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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: 3, Insightful) by esperto123 on Friday August 12 2016, @11:44AM
I still prefer flash on youtube over HTML5, mainly because I can use flashblock add-on and not have the 30+ youtube tabs that I have queued up on my browser start downloading and autoplaying at the same time EVERY TIME I open the browser.
As far as I know there is no similar add-on for HTML5 content.
Except for that, flash should have died a fiery death long ago, together with java plugins
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 12 2016, @12:36PM
Youtube fixed that. Now videos never start on page load.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 12 2016, @01:09PM
Youtube is not the only video website in the world.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 12 2016, @07:15PM
Pale Moon [palemoon.org] (the Firefox-derived non-stupid browser) recently added some about:config options to allow users to force their autoplay preferences over pages containing HTML5 video served by remote sites such as youtube.
I believe the new key piece was "media.autoplay.allowscripted", to supplement the existing "media.autoplay.enabled", except that the former does what most humans expected the latter to do. Set them both to "disabled" and HTML5 sites never autoplay media.
(Score: 1) by Francis on Friday August 12 2016, @02:27PM
You do realize that there are addons to prevent that, right? My clips will play like a half second before being automatically paused until I get around to clicking play.
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Friday August 12 2016, @02:35PM
You're using Chrome, then? Firefox by default only loads the active tab when you reopen a multitab session. It loads the rest if and when you switch to them, and has had this feature for years now.
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Friday August 12 2016, @02:37PM
D'oh! User commenting on a story about Chrome is probably using Chrome. News at 11 :P
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Friday August 12 2016, @06:48PM
So I can't comment on a Chrome article, which kinda defines the trends for other browsers, because I prefer not to have Google stare at all my browsing?
By the way, I set my firefox to load all the tabs before I click on them (opposite of the default), because people don't know how to code small pages, and I don't want to wait a few seconds (or a lot of seconds on bad hotel connections) every time I get to an unread tab.