<div dir="ltr">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.<div><br></div><div>I'll be interested to see if anything useful stops working.</div><div><br></div><div>John</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 1:42 AM, Trevor Cordes <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:trevor@tecnopolis.ca" target="_blank">trevor@tecnopolis.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On 2016-02-04 John Lange wrote:<br>
> I haven't really been keeping up on such things, but haven't all the<br>
> major sites replaced flash with some kind of embedded HTML5<br>
> compatible video streaming? I thought the browsers tried that first,<br>
> then reverted to flash if necessary?<br>
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</span>No such luck. I'd say at least 75% of the videos embedded in ~50<br>
various news / blog sites I frequent don't play without flash. This is<br>
most frustrating when reading them on my Android phone. So much for<br>
HTML5 video (for now)...<br>
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For a Windows user I think Wyatt's / Mark's Chrome/Edge idea is best.<br>
No update fuss.<br>
<br>
Gnash is pretty much only good for viewing (most ancient) SWF files<br>
you've already downloaded from elsewhere. AFAIK it's not an in-browser<br>
thing.<br>
</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature">John Lange<br><a href="http://www.johnlange.ca" target="_blank">www.johnlange.ca</a></div>
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