Given that most of those sites use it for pop-up ads that auto-play with sound that are highly annoying; I've decided to do my part and disable flash entirely in Chrome.
I'll be interested to see if anything useful stops working.
John
On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 1:42 AM, Trevor Cordes trevor@tecnopolis.ca wrote:
On 2016-02-04 John Lange wrote:
I haven't really been keeping up on such things, but haven't all the major sites replaced flash with some kind of embedded HTML5 compatible video streaming? I thought the browsers tried that first, then reverted to flash if necessary?
No such luck. I'd say at least 75% of the videos embedded in ~50 various news / blog sites I frequent don't play without flash. This is most frustrating when reading them on my Android phone. So much for HTML5 video (for now)...
For a Windows user I think Wyatt's / Mark's Chrome/Edge idea is best. No update fuss.
Gnash is pretty much only good for viewing (most ancient) SWF files you've already downloaded from elsewhere. AFAIK it's not an in-browser thing.