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Reference url: https://www.blog.google/products/chrome/saying-goodbye-flash-chrome/

Adobe announced its plans to stop supporting Flash at the end of 2020. And google announced that remove Flash completely from Chrome toward the end of 2020.

Still we are using magento1 and image upload depended on flash. if flash removed from chrome, how to upload images in magento 1?

  1. is all magento 1 version depended on flash? (currently using 1.9.4.4)
  2. is there any patch from magento for this issue?
  3. what are the impact on magento 1, if flash removed from browser?
  4. what is the solution for the image upload, if flash removed from browser?

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  1. Chosen as BEST ANSWER

    this was resolved in SUPEE 8788 and 1.9.3 release

    Core team switched to JS uploader for this reason.

    https://support.hypernode.com/en/best-practices/security/how-to-install-magento-patch-supee-8788-and-release-1-9-3

    https://magento.com/security/patches/supee-8788

    APPSEC-666 - Cross-site scripting in Flash file uploader


  2. As flash player is no longer in service you should move to html5 base uploader

    Just follow instructions given in link below, I tested on 1.9.4 and it worked !!!

    https://www.mavenecommerce.com/2016/10/18/magento-html5-uploader

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