Adobe to pull plug on Flash, ending an era

[endicom]

OANN
Salvador Rodriguez
July 25, 2017

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Adobe Systems Inc’s Flash, a once-ubiquitous technology used to power most of the media content found online, will be retired at the end of 2020, the software company announced Tuesday.

Adobe, along with partners Apple Inc, Microsoft Corp, Alphabet Inc’s Google, Facebook Inc and Mozilla Corp, said support for Flash will ramp down across the internet in phases over the next three years.

After 2020, Adobe will stop releasing updates for Flash and web browsers will no longer support it. The companies are encouraging developers to migrate their software onto modern programming standards.

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[Oceander]

About time. 

[Sighlass]

Final nail in my XP OS... XP does not support HTML5... Plus all my video streaming sites use Flash so now it will put a big dent in my ability to save movies to my computer for free.

  

[Wingnut]

Final nail in my XP OS... XP does not support HTML5... Plus all my video streaming sites use Flash so now it will put a big dent in my ability to save movies to my computer for free.

  

HTML5 sucks ON NEW SYSTEMS.  It auto plays on every site. 

[Polly Ticks]

It auto plays on every site.

Pet peeve.  I hate that with a fiery passion.

[DB]

I keep the sound muted on my computer these days...

[endicom]

Final nail in my XP OS... XP does not support HTML5...

For you.




Does it matter if XP supports HTML5 or is it just the browser?

[Wingnut]

Pet peeve.  I hate that with a fiery passion.

   It must die.

[roamer_1]

Does it matter if XP supports HTML5 or is it just the browser?

It's the browser. There is no html5 browser for XP...

[UnwashedPeasant]

Final nail in my XP OS...

If you need to buy a new OS, they are cheap on ebay.
Probably $5 or $10.

[endicom]

It's the browser. There is no html5 browser for XP...

There's always a catch.

Thanks.

[guitar4jesus]

HTML5 sucks ON NEW SYSTEMS.  It auto plays on every site.

There are browser extensions that can help with that.  I use "Disable HTML5 Autoplay" in chrome and it does an adequate job.

[InHeavenThereIsNoBeer]

HTML5 sucks ON NEW SYSTEMS.  It auto plays on every site.

Turn that off:

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1150702

[InHeavenThereIsNoBeer]

It's the browser. There is no html5 browser for XP...

I can't say for certain as I've never used XP (or allowed html5 video), but this seems to say firefox supports html5 on xp:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML5_video

[ShadowAce]

@BikkFire @geronl @Smokin Joe @roamer_1 @Blizzardnh @markomalley @VarmintAl @Doug Loss @Rikki Tikki Tavi @guitar4jesus @kevindavis @Oceander @EC

[guitar4jesus]

Turn that off:

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1150702

That's another option.  I like using the extension because I use another extension for YouTube and disabling autoplay in the browser interferes with that.

[Wingnut]

There are browser extensions that can help with that.  I use "Disable HTML5 Autoplay" in chrome and it does an adequate job.

I have it but it doesn't catch em all.  I even went and right click on the speaker icon on the right of the taskbar and chose "Playback Devices", then clicked on your speakers and chose "Properties", then go to the "Advanced" tab, there is an option titled "Allow applications to take exclusive control of this device". That option was checked on my computer. I have unchecked it.  This works for the flash ones.   I'm almost to the point where im gonna take junk pair of earphones, and cut the wires off the plug. Stick the plug in the jack on your laptop, and the unwanted sound goes nowhere.

[EC]

How the hell do you disable that stupid thing where the video follows you down the screen as you scroll?

[Wingnut]

How the hell do you disable that stupid thing where the video follows you down the screen as you scroll?

Yeah....  I scroll down to get away from it and it follows me.  WTF?

[InHeavenThereIsNoBeer]

How the hell do you disable that stupid thing where the video follows you down the screen as you scroll?

I can't say for certain, but NoScript will probably do it.

If you have a link I can try it out.

[Wingnut]

I can't say for certain, but NoScript will probably do it.

If you have a link I can try it out.

I think That english site is famous for that shit.  The daily something.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-4729670/Tracey-Cox-sex-life-dull-daring.html

[endicom]

I can't say for certain, but NoScript will probably do it.

If you have a link I can try it out.

NoScript works because it blocks scripts. And other stuff. The downside is having to allow some sites, but that can be done permanently as well as temporarily.

[roamer_1]

I can't say for certain, but NoScript will probably do it.

If you have a link I can try it out.

I would say that's true, as I don't have the problem, and was unaware of it... Only things in Moz FF addons that would have blocked that action are NoScript  or ABP.

[roamer_1]

I can't say for certain as I've never used XP (or allowed html5 video), but this seems to say firefox supports html5 on xp:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML5_video

@InHeavenThereIsNoBeer

Technically, any browser can support html5, providing the 'new' stuff is set inside a block... and within that block, a suitable redirect could be defined to handle just about anything... It's just script after all.

But in practice, no. That an author could make a page compatible with any browser, doesn't mean he will.

This issue is exactly what drove me off of XP about  year ago. My last xp box, an Asus eeePC netbook, was almost literally rendered useless on the web... It had been my PIM for nigh on a decade, but antiquated browser, with antiquated flash and java, made for a very limited ability online. Not so bad that the bouncy-jangly bits don't work, but fairly often a page would choke the browser, which would choke xp, and cause a need for a hard shutdown and reboot. very unhappy.

That's why that little netbook went to Linux.