Flash suddenly stopped working on my site for Chrome / Firefox

[BlizzardUK]

Got a customer today telling me the sample sound clips don't work in Windows 10 with Chrome and Opera. I checked myself and they are not working for me either (nor with Firefox). But a friend with Windows 7 seems to work fine. Also I just loaded Edge and although it blocked the flash at first it at least gave me the option to turn it on.

 

So what has likely happened ? This must be new as I would have checked the sound clips less a week ago.

 

I am using a flash based audio MP3 player for samples of CDs my site sells. The module is obviously still working due to it working in Edge and on my friends Windows 7 PC.

 

Anything I can other than change them all to HTML5 ? Any idea why the sudden change ?

Edited September 11, 2017 by BlizzardUK (see edit history)

[Scully]

Are you joking? You use flash as the well-know source of unreliable and vlunerable codec to embedd sound files?

I'd guess the browser developers stopped this due to the vlunerability and don't allow it unless the browser is set up in a special way to still allow flash to play.

Edited September 11, 2017 by Scully (see edit history)

[BlizzardUK]

It is a Prestashop module that plays MP3 files, I now have 1000's of them on the site, setup in around 2013 before HTML5 was greatly used. The template I have is PS1.4 with lots of custom edits which cost a lot to pay for at the time. It is just a mom and pop type shop, 2 person. We are considering upgrading at the end of the year but with 1000s of sound clips it will be a huge task. Also it worked fine until now so thought nothing bad about it.

[Scully]

I think is a browser restriction - the newer the browsers the more likely they don't support flash anymore. Consider upgrading sooner. Without flash.