Modern or Non-deprecated way to detect flash player with js/jquery?

Question

First of all, sorry for ressurrecting this question here. I\'ve been trying for two days how to reach this job using javascript/jquery and i think i\'ve read all stack overf

Answer 1

You can get an array which contains all installed plugins of a browser like this:

var plugins = navigator.plugins;

Then you can then check if the array contains the flash plugin.

From https://developer.mozilla.org/de/docs/Web/API/NavigatorPlugins/plugins:

function getFlashVersion() {
   var flash = navigator.plugins.namedItem('Shockwave Flash');
   if (typeof flash != 'object') {
      // flash is not present
      return undefined;
   }
   if(flash.version){ 
     return flash.version;
   } else {
     //No version property (e.g. in Chrome)
     return flash.description.replace(/Shockwave Flash /,"");
  }
}