{"id":161054,"date":"2016-04-08T09:32:55","date_gmt":"2016-04-08T07:32:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=161054"},"modified":"2016-04-08T09:34:30","modified_gmt":"2016-04-08T07:34:30","slug":"microsoft-edge-browser-to-block-flash-ads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/161054-microsoft-edge-browser-to-block-flash-ads.html","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Edge browser to block Flash ads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.windows.com\/msedgedev\/2016\/04\/07\/putting-users-in-control-of-flash\/\" target=\"_blank\">has announced<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0it will change the way its new Edge browser handles Flash content.<\/p>\n<p>With the <a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/160050-big-windows-10-anniversary-update-coming-soon.html\"><strong>Anniversary Update to Windows 10<\/strong><\/a>, Microsoft Edge will detect content that isn\u2019t central to a web page and auto-pause it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeripheral content like animations or advertisements built with Flash will be displayed in a paused state unless the user explicitly clicks to play that content,\u201d said Microsoft.<\/p>\n<p>It said this reduces power consumption and improves performance, while preserving the full fidelity of the page.<\/p>\n<p>Flash content that is central to the page, like video and games, will not be paused.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft said testers on its Windows Insider programme can preview this feature starting with Windows 10 build 14316.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"related\">More on Windows 10<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/160394-what-the-start-menu-will-look-like-in-the-windows-10-anniversary-update.html\"><strong>What the Start Menu will look like in the Windows 10 Anniversary Update<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/160050-big-windows-10-anniversary-update-coming-soon.html\"><strong>Big Windows 10 Anniversary update coming soon<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/smartphones\/159003-the-windows-phones-that-can-get-windows-10-mobile.html\"><strong>The Windows Phones that can get Windows 10 Mobile<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following in Chrome\u2019s footsteps, Edge will make Flash ads click-to-play.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":125354,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[36,123,30102,26970],"class_list":["post-161054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-active","tag-microsoft","tag-microsoft-edge","tag-windows-10"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161054"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161054"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":161058,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161054\/revisions\/161058"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}