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

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday September 1, 2015 @10:42AM 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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Re:How does it know by taustin · 2015-09-01 11:16 · Score: 3, Insightful

So this is an incentive to make the most annoying ad the largest Flash crap on the screen, then.
Re:How does it know by phantomfive · 2015-09-01 12:33 · Score: 3, Insightful

Why only Flash? This would be a sensible approach for *all* animated content, "important" or otherwise.
Because Google isn't trying to get rid of animated content, they are trying to get rid of Flash.

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