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Thankfully there are projects out there to preserve some of the content and I guess use the stand-alone player, like Flashpoint (https://bluemaxima.org/flashpoint/). All of the open source implementations I knew about, including Mozilla's basic js version that was intended for Firefox, seem to have been abandoned AFAIK.
On the upside, HTML 5 opened up cross platform support for a similar feature set albeit via a different language and API. Canvas and WebGL support in a browser opens up fast more platforms and devices to bring able to provide games or animations compared to a closed source blob. Integration in the browser should also prevent it being as exploitable as the updates are pushed via one component, the browser, rather than requiring browser and add-on updates. On the other hand, Chrome basically becoming the new IE6 in terms of market share and being at the heart of other browsers liked Edge has created a dream multi platform, multi browser attack/exploit target.
On the upside, HTML 5 opened up cross platform support for a similar feature set albeit via a different language and API. Canvas and WebGL support in a browser opens up fast more platforms and devices to bring able to provide games or animations compared to a closed source blob. Integration in the browser should also prevent it being as exploitable as the updates are pushed via one component, the browser, rather than requiring browser and add-on updates. On the other hand, Chrome basically becoming the new IE6 in terms of market share and being at the heart of other browsers liked Edge has created a dream multi platform, multi browser attack/exploit target.
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In 2020 our N900's browsers cant really handle https sites anymore and regular http is down to very few old abandoned websites. But back in the day and even now we could use the included version and the leaked Flash upgrade and surf the prevalent flash sites.
Goodbye Homestar Runner!
http://homestarrunner.com/
Now I will say that I hated the closed nature of Flash but it is still the passing of an era which started in the 90s near the dawn of the web and noisy phone line modems.