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Just a fun question, don't read too much into it.

I use it when it is required, which is less & less these days. So I guess I'd need another category in the poll?!?!? :lipsrsealed:

Yep.. every single day. And nope that is not for games.

On the rare occasions that I encounter flash these days, I just search for an alternative or do without.

Yup, still have some stuff here at work that requires it.

Running without it for about 2yrs now.

I haven't noticed it lately, I think Chrome/Firefox would show a notification and ask to enable it for the site, don't remember seeing that anytime recently. I guess once Adobe stops supporting it it will quickly be completely expunged from sites and most companies would ban it on their computers.

Current version of Opera shows it, gives user choices in Settings on how to manage it.

It would be interesting to see a similar poll about Java...

Yes.

Need it for my security camera website.

Never.

I have it installed because it comes with MX Linux, but I make sure to set the browser plug-in to Never activate. I don't know what Flash is good for in 2019, but legacy support is always good I guess.

Just a couple of the web sites I visit ask for it now. Much less than a few years ago.

adobe uninstalled, no browser plugin

suggestion for Java poll:

java, needed for banking softw.
java script in browser disabled

it's an right PiTA - - as there is still some sites, that seem to require it.

So far is adobe flash still important part of system ...

Chrom{e,ium} will disable Flash by default as of v76 (due this month): https://www.chromium.org/flash-roadmap

Mozilla are dropping Flash support for FF v69: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1519434

The NPAPI plugin itself will reach EOL at the end of next year: https://theblog.adobe.com/adobe-flash-update/

Some photo editing sites that my Wife uses require Adobe Flash and won't work without it.
I try to steer her towards offline applications, but she likes the crazy photo effects, etc. I may have finally broke her of that though with Cyberlink Power Director Ultimate.

Other than that, unless it's still required by a website, I have no need for it really.

A lot of online school educational applications use it (in the UK). There doesn't seem to be a rush of investment to update such things. I bet most school level IT systems are a security nightmare.

Chrome's flash has been disabled by default for quite some time longer. You can re-enable it on a per site basis when you click the lock icon in the address bar if there is flash on the page.