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Re:HTML5 still doesn't replicate what mattered about Flash by naikrovek on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @10:20PM (#25589234)
> Nobody had a standalone Flash player installed

What? Literally everyone who downloaded the flash plugin and ran the installer got a standalone player installed as well. It was right there in the start menu for anyone to find.

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Re:HTML5 still doesn't replicate what mattered about Flash by zapzupnz on Thursday December 31, 2020 @01:25AM (#25590122)
That very much depended on how they installed Flash. If they downloaded the plugin via the Adobe website, it depended on whether you got the ActiveX control version or the Netscape version. For computers in more recent memory, you didn’t need either: just a copy of Chrome set as your default browser.
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