Flash support and Chrome

[Sheridan]

With Chrome now blocking flash support unless you manually whitelist sites I'm wondering how everyone is going to handle this. Are you simply letting the block affect all sites, or allowing users to unblock sites themselves?

 

We don't allow users to change Chrome settings, so they couldn't unblock a flash site unless we change that policy, or is there a way of maintaining an 'allowed flash sites' for Chrome through group policies perhaps.

 

I know flash is a troublesome nuisance like java, but educational sites still use it a lot.

[caffrey]

Personally I've left it to the end user with instructions on how to enable it

 

But does this help ?

 

https://www.chromium.org/administrators/policy-list-3#PluginsAllowedForUrls

[Sheridan]

I'd never noticed that policy before! Thanks!

 

Getting them weaned off flash is the better plan longterm but a lot of sites are slow to change.

[caffrey]

I don't think we will ever escape from it, everyone seems to have links to these ancient resources I get asked about flash every other day (CEM is one that springs to mind)

[Michael]

Similar to Java, you need to whitelist domains/IPs. Alternatively just point shortcuts at IE - this still supports Flash fully as standard.