Flash Will Soon Be 'Click-To-Run' in Microsoft Edge (bleepingcomputer.com)
Microsoft is following in the footsteps of other browser makers such as Apple, Google, and Mozilla, and says that upcoming Edge browser versions will favor HTML5 over Flash by default. From a report on BleepingComputer: "Sites that support HTML5 will default to a clean HTML5 experience," Microsoft said today. "In these cases, Flash will not even be loaded, improving performance, battery life, and security." On sites where Flash is needed, users will be prompted using a popup like the one seen below. Edge will ask users only once, and the browser will remember the user's choice for subsequent visits. Microsoft has already pushed these changes to Edge users on Windows Insiders builds. Regular Windows users will receive this update in the coming weeks.
...when I want to log into my Microsoft sites, like OneDrive
but on older devices, Flash media playback is faster. So much so that I can still watch Youtube videos fullscreen on my older Atom-powered netbook with Flash, when the HTML5 player is choppy and horrible in Firefox. If only they made it a tad faster just for fullscreen video playback, I'd uninstall Flash in a jiffy. But it's not gonna happen. Still, while I can, I'm holding onto Flash just for that, because my netbook ain't fast but it works fine.
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
Flash has always been a disease. A secondary infection that enables a shockwave delivered pozzing of your machine. It is the HIV of the internet. This analogy is infinitely extensible.
Captcha: echelon. I have no regrets.
The problem with Edge is there is no plugin mechanism to block ads. If someone developed a way to use hosts files to block ads I would use that. Anyone ever heard of anything like that?
You have to beg for the flash if you want it.
Yet again, let's upgrade the whole OS to get new features in the browser!
Be or ben't
Who would have thought that "click to activate and use this control" was a feature rather than a patent troll evasion tactic.
If I embed my flash game in an HTML5 page, then Edge will not load it, but if I embed it in an HTML 4.1 page, then it will?
Sure. Is Stephen King dead too? Troll!
I am running Windows 10 on my gaming box.
I launched Firefox (my main web browser still) as normal and I got a little tooltip thing stating that Edge is some % safer than Firefox against "social engineering attacks" WTF does that mean?
I launch Chrome (used for Netflix and other streaming) and get the same message with a different (lower) % safer tooltip.
Dually noted MS... thanks /rolleyes
My eyes reflect the stars and a smile lights up my face.
I'd rather suffer a million Firefoxes than anything coming from Google.
what an idiot, almost all of firefox development was funded by google
The prompt asks "Do you want to run Flash for this site..." [paraphrased]
Ideally it should show a prompt or marker at the spot(s) on the page where the Flash markup is. Otherwise, it's hard to know what you are confirming, and you are confirming every Flash reference on the page once you confirm.
You may enable it to view a video, for example, but could also be opening up Flash spam on the side. Spammers will master this trick of baiting. Page-level confirmation is too course a confirmation granularity.
Table-ized A.I.
Actually, he is best known for those damn annoying Optima Tax Relief commercials!
...cuts faster!
This abomination should be killed once and for all.
After all, copying is in their genes.
Hey Microsoft, 2005 just called and congratulated you for all the innovation and stuff.
Just cruising through this digital world at 33 1/3 rpm...
This post will be hugely unpopular to the point of me being called stupid or moronic, but I'm gonna spell it out anyways.
Even today HTML5 is nowhere near feature complete, fast and reliable as Adobe Flash is. In many ways ActionScript is better than JavaScript. Adobe Flash has powerful tools of dealing with streaming video/audio (including realtime bandwidth tuning), fast forwarding/rewinding and setting various video attributes. It's a lot easier to create complete solutions using Adobe Flash than to create a mishmash of SVGs, JavaScript, HTML, CSS and media. Adobe Flash just plays video/audio formats it's intended to play, vs. the dreaded HTML5 message, "Your browser doesn't support this media type" specially on platforms other than Windows. Adobe Flash, at least on Windows, seamlessly accelerates video decoding and rendering vs for instance royalty free VP9 codec which drains your battery several times faster because it's decoded using only the CPU.
