Google is about to begin transitioning their users away from Flash, unless they explicitly enable it on a site-by-site basis. This is a step beyond click-to-activate, which refuses to activate the plug-in until the user permits it, that will not even acknowledge the plug-in’s existence unless the user requests it. The difference is that this tells sites to treat the browser as not having Flash, which, for PC Perspective as an example, should load our HTML5 article carousel instead of presenting a click-to-activate Flash one that has an expanding oval transition animation.
Because changes like these could have side-effects, Google is dipping their toe before jumping in. About 1% of users on the current Chrome 55 (and ~50% of Chrome 56 pre-release users) will have this change flipped on any day now, which contains the outrage if it breaks something popular or, otherwise, causes user grief. If it all goes well, though, it will be enabled for everyone when Chrome 56 arrives for the general public in February.
Now, if they could just bring
Now, if they could just bring back the setting to turn off Autoplay on those darn HTML5 clips on web pages.
What about AMD’s new horizon
What about AMD’s new horizon event! Adobe Flash Only streaming event! I’m not about to install that Adobe Flash pawning vector on my computer! I waited until there where HTML5 encoded copies available to watch! Google can not get rid of Flash soon enough! Ad blocking software stops that autoplay crap also!
Is there any way to get rid
Is there any way to get rid of that “activate flash” box and get the html5 version of your animation, outside of using Chrome?
Completely disabling Flash in
Completely disabling Flash in Firefox/etc. would do that, too. If there's no Flash to be found, it will use the HTML5 version. It will say "Flash Player not detected" and give a link to download it, though. We're aware of the current limitations of our site lol.
Another nail in FlashPLayer’s
Another nail in FlashPLayer’s coffin. C’mon Adobe, do the honorable thing and announce the end of FlashPLayer.
#DieFlashPlayerDie