# Detect if flash player is disabled

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/detect-if-flash-player-is-disabled/325137>\
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**Created:** [September 28, 2011, 2:49am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/detect-if-flash-player-is-disabled/325137 "2011-09-28T02:49:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![grass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/96bed5/32.png) [@grass](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/grass)\
**Post date:** [September 28, 2011, 2:49am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/detect-if-flash-player-is-disabled/325137/1 "2011-09-28T02:49:37Z")

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Hi guys,

ran into a sticky situation the other day where a douchebag anti shockwave moron showed me our shh doesn’t work: we obviously detect if flashplayer X.X exists and we do print some html mirror accordingly but for some, idiotic I might say, reason, if it is there and it is disabled, the detections still return true - well who the heck wants to know that then, ah? totally a case of sour grapes I might say - yes, it is there, but yeah well it’s useless…

so anyhow - web’s full of gr8 workarounds for detection etc… is there an actual proper reliable code to detect no flash, even if it’s disabled?!

dear Adobe, c’mon - think!!! the idea is “detection of flash capabilities” - disabled means… well look around and find the guy who thinks disabled is capable 😉