Thanks Matt, What she didn't tell me is that her game will no longer be played on facebook, it is not a Windows Executable, so that changes the game.
On Tue, Dec 15, 2020 at 12:43 PM Matthew Gillen <[email protected]> wrote: > On 12/15/2020 11:53 AM, Jerry Feldman wrote: > > My wife plays several Facebook games on Linux. But these are flash based > > and will no longer work on January 1 as I have been told. She uses Chrome > > as her browser. I'm willing to install a hack to retain flash either on > > Chrome or Firefox. > > > > I am going to try to install windows 10 in a vm. I have an activation key > > that should be valid. > > I think that these games makers will be highly motivated to move away > from flash if they haven't already, because Flash going EOL affects > windows too. Chrome is going to blacklist that plugin (it's already a > real pain to use flash on Chrome to click through the warnings). I > believe using flash after the first of the year is going to be out of > reach for a vast majority of non-technical facebook users, even on windows: > > > https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2020/09/04/update-adobe-flash-end-support/ > > Beginning in January 2021, Adobe Flash Player will be disabled by > > default and all versions older than KB4561600 released in June 2020 > > will be blocked. > > So I don't think a windows vm will help, and if these people want to > stay in business they will re-write their apps in HTML5 anyway. > > FWIW, Citibank credit cards had a virtual account number app that was in > flash that hadn't changed substantially for over a decade. This year > they finally ported it to not require flash. So there's hope! > > Matt > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > -- -- Jerry Feldman <[email protected]> Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id: 6F6BB6E7 Key fingerprint: 0EDC 2FF5 53A6 8EED 84D1 3050 5715 B88D 6F6B B6E7 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
