Chrome 76 Arrives With Flash Blocked By Default (venturebeat.com) 87
An anonymous reader shares a report from VentureBeat: Google today launched Chrome 76 for Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, and iOS. The release includes Adobe Flash blocked by default, Incognito mode detection disabled, multiple PWA improvements, and more developer features. You can update to the latest version now using Chrome's built-in updater or download it directly from google.com/chrome. Google has been taking baby steps to kill off Flash for years. In 2015, Chrome started automatically pausing less important Flash content. In 2016, Chrome started blocking "behind the scenes" Flash content and using HTML5 by default. In July 2017, however, Adobe said it would kill Flash by 2020. With Chrome 76, Flash is now blocked by default. Users can still turn it on in settings, but next year, Flash will be removed from Chrome entirely.
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HomeStar Runner was converted to videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]
Legacy games could always be run in an old browser in a VM.
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We've got all these tools now to replace Flash, with the glaring exception that there's really no good replacement for the vector graphics capability in Flash. Which is kind of funny since vector graphics was the original reason Flash was created.
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I wish there would be a legacy gaming fork to let the history internet games and legacy content live on.
This exists. It's called Windows.
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P-a-r-i-t-y is the state or condition of being equal.
P-u-r-i-t-y is freedom from adulteration or contamination.
Oh forget it. Sure, the hippo racing is every Tuesday night in Kings Cross. Come naked.
I always come naked.
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Vmware sucks then. They still (as of vcenter 6.7u2) do not have a *fully* functional vcenter client without flash. E.g., the html5 client does not display storage path info when adding storage, and with some crappy arrays (like what we've got), the path is the only way to tell one lun from another when adding multiple luns. With the html5 client, you can only add luns one at a time, and still be able to know which one you are working with.
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Yes, they need to fix that. Or I suppose as an EMC employee (make that Dell now), we need to fix that. It's embarrassing.
I'm just glad that after years of fighting with ADP's timesheet software, they finally switched away from Flash and Java solutions to a real HTML5 system that actually works two weeks in a row.
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The HTML5 vCenter UI should never have been released until it had functionality parity with the Flash UI. Seriously, the HTML5 UI is only just _barely_ useful for the most basic of tasks. :(
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Vmware sucks then.
Yes, now you're getting it.
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There's a ton of enterprise software, much of it embedded in hardware, that relies on Flash or Java.
My workaround for years, though, at least for identifying specific LUNs has been to make them "odd" sizes that are identifiable on the system mounting the LUN. The inability to determine on a host system which specific LUN of the 10 identically sized LUNs is the LUN you want.
I know of one project that went south over this problem, and I also faced a similar problem where it was 50/50 which LUN was which, and
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you have never used 'enterprise' software, have you?
some of that stuff still only works properly in IE.
yes, it's a sad state of affairs.
Flash isn't going anywhere (Score:1, Funny)
A fast, scalable, easy to use and code tool for websites. Gets some bad press occasionally but mostly from haters. I still routinely use it on my top clients' websites.
Deal with it.
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Deal with it.
Chrome has a 63% market share across all platforms. Your clients will have to deal with that.
My tattoo? It's German for "The Flash, The".
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Might want to consider updating your decade-out-of-date web skill set.
What everybody really wants is (Score:2)
What everybody really wants is turn off auto-playing audio/video ads/content when they visit a website. I hate quietly reading an article when some obnoxiously loud ad starts running.
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Firefox does it by default: https://support.mozilla.org/en... [mozilla.org]
But you can disable it in Chrome too, by just putting this into the URL bar: chrome://flags/#autoplay-policy and change the setting to what you want.
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Firefox disables the sound by default, not the video which to me is the most distracting part. Especially when douchbag site makes the video half the page and when I X out of it it just goes down to the corner and keeps fucking playing anyway.
Using a plugin now on all browsers to disable it but even that is hit or miss sometimes as sites do their damnedest to get around it. I block ads for this reason but asshole news websites think autoplaying their talking head videos is somehow not annoying.
Remember when Slashdot loved flash? (Score:2, Insightful)
You all were claiming the iPhone was dead because apple refused to allow Flash or Java run on their phone browser.
Goodness, how times have changed.
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I remember both.
Everyone already recognized that Flash was horrible, both as a resource hog and a security nightmare. But at the same time, everyone recognized that Flash was a vital part of many, many websites, and Apple's refusal to support it seemed extremely arrogant.
Now it looks like when they didn't include a floppy drive with the original iMac. It was the right decision, but many felt it was one product generation too soon. But with Flash, I don't know that we would have ever gotten rid of it if A
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I don't think Apple really cared about the technical merits of Flash, they cared about people being able to make apps for the iPhone that were not in the App Store. Flash would have let anyone make something very much like an app in the browser, cutting out Apple and their 30% cut, and bypassing the walled garden.
I'd say the real nail in the coffin was when Chrome made Flash disabled by default. A lot of web sites, including YouTube, were using Flash for video streaming. It offered easy DRM so was popular.
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Do you remember when the iPhone was a completely closed platform, and you weren't allowed to create software that ran on it, and Apple's solution was to just create a web app?
Yeah, that changed real quick.
Any hope for flash games? (Score:4, Interesting)
Is there a standalone flashplayer?
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"SWF File Player" works. I think VLC can play them too.
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HTML5 is a bunch of A-holes, that only look to APPLE for design thoughts.
That is called recursion...
Apple copies stuff off other people. A long standing practice.
The rest of industry carries on using them.
Apple sues them for stealing its ideas.
ZOMBO.COM (Score:2)
Can they fix google sync? (Score:1)
I has only worked on half my machines (intermittently, on and off for some) for the last four years. I dread upgrading my linux because google sync then stops working.
Google search on the subject unsurprisingly tries to sell you something else, or denies that they could ever get anything wrong ever, switch it on and off again.
I've been moving to firefox recently.
Goodbye Flash. (Score:1)
I have been waiting for this for years. Good riddance to bad rubbish, I say. Flash needed to die years ago.