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Chrome 69 is Coming: Not Just a New Look But Flash's Life is About To Get Even Harder (zdnet.com)
Google's curvy tab Material Design update for Chrome will arrive in version 69 of the browser due out in September. From a report: Google flags the upcoming changes in its Enterprise release notes for Chrome 69, which gives a brief mention under browser interface changes to a "new design across all operating systems." Chrome 69, penciled in for stable release on September 4, will also get native Windows 10 notifications, which have been rolling out to users over the past month. Chrome 69 will also progress the long-running project to deprecate Flash Player, which Adobe has announced will reach end of life in 2020. Microsoft, Mozilla, and Apple have similar deprecation timelines for Flash on their desktop browsers. Once ubiquitous, Flash content is now hardly used at all by Chrome users, though Google won't fully remove support until Chrome 87 in 2020. At present, if a user enables Flash for a particular site, they don't need to approve it if they visit the site again. However, in Chrome 69, every time users restart Chrome, they'll need to give permission for sites to use Flash.
Fuck Google!
Flash was good for its time, but its time was long ago.
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Native Windows 10 notifications is a plague and another way to spam the user. Worse than pop-ups.
18 states position on Chrome 69 is it is illegal
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Nice new look and probably the right time to make Flash usage more difficult.
Here are the technical updates in M69: https://blog.chromium.org/
- New CSS features
- Some new APIs including a new Keyboard API that looks like it will be useful for games
- Improvements to service workers
- And more
Looks like a good update.
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There has to be a mode that can be globally to whitelist domains in an easy fashion for corporate users. As for the end users. Here lies the problem. They cannot rely on just a pop up to "allow". At minimum, the user will have to always allow once. o wait thats what the article says. Im smart. Anyway, this should also apply to Java.
You are not a teenage babysitter, so don't treat me like a child. It's annoying.
Guess I'll be pinning my current version of Chrome until the flash-reliant sites I visit finally switch to something else.
:)
I wonder why you keep using Chrome. No, not you, the person who plays the browser connoiseur so everyone can be impressed, but everyone else who just needs _any_ browser. Why do you pick the one with spyware?
It's like 69, except you also have two fingers up your ass.
There is a line between keeping users safe and essentially singling out a technology for destruction.
However, in Chrome 69, every time users restart Chrome, they'll need to give permission for sites to use Flash.
Google is more or less deciding that anyone delivering anything with flash will not be permitted to give their users a good experience. Some would argue singling out the flash and java plugins for special treatment at all crossed this line; though I would argue gross negligence on the part of Adobe and Sun/Oracle kinda forced that.
I really doubt flash would have been killed off so soon if Apple had not started an outright attack on it and Google and Mozilla having not decided to pile on.
Chrome is malware - there are no two ways about it and Google is abusive. Consumers would do well to not reward them for abuse. Don't run Chrome - period. Its evil.
Repeal the 17th Amendment TODAY! Also Please Read http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html
First Chrome, now also Skype, realizes that I type in english, underlines what is wrong, but does not use the english dictionary fro spelling correction ...
Every Mac application, uses the build in text input system, which automatically realizes which language I use and offers spelling correction with the appropriated dictionary, but Chrome must roll its own inferior version, and Skype is even worth.
Cost free eBook I read (by iBook/Kobo/Amazon/ObookO/Gutenberg etc.): "The Green Odyssey" by Philip Jose Farmer.
Why the fuck should oral sex be illegal?
if they can try to kill HTTP right away, why not kill flash? Flash is a greater threat to the web.
So guess what I'll be changing? The browser.
Ideally, you'll be using one frozen version of one browser to view the few sites that use Flash Player and a different browser to view the vast majority of sites that use HTML. Would this be an acceptable use paradigm for most people who need to work regularly with legacy Flash sites?
I know there are cyles in all things, but I thought extreme radi were permanently a thing of the 90's... that much radius on all UI elements doesn't seem either visually functional _or_ space efficient, it's a lose-lose, what the hell are they doing.
Doesn't Google Hangouts still require flash to access your microphone?
But Flash's Life is About To Get Even Harder
Superman is back to being able to run as fast as him now.
(-1: Post disagrees with my already-settled worldview) is not a valid mod option.
Remember when all of you said the iPhone was dead because Jobs nixed Flash support?
it's 69 dudes!
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Flash was good for its time, but its time was long ago.
The only thing flash was good for were sites like Joe Cartoon. Otherwise it was abused from day one by marketing assholes and flash only sites.
The best selling point about the original iPhone was that it didn't support flash, unfortunately it was AT&T only.
Look, if I want to enable Flash content on some sites (usually internal) why are you fighting me and making my life harder? I already said to allow it. If you don't allow me to add a permanent exception, you're a dick.
Your ad here. Ask me how!
I'm a fan of the "68". You do me and I owe you one.
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That's all I ever hear coming from trumps cell next to mine.
- Michael Cohen
flash down, java(script) to go
Trump gon be Tyrone's little white bitch.
Why the fuck
You answered your own question. The USA has long been one of the more religiously-conservative countries outside of the Middle East. It's gotten much more liberal over the last century, but there are still a lot of old laws that reflect the beliefs of many evangelicals who still have a lot of power (the current Vice President being among them) that the only biblically-allowed sex is between man and wife for the express purpose of having children. Any other type of sex is a 'perversion of God's design,' and they're considered some of the greatest offenses against God. Older western religions have always had strict control over sex, and place great great emphasis on the importance of only having the right sort of sex. 18th and 19th century laws codified these religious beliefs into law, and it wasn't until 2003 when Lawrence vs. Texas invalidated state laws outlawing various types of private consensual sex.
Seriously? There's no way this title wasn't thought out. LOL! :D
once again google devs piss off users.
Dinner for Two!
Flash games were a HUGE part of my childhood, (Neopets, AndKon, Armor Games) will there be efforts to preserve some of these after the 2020 death day?
It's like the article was excited about the name/number and wanted to say Chrome 69 as many times as possible.
Chrome 69.
noice