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Re: Flash will be Completely Removed End of 2020.

Wed, Aug 21 2019 12:24 PM (11 replies)
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  • jeremygrogan
    22 Posts
    Fri, Aug 16 2019 10:09 AM

     

     

    Saying goodbye to Flash in ChromeAnthony Laforge

     

     

     

     

    Today, Adobe announced its plans to stop supporting Flash at the end of 2020.

    For 20 years, Flash has helped shape the way that you play games, watch videos and run applications on the web. But over the last few years, Flash has become less common. Three years ago, 80 percent of desktop Chrome users visited a site with Flash each day. Today usage is only 17 percent and continues to decline.

    This trend reveals that sites are migrating to open web technologies, which are faster and more power-efficient than Flash. They’re also more secure, so you can be safer while shopping, banking, or reading sensitive documents. They also work on both mobile and desktop, so you can visit your favorite site anywhere.

    These open web technologies became the default experience for Chrome late last year when sites started needing to ask your permission to run Flash. Chrome will continue phasing out Flash over the next few years, first by asking for your permission to run Flash in more situations, and eventually disabling it by default. We will remove Flash completely from Chrome toward the end of 2020.

    If you regularly visit a site that uses Flash today, you may be wondering how this affects you. If the site migrates to open web standards, you shouldn’t notice much difference except that you'll no longer see prompts to run Flash on that site. If the site continues to use Flash, and you give the site permission to run Flash, it will work through the end of 2020.

    It’s taken a lot of close work with Adobe, other browsers, and major publishers to make sure the web is ready to be Flash-free. We’re supportive of Adobe’s announcement today, and we look forward to working with everyone to make the web even better.

  • ScottHope
    10,012 Posts
    Fri, Aug 16 2019 2:32 PM

    That's not what I wanted to hear, where will Christmas go if they remove the end of 2020?

  • callaghan159
    6,214 Posts
    Fri, Aug 16 2019 3:30 PM

    ScottHope:
    where will Christmas go if they remove the end of 2020?


    Watch for Santa at  the unemployment office

  • TopShelf2010
    10,879 Posts
    Fri, Aug 16 2019 4:29 PM

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  • DoctorLarry
    4,275 Posts
    Sat, Aug 17 2019 1:24 AM

    jeremygrogan:
    Published Jul 25, 2017

    Do you have any citations older than 2 years?

  • donsprintr
    2,063 Posts
    Wed, Aug 21 2019 12:44 AM

    DoctorLarry:

    jeremygrogan:
    Published Jul 25, 2017

    Do you have any citations older than 2 years?

    That shows you how long it's been in the works. The part of the article that gets me is the part where he talks about the web being "flash free", as if flash is some disease, needing to be eradicated.

     

  • MGB01
    1,469 Posts
    Wed, Aug 21 2019 3:26 AM
    so when we loose flash....what do we need to do to play games ie.......do need to find browser that dont run it ?....really not sure how this works.....im sure scott can enlighten me lol
  • ScottHope
    10,012 Posts
    Wed, Aug 21 2019 4:18 AM

    The deadline (end of 2020) for flash is a fair way off yet Mickey. I think it best to wait for a bit to see if WGT make any kind of official statement about the flash version of the game.

  • MGB01
    1,469 Posts
    Wed, Aug 21 2019 5:27 AM
    wiseman scott......thx bud
  • ScottHope
    10,012 Posts
    Wed, Aug 21 2019 6:09 AM

    Cheers Mickey, I've got my alarm set for it...

    ...hehe.  : )

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