I have yet to see a library of rich content HTML5 games vs. literally thousands of Adobe Flash games which could be run on ancient hardware vs. modern web browsers which require at least a gig of RAM and a fast multicore CPU to render HTML5 demos.
Adobe Flash has always been awful in regard to security but for what it's worth it's still indispensable.
I'm sure the 7 people who use Microsoft Edge probably care. To the rest of the universe, this is non-news. :)
Yes, Microsoft, very "innovative"... (*derisive snort*)
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Since 2004
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-...
For other browsers and platforms too
'nuf said
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Less power/cpu/ram + IO use vs. DNS/routers/addons/antivirus (slows you) + less security issues/complexity.
Compliments firewalls (blocking less used IP addys vs. hosts blocking more used domains) & DNS (lightens dns load).
Gets data via 10 security sites.
(Only fools use Windows 10 though)
APK
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APK
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ClarityRay defeats it
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AdBlock's SLOWER: http://superuser.com/questions...
UBlock can't do these as well as (or @ all) hosts do 4 speed, security, & reliability:
1.) Protect vs. bad sites (past ads)
2.) Protect vs. fastflux botnet C&C's
3.) Protect vs. dyndns botnet C&C's
4.) Protect vs. DGA botnet C&C's
5.) Protect vs. downed DNS (reliability)
6.) Protect vs. DNS poisoned dns
7.) Protect vs. trackers
8.) Protect vs. spam payloads
9.) Protect vs. phish payloads
10.) Protect vs. caps
11.) Get past dns blocks
12.) Keep off dns request logs
13.) Speed up 2 ways (adblocks/hardcodes)
14.) Work on anything webbound multiplatform.
15.) Ez data edit
16.) Block ads more efficiently in cpu/ram/I-O use
17.) UBlock now uses hosts (no DNS benefits vs. dns issues) - poor imitation = "sincerest form of flattery"
Hosts = native vs. illogically "Bolting on 'MoAr'" & not ClarityRay blockable like addons.
APK
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Ads rob speed, security (malvertising) & privacy (tracking).
Hosts add speed (hardcodes/adblocks), security (bad sites/poisoned dns), reliability (dns down), & anonymity (dns requestlogs/trackers) natively.
Works vs. caps & PUSH ads.
Avg. page = big as Doom http://www.theregister.co.uk/2... & ads = 40% of it.
Hosts != ClarityRay blockable (vs. souled-out to admen inferior wasteful redundant slow usermode addons)
Less power/cpu/ram + IO use vs. DNS/routers/addons/antivirus (slows you) + less security issues/complexity.
Compliments firewalls (blocking less used IP addys vs. hosts blocking more used domains) & DNS (lightens dns load).
Gets data via 10 security sites.
APK
P.S. - Safe https://www.virustotal.com/en/... (Verified by Malwarebytes' S. Burn "seen the code & it's safe" http://forum.hosts-file.net/vi... )
They are doing a thing, so this must be EEE!!!
Nevermind it's something that we applaud when others do!
Nevermind that it's in favor of open standards rather than closed source!
Micro$oft did it, therefore it is bad. Let me just move these goalposts to prove my (new) point.
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"AlmostALLAdsBlocked" = inferior, inefficient & 'souled-out' to admen NOT doing the 1 job it had due to bribery doing less & using more crippled by default https://tech.slashdot.org/comm...
UBlock's = inferior poor imitation doing less & uses more https://tech.slashdot.org/comm...
APK
P.S.=> Hosts run 1st (default 1st resolver part of IP stack vs. addons or in-browser filters like pac files)? Hosts override weaknesses of PAC files above... apk
I silenced each of them w/ my replies - they can't validly technically prove my points in response to their posts wrong.
* FACT!
(You FAIL as always unidentifiable truly cowardly do-nothing "ne'er-do-well" worm... lol!)
APK
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