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Google Chrome is planning to shift away from Flash

Google is planning to place restrictions and eventually block most Flash content in its Chrome browser by the end of this year, reports The Verge. Users visiting websites running flash will soon be prompted with an option to enable Flash; if enabled, Chrome will save that site for future visits. Chrome is also planning to enable Flash by default in only the “top 10 domains” for a period of one year. These sites include: YouTube, Facebook, Yahoo, Twitch, and Amazon, among others. After the one year period, Flash will be blocked by default in all these sites as well. Additionally, Chrome will prompt an option to run backup HTML5 players for sites with Flash. It has also encouraged developers to shift to using more of HTML5 tools while creating content. In a similar instance, Google said that it would stop accepting ads built on Flash for AdWords by July 2016 and by January 2017, AdWords will stop displaying ads running Flash formats. It instead notified developers to shift towards ads created used HTML5 tools. Google restricts Flash to save power consumption In July last year, in order to save power consumption, Google started “intelligently pausing Flash content that were not central to the webpage, while keeping central content (like a video) playing without interruption”. If Google accidentally pauses something that you were watching, you could click it to resume playback. Flash is riddled with security concerns In July 2015, Mozilla’s Firefox browser started blocking all versions of Adobe’s Flash plugin from its browsers…

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