Kill Flash: Facebook

Excellent news...
tired of that bloatware on my machines.... that forever needs updating because somehow it always has vulns
 
Hopefully Chrome does the same thing soon. That will drastically accelerate the death of Flash.
 
Garyvdh said:
Who cares where it comes from as long as it works in my browser.
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You should care. Flash is a huge security vulnerability, it negatively affects performance, it tends to run in the background even when not needed, it requires separate updating, it's not universally supported, it's an issue on mobile more often than not etc. There are only downsides and no upsides.
 
Tons and tons of online games currently use Flash to run. You want to tell me all these companies are now going to have to back to the drawing board?
 
Drifter said:
Tons and tons of online games currently use Flash to run. You want to tell me all these companies are now going to have to back to the drawing board?
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Yeah they will. For a while such websites will just tell their users to manually enable Flash, but Flash will become an even bigger security vulnerability once it's abandoned through disuse and will eventually be altogether blocked from having anything to do with up-to-date browsers.

Also, moving away from Flash is a far cry from going back to the drawing board.
 
Thought we killed it off long ago?
 
Bryn said:
Yeah they will. For a while such websites will just tell their users to manually enable Flash, but Flash will become an even bigger security vulnerability once it's abandoned through disuse and will eventually be altogether blocked from having anything to do with up-to-date browsers.

Also, moving away from Flash is a far cry from going back to the drawing board.
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Most browser type games depends on you having the latest Flash Player installed in order to run properly. How will they get past this?
 
Drifter said:
Most browser type games depends on you having the latest Flash Player installed in order to run properly. How will they get past this?
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That is on your end, not the developers end. Any dev that can't manage without Flash should do the world a favour and never code anything again.
 
Drifter said:
Tons and tons of online games currently use Flash to run. You want to tell me all these companies are now going to have to back to the drawing board?
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Yes and they can learn to code properly for a start
 
Battery drain with Chrome/Flash on windows is something to behold. I'm looking at you Deezer :(
 
Bryn said:
You should care. Flash is a huge security vulnerability, it negatively affects performance, it tends to run in the background even when not needed, it requires separate updating, it's not universally supported, it's an issue on mobile more often than not etc. There are only downsides and no upsides.
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Sorry, you misunderstood me. I meant who cares if it changes for something else, as long as it works.
Youtube changed to HTML5 earlier this year and most users didn't even notice the change.
 
Garyvdh said:
Sorry, you misunderstood me. I meant who cares if it changes for something else, as long as it works.
Youtube changed to HTML5 earlier this year and most users didn't even notice the change.
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Users will notice a difference though. Flash is terrible for hardware and the overall user experience. Moving away from Flash is a big step for the web. In an ideal world, changing standards happens purely behind the scenes.

Thor187 said:
I though apple killed it in 2007 already
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No, they just greatly inconvenienced their users.
 
Yeah nice one facebook. All your videos are still played on flash unless using the mobile site. Fail
 
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