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    No more Adobe Flash?

    This was published 25/07/2019:

    Today, Adobe announced its plans to stop supporting Flash at the end of 2020.

    For 20 years, Flash has helped shape the way that you play games, watch videos and run applications on the web. But over the last few years, Flash has become less common. Three years ago, 80 percent of desktop Chrome users visited a site with Flash each day. Today usage is only 17 percent and continues to decline.

    This trend reveals that sites are migrating to open web technologies, which are faster and more power-efficient than Flash. They’re also more secure, so you can be safer while shopping, banking, or reading sensitive documents. They also work on both mobile and desktop, so you can visit your favorite site anywhere.

    These open web technologies became the default experience for Chrome late last year when sites started needing to ask your permission to run Flash. Chrome will continue phasing out Flash over the next few years, first by asking for your permission to run Flash in more situations, and eventually disabling it by default. We will remove Flash completely from Chrome toward the end of 2020.

    If you regularly visit a site that uses Flash today, you may be wondering how this affects you. If the site migrates to open web standards, you shouldn’t notice much difference except that you'll no longer see prompts to run Flash on that site. If the site continues to use Flash, and you give the site permission to run Flash, it will work through the end of 2020.

    It’s taken a lot of close work with Adobe, other browsers, and major publishers to make sure the web is ready to be Flash-free. We’re supportive of Adobe’s announcement today, and we look forward to working with everyone to make the web even better.

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    And you can't file a return on the new eFiling website without enabling Flash...

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    Yes. Actually opening a form is impossible.

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    Good afternoon,

    Can anybody please advise me how to activate Adobe Flash on Chrome to enable me to open an ITR14 Tax Return?

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    To activate Flash for the website you are visiting -

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    Click on the lock icon in the URL bar.
    Click on site settings.
    Scroll down to Flash and change the setting.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dave A View Post
    To activate Flash for the website you are visiting -

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    Click on the lock icon in the URL bar.
    Click on site settings.
    Scroll down to Flash and change the setting.
    Good morning!

    Thank you! I can now open the IT14 and make SARS happy!

    Enjoy your day!

    Dirk

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    This whole overhaul of E-filing is due to Flash, my profiles still have not been merged into the HTML/new version, SARS stated in a SAICA seminar this is because they do not feel comfortable yet to transition those profiles the other day statements did not work in chrome and you had to go back to explorer just for statements, but everything is working again on chrome

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