{"id":175459,"date":"2016-08-10T16:09:57","date_gmt":"2016-08-10T14:09:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=175459"},"modified":"2016-08-10T16:12:55","modified_gmt":"2016-08-10T14:12:55","slug":"chrome-will-start-to-block-flash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/175459-chrome-will-start-to-block-flash.html","title":{"rendered":"Chrome will start to block Flash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google\u2019s Chrome browser will de-emphasise Flash in favour of HTML5, which gives users\u00a0improved security, reduced power consumption, and faster page load times.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/chrome.googleblog.com\/2016\/08\/flash-and-chrome.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Google\u2019s Anthony LaForge, curator of Flash in Chrome, said<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0more than 90% of Flash on the web loads behind the scenes to support things like page analytics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis kind of Flash slows you down, and starting this September, Chrome 53 will begin to block it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>HTML5 is lighter and faster, and publishers are switching over to speed up page loading and save users battery life.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019ll see an improvement in responsiveness and efficiency for many sites,\u201d said Google.<\/p>\n<p>In December, Chrome 55 will make HTML5 the default experience, except for sites which only support Flash.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor those, you\u2019ll be prompted to enable Flash when you first visit the site.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Chrome<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/174614-chrome-52-for-android-released.html\"><strong>Chrome 52 for Android released<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadcasting\/169793-google-chrome-bug-makes-it-easier-to-copy-netflix-movies.html\"><strong>Google Chrome bug makes it easier to copy Netflix movies<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starting next month, Google Chrome will begin to block Flash in favour of HTML5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":73790,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[36,1567,2558,167],"class_list":["post-175459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-active","tag-chrome","tag-flash","tag-google"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175459"}],"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=175459"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":175471,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175459\/revisions\/175471"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}