If you decide to go a different route and hand install an older Flash player that doesn't have the built-in time bomb, it appears the version you want is 32.0.0.371 or older.<p>Unfortunately, there's a free-after-use vulnerability. <a href="https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb20-30.html" rel="nofollow">https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb2...</a><p>I'm somewhat surprised nobody has packaged up an old version and wrapped it with "only run flash for these urls" and "don't update the ppapi plugin" type functionality. All the pieces seem to be available: <a href="https://support.google.com/chrome/a/answer/7084871?hl=en" rel="nofollow">https://support.google.com/chrome/a/answer/7084871?hl=en</a>
Worth mentioning, the Internet Archive is now archiving Flash animations[0,1] using Ruffle.rs[2]<p>[0]<a href="http://blog.archive.org/2020/11/19/flash-animations-live-forever-at-the-internet-archive/" rel="nofollow">http://blog.archive.org/2020/11/19/flash-animations-live-for...</a><p>[1]<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25154128" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25154128</a><p>[2]<a href="https://ruffle.rs/" rel="nofollow">https://ruffle.rs/</a>
Hi there, lead-dev of CheerpX for Flash and CTO of Leaning Technologies here. If you are curious about our tech, feel free do drop questions here or on Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/alexpignotti" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/alexpignotti</a>
This one is the best I have seen. It converts the swf very accurately: <a href="https://swf2js.com/en/" rel="nofollow">https://swf2js.com/en/</a>
<i>> there is a lot of content built with Flash that is absolutely worth preserving.</i><p>True, dat.<p>I remember a stick figure animation interactive story, called "Time to Die," that was a riot.
"..decades of content built with Flash and published as SWF (Small Web Format) files.."
The SWF extension was originally an acronym for ShockWave Flash file, not Small Web Format (however, this was adopted later as a "backronym").<p><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWF" rel="nofollow">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SWF</a>
Looks great. That being said, a lot of the open-source Flash runtimes I've seen have been left to rot. I'm hoping this doesn't go down the same path, because it's a very good idea.
A sandboxed, standalone inspector / player might be welcome for archival use, but there’s little light between Flash vulns and candy-flavored menthol cigarettes, IMHO.