Why aren't Flash or Java plugins detected?

Updated at: Oct 12, 2024

Adobe's Flash Browser Plugin and Oracle's Java Browser Plugin are both very old pieces of software; In fact, they are so old that modern web browser's don't support running them at all. As such, if you go to our Flash detection or Java detection tools, you will find that they don't detect the plugins in your browser.

Other than choosing to run a very old web browser, on a very old Operating System so that the ancient plugins can still work, there's nothing that can be done about this. Fortunately, modern websites have also stopped requiring Flash or Java to work, so you shouldn't need to worry about having these plugins installed in your browser any way.

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