You must be at least 18 years old to be eligible to trade in for credit or for an Apple Store Gift Card. Not all devices are eligible for credit. More details are available from Apple’s Mac trade‑in partner and Apple’s iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch trade‑in partner for trade-in and recycling of eligible devices. Jun 28, 2019 This free Mac app is a product of Macromedia. The application is sometimes distributed under different names, such as 'Flash Player Old', 'Flash Player Older', 'Flash Player-Intel'. The most popular versions among Flash Player for Mac users are 13.0, 11.4 and 11.2.
In this article, we take a look at how you candownload Flash games to play offline so that you can still play them after thetakedown of Adobe Flash Player in 2020. We’ll offer a step by step guide tohelp you download and play these games once downloaded.
The entire process is very easy and won’t takemore than 10 minutes of your time. You’ll be able to play hundreds, if notthousands of games from your desktop once you’ve followed this guide.
Why is Flash Going in 2020?
It’s been a long time coming, but Flash willfinally be discontinued in 2020 and most browsers that support it now will dropsupport alongside Adobe’s agreement to drop it. Ultimately, Flash was tooclunky and had potential performance issues on many of the world’s devicestoday.
The main issue though, was that Flash isterribly insecure. Malware developers use Flash as an easy tool to createattacks because the software has so many zero-day exploits that make thispossible.
For most browsing, not having Flash won’t make any difference. In fact, Flash player is often disabled by default, even now, and you often need to click to allow Flash elements to play in the first place.
Many more suitable open standards like HTML5 and WebGL are far more sufficient for what Flash used to do in the past, so many have already turned away from it.
So, whilst Flash is going in 2020, it won’t be the end of browser based games. In fact, many are now moving to Unity or HTML5, which is far more powerful.
The only issue is those thousands of games that were developed in Flash in the past and are now close to going extinct. Thankfully there is a solution. If you like playing Flash games specifically, the following guide will help you.
How to Download Flash Games to Play on Your Desktop
The best thing you can do to download flashgame is to use the Flashpoint preservation project. With this, you can downloada tool that can then be used to install and play currently preserved games. Thelist of preserved games is ever expanding, and right now there is over 100GB offlash games.
You can download Flashpoint here. There are two options. You can either download the entire games bundle (over 100GB) or you can download the preservation project software (500MB) without games, and then each game is loaded when you want to play them. For this guide, we’ll be explaining how you can download and use the smaller software package.
To begin with, click the ‘download’ button on the Flashpoint website. Once thefile has downloaded, you must unzip itwith an archive tool like WinRAR.
Once it has been unzipped, open the folder you extracted it to andthen click ‘start Flashpoint’.
From the page that opens, you now have anumber of options, you can click the hall of fame to see the most populargames, click view games to browse everything available, or even browse throughsome flash animations.
There’s a search button so it’s quite easy tofind the games you are specifically looking for. Once you’ve found a game thatinterests you, either by browsing, or by searching, simply double click thegame and it will automatically download and open.
That’s pretty much it. As soon as you click agame and it opens, you’ll be able to hear sound and play the game from a newfloating window. You can resize the window but most games won’t resizeproperly. Most games work without any problems, but there are the occasionalissues with some games.
You can use the panel on the left to browse through different playlists of games, create your own playlists, or add games to your favorites. There are hundreds, if not thousands of games, so it’s worth keeping track of your most played ones.
To add a game to a specific playlist or your favorites, simply drag and drop its thumbnail into the corresponding title on the left panel.
My Favorite Games Aren’t on Flashpoint
Flashpoint is a huge project but the peopleworking on it are working fast to add as many games as possible. When 2020comes, we may not be able to get access to many of the games that previouslyexisted, because many flash based websites may shut down.
As a result, if there’s a game that’s not on the list that you like, you can request it here. You can also check the master list and use Ctrl+F and then type the name of your game to see if it is already available or not.
Summary
That brings our guide on downloading flashgames to an end. Did this guide prove to be useful. If you have any questions,leave a comment and I’ll get back to you as soon as I can.
Adobe Flash Player is a free software plug-in used by web browsers to view multimedia, execute rich Internet applications, and stream video on your Mac.
