[Solved]Remove Flash Player notice still shows after removing Flash Player

[wnlewis]

wnlewis last edited by leocg

I am running Opera version 73.0.3856.344 for Macintosh on a Mac Pro 5,1 that is running Mojave, 10.14.16.

I have downloaded the Flash Player remover from Adobe and run it two times. It reports that Flash Player is removed successfully.

Each time I open Opera, I get a notice at the top of the screen that says: Flash Player will no longer be supported after December 2020.

How can I get rid of the announcement?

Thanks.

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @wnlewis last edited by

@wnlewis Did you disable Flash in settings? Did you remove all Flash players?

[wnlewis]

wnlewis last edited by

@leocg said in Remove Flash Player notice still shows after removing Flash Player:

@wnlewis Did you disable Flash in settings? Did you remove all Flash players?

Where do I find Flash "Player" in the Settings?

I removed the flash players by running the Adobe utility two times.

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @wnlewis last edited by

@wnlewis Here: opera://settings/content/flash

[wnlewis]

wnlewis @leocg last edited by

@leocg said in Remove Flash Player notice still shows after removing Flash Player:

opera://settings/content/flash

Your Flash settings will be kept until you quit Opera. Yes.

No sites blocked or allowed.

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @wnlewis last edited by

@wnlewis And what is the setting? Does it shows that Flash is blocked?

[wnlewis]

wnlewis @wnlewis last edited by

@wnlewis said in Remove Flash Player notice still shows after removing Flash Player:

opera://settings/content/flash

There are no sites listed at all on that window.

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @wnlewis last edited by

@wnlewis It's turned off (button on the left) or it's tuned on (button on the right)?

[wnlewis]

wnlewis @leocg last edited by

@leocg I have moved the button at the top of that page to the left.

The words associated with the button are: Your Flash settings will be kept until you quit Opera.

However, no program or site is listed below that selection.

[wnlewis]

wnlewis last edited by

After moving the button to the left, I also closed out of Opera, shut down the computer, restarted the computer (manually, not a restart selection), and opened Opera again.

Upon opening Opera I got:

Flash Player will no longer be supported after December 2020.

So, problem not gone.

[wnlewis]

wnlewis last edited by

It appears that it is related to the VPN setting.

If VPN is on the Flash Player warning appears. If VPN is off the Flash Player warning does not show.

Also, I am almost not able to search using the bar at the top of the screen in VPN mode. If I am not in VPN mode I can search with no problem.

I have turned off the search bar in the main part of the opening window. The only search engine that seems to be available on that search bar is Google, and I won't use that.

I'm using Duck Duck Go.

[leocg]

leocg Moderator Volunteer @wnlewis last edited by

@wnlewis Different issue, should not be discussed in this topic.

[wnlewis]

wnlewis @leocg last edited by

@leocg

OK. I will not discuss.

Flash Player issue is there if I am in VPN mode.

Flash Player issue is not there if I am not in VPN mode.

[vinbob]

vinbob @wnlewis last edited by

@wnlewis Thank you for this. I now know why this message is displayed on my machine that is, and has been for months, devoid of Flash.

[wnlewis]

wnlewis @vinbob last edited by

@vinbob Glad my observation was a help. Just kind of stumbled on to it. Some sort of anomaly. It would be interesting to know what little bit of software that was left behind, gets triggered when VPN is used.