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Google Chrome to Finally Beat Flash to Death With a Shovel: Why... Won't... You... Just... Die!

posted by cmn32480 on Friday August 12 2016, @09:31AM   Printer-friendly
from the take-it-out-back-and-shoot-it dept.

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?

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  • (Score: 2) by ledow on Friday August 12 2016, @01:47PM

    by ledow (5567) on Friday August 12 2016, @01:47PM (#387012) Homepage

    I think I reached the point several years ago where, when the content I want isn't available on the technology of the day, I don't bother to consume that content at all.

    The biggest thing that'll hit me here? I can't think of any.

    iPlayer has HTML5
    Amazon Instant Video has HTML5
    Google Play Movies has HTML5

    As such, there's at least good, if not 100%, support for any content I have or use regularly.

    I'd only be annoyed if I'd bought it when these services were Flash-only and I was to somehow lose it now they are going HTML5 but I don't think a large service would be able to survive stupid decisions like that.

    But everything else, that's always used proprietary plugins only? I don't touch them.

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  • (Score: 2) by Pino P on Saturday August 13 2016, @02:27AM

    by Pino P (4721) on Saturday August 13 2016, @02:27AM (#387330) Journal

    Most of Newgrounds, Albino Blacksheep, and Dagobah were still Flash last time I checked.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 13 2016, @11:43AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 13 2016, @11:43AM (#387462)

      Pornhub?