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Chrome 45 Launches, Automatically Pauses Less Important Flash Content, Like Ads

Posted by Soulskill on from the hip-hip-hooray dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Google today launched Chrome 45 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android with some expected changes and new developer tools. First and foremost, Chrome now automatically pauses less important Flash content (rolling out gradually, so be patient). This has been a longtime coming from both Google and Adobe, with the goal to make Flash content more power-efficient in Chrome: In March, a setting was introduced to play less Flash content on the page, but it wasn't turned on by default, and in June, the option was enabled in the browser's beta channel. Now it's being turned on for everyone.

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  1. Re:How does it know by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    After first largest SWF (so SECOND largest flash element) if you're under 298x(forgot dimension) and a swf, you're paused.

    It's not a complicated algorithm, it's just not been released through public channels yet.

  2. In other news by jbmartin6 · · Score: 3, Informative

    Amazon banned Flash on their ad networks.

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