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Ruffle (a open source re-implementation of adobe flash player) reviews improvements made in 2023 (ruffle.rs)

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Which browser even supports installing flash player?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Falkon. It's the only web browser I can think of that still has PPAPI. Maybe Konqueror and Angelfish also do? Would have to check. Either way, these browsers all kinda suck and obviously any browser you'd want to use has dropped support, as I already conceded. Ruffle works in most modern web browsers, Flash does not.

I just didn't really consider that necessary for strictly preservation purposes. All you need is an archive of SWF files you can download like flashpoint and software that can launch them. Flash Player and Ruffle are both perfectly suitable for this.