to keep Flash Player support? Maybe
via configuration of Chromium?

[Bartosz Fabianowski]

I see little reason to patch the Chrome part of your setup if you keep a
(then entirely unsupported) Flash plug-in around that will be
accumulating security holes. 2020 it two years away - time to rewrite
the app using a supported, up-to-date technology.

- Bartosz

Post by flash_r
The Chromium-Team announced to "Remove Flash Support from Chromium" at
the end of 2020 (https://www.chromium.org/flash-roadmap
<https://www.chromium.org/flash-roadmap>). As far as I know, Flash is
currently embedded into the browser via the PPAPI/Native-Client and
therefore runs in a sandbox. In my current situation we have to ensure,
that a large proprietary
<https://dict.leo.org/englisch-deutsch/proprietary> Flash Application
can be used even after 2020 by their clients. The clients are the
employees of that company. So we only need a local solution for the
employees using the application internal. I thought about forking the
chromium project, keeping the Flash part, while successively updating
the other parts of the project to get the latest security patches etc.
What are your suggestions on this topic? How will we be able to run our
Flash Applications in Chromium after 2020? Is there already a project
focusing on this? Are there other ways to keep Flash Player support?
Maybe via configuration of Chromium?
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[flash_r]

Many effort and cost was put into this application and the company does not
want to give it up. In the best case it would be possible to activate flash
only on the particular url where the flash app is running.

Post by Bartosz Fabianowski
I see little reason to patch the Chrome part of your setup if you keep a
(then entirely unsupported) Flash plug-in around that will be
accumulating security holes. 2020 it two years away - time to rewrite
the app using a supported, up-to-date technology.
- Bartosz

Post by flash_r
The Chromium-Team announced to "Remove Flash Support from Chromium" at
the end of 2020 (https://www.chromium.org/flash-roadmap
<https://www.chromium.org/flash-roadmap>). As far as I know, Flash is
currently embedded into the browser via the PPAPI/Native-Client and
therefore runs in a sandbox. In my current situation we have to ensure,
that a large proprietary
<https://dict.leo.org/englisch-deutsch/proprietary> Flash Application
can be used even after 2020 by their clients. The clients are the
employees of that company. So we only need a local solution for the
employees using the application internal. I thought about forking the
chromium project, keeping the Flash part, while successively updating
the other parts of the project to get the latest security patches etc.
What are your suggestions on this topic? How will we be able to run our
Flash Applications in Chromium after 2020? Is there already a project
focusing on this? Are there other ways to keep Flash Player support?
Maybe via configuration of Chromium?
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[Greg Kerr]

You should read Adobe's statement on their plans for Flash player support:
https://theblog.adobe.com/adobe-flash-update/

Regards,

Greg

Post by flash_r
Many effort and cost was put into this application and the company does
not want to give it up. In the best case it would be possible to activate
flash only on the particular url where the flash app is running.

Post by Bartosz Fabianowski
I see little reason to patch the Chrome part of your setup if you keep a
(then entirely unsupported) Flash plug-in around that will be
accumulating security holes. 2020 it two years away - time to rewrite
the app using a supported, up-to-date technology.
- Bartosz

Post by flash_r
The Chromium-Team announced to "Remove Flash Support from Chromium" at
the end of 2020 (https://www.chromium.org/flash-roadmap
<https://www.chromium.org/flash-roadmap>). As far as I know, Flash is
currently embedded into the browser via the PPAPI/Native-Client and
therefore runs in a sandbox. In my current situation we have to ensure,
that a large proprietary
<https://dict.leo.org/englisch-deutsch/proprietary> Flash Application
can be used even after 2020 by their clients. The clients are the
employees of that company. So we only need a local solution for the
employees using the application internal. I thought about forking the
chromium project, keeping the Flash part, while successively updating
the other parts of the project to get the latest security patches etc.
What are your suggestions on this topic? How will we be able to run our
Flash Applications in Chromium after 2020? Is there already a project
focusing on this? Are there other ways to keep Flash Player support?
Maybe via configuration of Chromium?
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