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Google Devs Planning Flash's Demise With New 'HTML5 By Default' Chrome Setting (softpedia.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the phased-out dept.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Softpedia: In a Google Groups thread named "Intent to implement: HTML5 by Default," the Google developers announced initial plans to implement a new feature in the Chromium core that will disable the playback of Flash content by default, and use HTML5 instead, if available. The feature is scheduled to ship with Chromium builds in Q4 2016, according to the current timeline. To avoid "overprompting," a whitelist will allow ten major websites to continue to show Flash content by default without pestering users with "Allow domain.com to run Flash Player" prompts. The whitelist will be in effect one year only. The list includes the domains of YouTube, Facebook, Yahoo, VK, Live, Yandex, OK.ru, Twitch, Amazon, and Mail.ru, the biggest sites running Flash content today. Previews of the settings and prompts UI are also available.

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  1. Re:YouTube by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Informative

    YouTube works without Flash already. Just uninstall Flash and use a recently released browser.

  2. Re:Let's extend that idea by thegarbz · · Score: 3, Informative

    The optimial is to allow the user to open a series of tabs in a row, start buffering the videos, but not to play them.

    That is NOT optimal. If you're in a situation where you need to rely on buffering then buffering multiple videos at once just means that you can't actually watch anything anymore. Your connection that may have been able to play a smooth video with buffering now suddenly does nothing and you get to sit there for a few minutes waiting so you can hit the play button.

    That's a fantastic way to piss off users and lose them.