Just a quick disclaimer, I wan't sure where to post this. I figured this might be the best place. I am sorry if there is a better place for me to be posting this that I am unaware of.

I used to be able to go to flash-based animations/games and hit the "download" button, and it would forward my browser tab to a full view of the animation. Now when I press it, it is downloads a .swf file to my PC. I am not sure if I am missing something, if I accidentally changed something, or if it was changed.

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This is intented behavior by your browser as they are slowly phasing out flash support until it's fully out by 2020.

If you're a Windows user, this works nicely: http://swftools.sourceforge.net/swf-to-exe.html

It converts swf to simple exe that can be ran full-screen even if you don't have any flash-player installed. Personally, I've used it for games such as Monster Mind, no compatibility problems.

Genjar said:
If you're a Windows user, this works nicely: http://swftools.sourceforge.net/swf-to-exe.html

It converts swf to simple exe that can be ran full-screen even if you don't have any flash-player installed. Personally, I've used it for games such as Monster Mind, no compatibility problems.

Or instead just use flash projector directly. This way you can update it and don't have to manually handle every single file you download. After all, you can just select it as default software to open .swf files in windows.
https://puu.sh/ApBcC/b45e645d38.mp4

Mairo said:
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This is intented behavior by your browser as they are slowly phasing out flash support until it's fully out by 2020.

Thanks. So, Google Chrome is getting rid of flash along with any others or something? I just dislike Chrome more and more each year, but I've invested so much time, and I have so many files I would have to transfer, and I am too lazy to do that, not to mention it being a little tedious (having more than just basic chrome bookmark logs and such). What does this mean for flash?

I added the extension you mentioned in your first link, it works, but it feels as though I will have to repeatedly full-screen anything of that nature when I load in tab lists.

Okay, a quick addition to this post. Upon opening a folder of saved tabs, about 80% of them (all full-screened flashes) just decided to download. Which means I won't be able to view them, and I do not plan to save a crap ton of files to my computer so I can view them.

AllThisPornIsAmazing said:
Okay, a quick addition to this post. Upon opening a folder of saved tabs, about 80% of them (all full-screened flashes) just decided to download. Which means I won't be able to view them, and I do not plan to save a crap ton of files to my computer so I can view them.

you can always change browsers

I have just tried using Firefox and Opera since my last comment. Opera is acting the same. Firefox is going to take some getting used to, and is not near as convenient as Chrome. This is a big issue, Adobe Flash is going to be obsolete, and will almost certainly be removed from more than just Chrome, it seems. Of course, as Mairo said. But it's not just Google Chrome that is being affected by this.

I mean, you don't have to use it for everything, you can just have firefox around specifically to open SWFs without downloading them and then use chrome the rest of the time.

AllThisPornIsAmazing said:
Thanks. So, Google Chrome is getting rid of flash along with any others or something? I just dislike Chrome more and more each year, but I've invested so much time, and I have so many files I would have to transfer, and I am too lazy to do that, not to mention it being a little tedious (having more than just basic chrome bookmark logs and such). What does this mean for flash?

darryus said:
you can always change browsers

Changing browser doesn't help when Adobe themselves are pulling the plug on the whole thing and when it's ALL browsers doing this - after all, flash is the only thing that browsers have had to seperately integrate into them nowdays, Edge doesn't support any other plugins and Chrome did drop support for NPAPI years ago, it being unupdated would mean performance drop and browser as whole getting unsecure.
https://theblog.adobe.com/adobe-flash-update/
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/07/with-html5-webgl-javascript-ascendant-adobe-to-cease-flash-dev-at-end-of-2020/
https://www.theverge.com/2017/7/25/16026236/adobe-flash-end-of-support-2020

I would still just recommend getting the files to local memory and then running them with flash projector. After all flash projector is adobes official executable, should work better when it's run directly instead of withing browser and does allow stuff like fullscreening without anything messing up. It also opens flash files with their project resolution initially so you won't get scaling artifacts.
https://www.adobe.com/support/flashplayer/debug_downloads.html
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Thank you so much Mairo, you're my FUCKING HERO 0w0