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. Microsoft, for instance, plans to require users of its Edge browser to renew sites’ Flash permissions at each relaunch but has yet to ship that feature.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.

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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. 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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