Adobe Flash Player is the most popular multimedia player plug-in available. However, recently there have been security concerns which has threatened its popularity as users seek safer alternative solutions. Opera, Firefox and Chrome contain built-in versions of Flash running in sandbox mode. This method is safer than running Flash as a plugin. However, currently the reality is that you still may need the Adobe Flash Player on your Mac because many websites will not work well if you uninstall it. Here I’ll show you how to install Adobe Flash Player and how to set it up correctly.
How to install Adobe Flash Player on your Mac.
1. Go to http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/ to download the Adobe Flash Player installer.
2. By default, the installer package will be downloaded to your “Downloads” folder.
3. Select the file on your Mac and double click to install it.
4. Select “Allow Adobe to install updates (recommended)” and click “DONE” to complete the installation.
If you installed Adobe Flash Player, but still cannot view online videos on certain websites, you need to check Adobe Flash Player on your browsers.
How to set up Adobe Flash Player on various browsers.
Safari
1. Launch Safari and go to the Apple menu bar and click Preferences.
2. Select the Websites tab and select On for “When visiting other websites.”
3. Refresh the browser tab, or restart the browser.
Google Chrome
1. Launch Chrome and type chrome://settings/content in the address field.
2. Select “Ask first (recommended)” and turn it on.
3. Refresh the browser tab or restart the browser.
Opera
1. Launch Opera and go to the Apple menu bar and click Preferences.
2. Select the Websites tab and then select “Allow sites to run Flash”
3. Refresh the browser tab or restart the browser.
Firefox
1. Launch Firefox and go to the Apple menu bar and click Tools – Add-ons.
2. Click the Plugins tab and turn the “Shockwave Flash” to “Always Activate.”
Note: (SWF (Shock Wave Flash) is a special format created by Macromedia, which has been acquired by Adobe. It is widely used in web design, animation production and other fields.)
For enhancing the user experience and security, Adobe is always trying to improve Adobe Flash Player. However, sometimes when you view a website, a Flash Player upgrade popup appears. Most people would click the “update” button to update their Flash Player, but this could be a false popup used by hackers to compromise your Mac. This is a method hackers use to trick you into downloading adware and malware through a false popup.
Be careful and don’t trust any automatic updates of Adobe Flash Player. Here I will tell you how to install real Flash Player updates and set it up.
How to update Flash Player on Mac safely
1. Go to the Apple menu bar and select System Preferences.
2. Select Flash Player.
3. Select the Updates tab and select “Allow Adobe to install updates (recommended)”. (Note: The Flash plug-in is officially updated 1~2 times a month, so selecting this option avoids frequent update.)
4. You may now notice that the Flash Update settings now shows NPAPI and PPAPI plugins. Let me explain them.
NPAPI – used by Safari, Firefox
PPAPI – used by Chromium, Opera and Chrome (Chrome’s implementation is built in)
5. Click Check Now to confirm that you currently have the latest version installed.
If you had clicked a false popup and downloaded adware, don’t worry, the Apple App Store has many antivirus apps, such as Trend Micro’s Antivirus One, that you can use to do a free scan.
Follow the steps below in case you downloaded a fake Adobe Flash Player.
1. When you first install Antivirus One, click “Pattern Update” to make sure your virus pattern is up to date. We suggest you update the virus pattern every day.
2. After the first installation, we highly suggest you perform a full scan of your Mac to check all files for possible infections. The Full scan will take more than one hour.
3. If you still find adware and a full scan has not found any viruses, we recommend you use Adware Cleaner. You can access Adware Cleaner in the left panel of the Antivirus One window.
How to uninstall Adobe Flash Player
Adobe Flash Player for the Mac is a plug-in, not a Mac OS X application. When you try to uninstall Adobe Flash Player from your Mac, you might find that this plug-in is not so easy to delete. For example, you might see this message:
Adobe Flash Player Download Mac
Cannot find Adobe Flash Player in your Applications folder.
In this case, Adobe Flash Player could not be removed and no reason was given. The following steps show how to uninstall Adobe Flash Player with no remaining parts.
1. Go to the /Applications/Utilities/ folder on your Mac and double-click the Adobe Flash Player Install Manager app.
2. Click Uninstall to begin the process.
3. Type the password and click Install Helper.
4. If your browser is running, the following window will appear. Select “Force Close All” to continue.
5. After the uninstaller removes the Adobe Flash software from your Mac, click Done.