Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:
By the end of the year, Google Chrome will block virtually all Flash content and make whatever's left click-to-play by default.
In September, Chrome 53 will kill off all background Flash content, which is about 90 per cent of Flash on the web, according to Google.
Then in December, Chrome 55 will use HTML5 for video, animations, games and similar stuff. If there is no HTML5 available and instead just Flash, you'll be asked to explicitly enable the Adobe plugin to view it.
This will pile immense pressure on web developers to use HTML5 and ditch Flash, because Chrome will deliberately stall the plugin's user experience.
It's effectively throwing Flash out into the cold winter's night. There is no more room at the inn. Google says it prefers HTML5 because it's faster to load than Flash and easier on handhelds' batteries. But the elephant in the room is Flash's dreadful security record: it is a screen door that lets the sewage of the internet seep in and infect computers.
Any Soylentils still have Flash installed on their systems? What keeps you from removing it?
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 12 2016, @10:58AM
doesn't administrating a remote vmware bare-metal hypervisor require you to install a client and FLASH(!) locally to able to setup / configure and maintain the remote hypervisor server (thru the lan/wan)?
also, i think the client works natyvely only on windblows ... the next to let go?
(Score: 3, Informative) by WizardFusion on Friday August 12 2016, @01:13PM
What you need is this VMware Fling - https://labs.vmware.com/flings/esxi-embedded-host-client [vmware.com]
It's a VIB that you can install that gives you a HTML5 client. It's quite good.
There is also a HTML5 client for vCenter that is currently shipped with vSphere 6 u2 (IIRC), but also downloadable for all vSphere 6 installations - https://labs.vmware.com/flings/vsphere-html5-web-client [vmware.com]
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 12 2016, @01:17PM
vmware are gpl violating scum. why would you even think it's an option?