![]() ![]() Google announced in 2017 that over the next three years Adobe Flash would be phased out of use. But that is coming to an end.īrowsers like Google Chrome are unplugging Flash. ![]() Odds are, there will still be name-brand sites then imploring their users to keep this plug-in just a little longer.Adobe Flash had a more than 20-year run as a major piece of multimedia software. That will be right after Google plans to disable Flash by default in Chrome, requiring users to enable that before giving a site Flash permissions that will themselves expire after each relaunch of the browser.Īnd by December of 2020, Google will remove Flash support entirely-aligning with the announced plans of Microsoft, Apple and Firefox developer Mozilla. Ron Wyden (D.-Ore.) sent a letter to the heads of the National Security Agency, the Department of Homeland Security and the National Institute for Standards and Technology (a branch of the Commerce Department) asking that they require federal agencies to remove all Flash-based content from their sites by Aug. The government can’t seem to let go of Flash either. Intuit now promises a fix: Mint plans “a revamp of the investments page that includes moving away from Flash in the coming months,” Intuit spokesperson Keri Danielski e-mailed. More: Total crock? Death via slow cooker like on 'This Is Us' remains unlikely More: From compact speakers to selfie sticks: Best gadgets you can find at the dollar store More: With Sirius behind it, can Pandora now stage a comeback? Likewise, Intuit’s personal-finance app still demands the Flash plug-in to show its stock charts even as almost every other stock-tracking site ( USA TODAY’s included) runs on HTML5. ![]() And American Airlines’ just-announced live TV relies on HTML5, spokesperson Joshua Freed e-mailed. “We are working with all of our current suppliers and evaluating use of HTML5 for viewing and playback of our Personal Device Entertainment offering,” United spokesperson Maggie Schmerin said in an e-mail. And Google, having spent years trying to secure Flash with such measures as confining that plug-in to a protected “sandbox” isolating its code, is now moving more aggressively than competing browser developers to shoo Flash into the sunset.Ĭhrome users, however, still must deal with sites that have yet to get the memo about Flash’s irrelevance, even as sites offering the same interactive features now provide them in Web-standard HTML5 code.įor example, Flash remains a requirement to watch most streaming entertainment in-flight in a browser on United Airlines. If that sounds like Google doesn’t want you using Flash: Yes, that’s exactly the point.Īdobe announced last July that it would stop updating Flash at the end of 2020, essentially agreeing with critics that Flash’s history of security flaws that require frequent patches had left it unredeemable. Each time you visit a site that requires Flash, you’ll have to click a “Click to enable Adobe Flash Player” button, then click an “Allow” button at the top-left corner of the browser to enable that content to play. This update to Chrome, released just after the 10th anniversary of that browser’s debut, requires you to grant a site permission to run that multimedia plug-in after each restart of Chrome. The latest version of Google’s Chrome browser doesn’t just bring a new, lighter look for its tabs: It also comes with a fresh set of handcuffs for Adobe’s Flash player.
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