Enabling Flash in 2021

Adobe Flash

If, like me, you have a lot of legacy systems which are reliant on Abode Flash for their management UIs (eg vSphere Client) then Flash being killed off is very inconvenient

Luckily there is currently a fix!

This works as of January 12th 2021, who knows if it will be killed off.

This requires the creation of a file in the data directory of your browser

Google Chrome

To enable Flash in Chrome you need to create a file and provide it with some custom config.

Browse to your user’s local appdata directory ( %localappdata% can be used if it’s configured)

Within in browse to \Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Pepper Data\Shockwave Flash\

Create a new Folder called “System” and within here create a new file called mms.cfg

edit this file in notepad (other text editing programs are available) and enter the following text:

EOLUninstallDisable=1
EnableAllowList=1
AllowListPreview=1
AllowListUrlPattern=https://*.internaldomain.com

Replacing with your internal domain name to enable Flash on all your internal systems.

Microsoft Edge

As above, but this time your directory is

%localappdata%\Microsoft\Edge\User Data\Default\Pepper Data\Shockwave Flash\System\mms.cfg

Windows Internet Explorer

As above, but this time your directory is

%windir%\SysWOW64\Macromed\Flash\mms.cfg

Brave Browser

As above, but this time your directory is

%localappdata%\BraveSoftware\Brave-Browser\User Data\Default\Pepper Data\Shockwave Flash\System\mms.cfg