Adobe Flash Player (discontinued) 32.0.0.465

Adobe stopped supporting Flash Player on 31 December 2020, and from 12 January 2021 Flash Player itself blocked all Flash content from playing. Web browsers removed Flash support at the same time, so it can no longer be used on today's computers.

What Flash Player was. For about two decades, Flash Player was the plug-in that brought animations, browser games, video players and interactive websites to the web. This page covered the Internet Explorer (ActiveX) edition for Windows. The final release, version 32.0.0.465, came out on 8 December 2020 as Adobe's last scheduled update. On Windows 8.1 and 10, Flash was built into Internet Explorer and updated through Windows Update instead, and Microsoft later shipped update KB4577586 to remove it from Windows.

Do not download Flash Player from other websites. Copies offered today are not from Adobe, receive no security fixes and are often bundled with malware. Adobe itself recommends uninstalling Flash Player.

What to use instead

• Videos, games and animations on modern websites work without any plug-in.
• To play old Flash games and animations, use Ruffle, a free, open-source Flash emulator that works as a browser extension or as a desktop app.
• To watch old Flash videos (.flv), use VLC media player, or convert them to MP4 with HandBrake.

Internet Explorer itself has also been retired.