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When I try to get into my work website on my phone I get an error message say SM2 failed to start. Flash missing, blocked ore security error? How do I fix this?
iPhone 11, iOS 14
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When I try to get into my work website on my phone I get an error message say SM2 failed to start. Flash missing, blocked ore security error? How do I fix this?
iPhone 11, iOS 14
Adobe Flash is dead and gone.
If this website expects Flash Player, somebody missed the Adobe notifications of deprecation starting back in 2017.
What seems to be a payroll site requiring Flash was... inauspicious... given the long history of security issues with that product.
And Adobe Flash never existed for iPhone and iPad.
Either this apparent payroll service has a newer version underway (and unfortunately rather late), and/or has a different means of downloading that does not require Flash, and/or y’all may be probably be migrating to a different service.
Adobe Flash is dead and gone.
If this website expects Flash Player, somebody missed the Adobe notifications of deprecation starting back in 2017.
What seems to be a payroll site requiring Flash was... inauspicious... given the long history of security issues with that product.
And Adobe Flash never existed for iPhone and iPad.
Either this apparent payroll service has a newer version underway (and unfortunately rather late), and/or has a different means of downloading that does not require Flash, and/or y’all may be probably be migrating to a different service.
The site use to work on my iPhone than one day it started coming up with this error. I didn’t think that it would have to do with my work but now I see that it probably is so I guess I will be calling tech support to see how they can fix this issue.
ChrisJ4203 wrote:
The iPhone has never supported Flash, so I'm not sure why not having Flash could all of a sudden been a problem. I wonder if your work made some other changes to the site.
Guess: the website is probably browser-sniffing, and may be mis-detecting iOS as macOS.
How to properly browser sniff has changed in recent years. Some websites haven’t caught up.
Recent Safari on iOS, iPadOS, and macOS are deliberately presenting more generic browser data—as are other browsers across most or all other platforms—to make user tracking more difficult.
These privacy changes can then confuse some websites due to some assumptions made in those websites’ older browser-sniffing implementations.
Which might cause an iPhone to be mis-detected as a Mac, and a prompt for now-deprecated Flash triggered.
In any case, Adobe Flash is dead, and whatever dependencies on Adobe Flash that this website might have will need to be reworked by the website maintainers.
Ask your company.
I don’t believe this is a company issue but thanks. I have googled it and it seems that Nobody has flash player anymore so I will have to find another way to get my paystubs.
Correct.
Flash is dead.
Is there something else that is being used it in its place?
HTML page code on their server.
Ok thank you
Ok thanks I will have to call my work and see what needs to done it never used to be this way than one day I got this error message.
The iPhone has never supported Flash, so I'm not sure why not having Flash could all of a sudden been a problem. I wonder if your work made some other changes to the site.
Agreed. I'm guessing it is much more than a Flash error.
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