Google Chrome has decided to stop support for Adobe Flash. Although we've heard it many times without seeing it happening, this time the browser will stop Flash and only use HTML5.
Slow distancing from Flash starts in September when it comes with the upcoming Chrome 53.
Η company says:
Today, more than 90% of Flash on the web runs in the background and supports services like Analytics. This kind of Flash slows you down, and starting next September, Chrome 53 will start to block it. HTML5 is much lighter and faster. Switching publishers to this will speed up page loading and save you more duration life in battery. You will see an improvement in responsiveness and efficiency on many websites.
The slow "murder" of Flash will not take long. Until the release of Chrome in version 55, which will be released in December, Google plans to allow HTML5 as the only option for Chrome users, unless a site only supports Flash.
If you visit a Flash website, Google will ask you to enable it for that page. However, HTML5 will always work as the default.
Flash was good for its time, but we are in 2016…