Comment 18 for bug 1911463

Łukasz:

Up until the EOL date, Flash provided copies of the PPAPI and NPAPI plugins on their Flash Debug Downloads page. Since that date, all versions of the plugins have been yanked (even in the archived versions!) and only the standalone executables exist for the running of Flash files. Attempting to get the older versions gives you a page stating "The Flash Player archive page has been decommissioned. Customers requiring Flash Player can visit our download page for the latest available version" - which in turn points to the EOL page

While *technically* I have a copy from the last full site snag I did of the debug binaries on the 28th of December, since Adobe and everyone yanked support the only way to **get** those binaries to install the NPAPI or PPAPI plugins is to have an older copy already downloaded and available.

With the major players of the browser market (Edge, Firefox, Chrome, Chromium, etc.) all yanking the plugin and forcing it to be permanently disabled or removed in a default environment anyways, and the only solution to bypass that is to disable EOL removal and plugin disabling flags in Chrome/Firefox, and then install a variant from the Partner repository from August, or if you're me manually install the PPAPI or NPAPI plugins where they have to go. However, since 100% of the universe does NOT have access to my last-version-of-flash-plugin downloads, that invalidates the ability for MOST users to get the plugin.

In either case, replacing this with a dummy package should be done - with the OEM request and the effective killing of the Partner repository flash version, older versions would have the same problem as any other, and only a manual installation of the NPAPI or PPAPI plugins **if you happened to have them prior to the yank of them by Adobe** is the only way to still 'get' Flash support it seems.