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YouTube Ditches Flash For HTML5 Video By Default

Posted by Soulskill on from the now-if-they-can-ditch-the-commenters dept.

An anonymous reader writes: YouTube today announced it has finally stopped using Adobe Flash by default. The site now uses its HTML5 video player by default in Google's Chrome, Microsoft's IE11, Apple's Safari 8, and in beta versions of Mozilla's Firefox browser. At the same time, YouTube is now also defaulting to its HTML5 player on the web. In fact, the company is deprecating the "old style" Flash object embeds and its Flash API, pointing users to the iFrame API instead, since the latter can adapt depending on the device and browser you're using.

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  1. Now if only... by msobkow · · Score: 4, Informative

    Now if only Bell Media/CTV here in Canada would do the same. They are the ONLY family of websites I know of that won't work with the Linux versions of Flash, complaining that you need an update because they check for the WINDOWS version numbers.

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    I do not fail; I succeed at finding out what does not work.
    1. Re:Now if only... by Zombie+Ryushu · · Score: 5, Informative

      I had that issue with Pogo Srabble, there are a few work arounds:

      1. Use a Hex editor and edit the Version number to one the site likes
      2. Use FreshPlayerPlugin with the Chromium version of Flash. That really does work.
      3. Use Google Chrome/Chromium.

  2. Re:About D%^& time. by kosmosik · · Score: 5, Informative

    > Now if google would just announce no more flash allowed in ads, we'd be set.

    If you are using Chrome you can set "Click to play" policy for all plugins in chrome://settings/content - as result you won't see any Flash ads (or any other plugins) without clicking on the placeholder. This way you get rid of Flash ads and it is also way more secure to just do not run plugins if you don't explicitly want to. You can also turn on plugins on a white list per site basis.

  3. Re:Adobe by epyT-R · · Score: 5, Informative

    Anyone dumb enough to depend on cloud services for critical workflow deserves what they get.

  4. their IDEs (revenue) switching to HTML5 by raymorris · · Score: 4, Informative

    Adobe doesn't sell the plugin, they sell their development tools. Those development tools are slowly being switched to html5, so Adobe's customers can continue to use them as always.

  5. Re:Anything like Flashblock for HTML5? by mojo-raisin · · Score: 4, Informative

    https://chrome.google.com/webs...

    Magic Actions for YouTube
    Check box the following:
            Stop Autoplay
            Don't stop when in a playlist
            Speed Booster - Better video preloading / buffering

  6. Re:So they've finally fixed Pause & Resume? by MartinD · · Score: 3, Informative

    I dunno, the HTML5 feature in my Chrome is so CPU intensive that html5 video stops & stutters constantly. I had to disable html5 in Chrome just to be able to use the utoobz HTML5 isn't old-hardware-friendly. Nevermind that Google keeps taking the useful (for me) features out of chrome.