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End of Flash? Its Usage Among Chrome Users Has Declined From 80% in 2014 to Under 8% as of Early 2018 (bleepingcomputer.com)

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the good-riddance dept.

An anonymous reader writes: The percentage of daily Chrome users who've loaded at least one page containing Flash content per day has gone down from around 80% in 2014 to under 8% in early 2018. These statistics on Flash's declining numbers were shared with the public by Parisa Tabriz, Director of Engineering at Google, one of the Google bigwigs in charge of Chrome's security. Google plans to ship Flash disabled-by-default with Chrome 76 (July 2019) and remove it completely in Chrome 87 (December 2020).

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  1. Re:Still required by public schools in the US by acroyear · · Score: 5, Informative

    We're hitting the same issue, where the schools are currently dependent on learning games written in flash. Also my kid's favorite "safe" game platform is Friv, and they run on flash as well.

    Then there's the entire kids programming language Scratch from MIT, which still does not have a non-flash version online (a download, yeah, but it uses adobe air I think, so there we go - still has a flash-based runtime).

    So there's still work to go to get rid of it, and unfortunately these types of sites don't have the financial resources to go and rewrite everything they have, as opposed to some huge corporate website that just needed to replace their splash screen with something less obnoxious.

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  2. Re:likely .... by cyberchondriac · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Been there already. I was out in the field, my laptop wouldn't open Vcenter because of the Flash BS.
    Fortunately I could do what I needed to do (shut down VMs) with the HTML5 version, which is still quite limited.

    Death to Flash, and Death to Java too, while we're at it.
    Java is like the new DLL hell with compatibility/security issues.
    I hate how the industry forced us into using browsers as management utilities, and got rid of the solidly working dedicated applications that worked well before under the guise of, "Now you can easily manage xyz from any workstation and no installation necessary!!". Used car salesmen are more truthful.
    Hopefully HTML5 actually backs up some of this promise.

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