Turn off Google Chrome's Notification for “Flash Player will no longer be supported after December 2020.”.Pl ниK H лонvgпvgpageTd
Every time I launch Google Chrome, I get this notification on top. I'm not going to turn it off, and I click on the x button to close it but it pops up again when I restart Chrome.
Is there any hidden setting or workaround to disable this notification?
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1Well, sure it's going to be irritating, I get that - but what do you still use that needs Flash, & have you asked whether the developer is planning on getting away from an obsolete platform? That would be my primary concern. I banned Flash from this entire building 5 years ago & no-one's come to me begging for it back since. – Tetsujin yesterday
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3@Tetsujin Honestly, I play lots of flash games still. I'd love to ban it too for security concerns but developers need to move to HTML5 and the transition is not that fast. Flash is going to be removed in 16 months from now and Chrome is going to annoy me with this notification for all that long.. It's so frustrating..! – Shayan yesterday
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4@Tetsujin there's loads of Flash content including classic games that is not maintained, and is likely never going to be updated or moved to another platform. – Peteris 21 hours ago
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1I think that making it annoying is a design feature. And even then, some people will complain that suddenly Flash doesn't work or that they didn't knwo about it in advance. – Ángel 16 hours ago
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1I don't know if this is possible, but perhaps you could download the flash games and use them locally with a flash player/interpreter? this would work even after the browser drops support – sudo rm -rf slash 12 hours ago
1 Answer
Unfortunately, according to the Google 'Product Expert' here https://support.google.com/chrome/thread/11549634?msgid=12862133, there doesn't seem to be any way to disable the notification. Considering the amount of complaints about it, however, here's hoping they'll release an update soon which will allow turning it off permanently.
That said, these news might cheer you up a little bit:
"Apparently the Chrome v78 update will snooze the pop-up for 14 days." (source: https://support.google.com/chrome/thread/12081675?msgid=12879414)
But I agree with the poster, every 14 days for a year isn't that great either!
Personally, I have turned Flash off, and only enable it when prompted by a trusted website – which fortunately happens less and less nowadays.
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Or you could always download a previous version of Chrome... currently using Chrome 73 - but that does have a security risk, doesn't it? ;) – User that is not a user 15 hours ago
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3Or, if you don't need Google-specific additions, you can try compiling Chromium with this notification stubbed out (see
FlashDeprecationInfoBarDelegate::ShouldDisplayFlashDeprecationwhich appeared in this commit) — or even stub it out in the binary using a hex editor (by putting something like33 c0 c3at the entry point of this method on x86/x86_64). – Ruslan 9 hours ago -
"Considering the amount of complaints about it, however, here's hoping they'll release an update soon" You must be new to Google Chrome threads 😂 – Lightness Races in Orbit 33 mins ago
