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    adobe flash be gone already, welcome html5

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by Tinderbox (UK), Jun 10, 2015.

  1. Tinderbox (UK)

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    Flash is a real pain, it crashes all the time, I right click a video and my browser freezes, I wish it was totally gone, I hate it.

    But does it have any advantages over html5 ???

    John.
     
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    downloads No, Dee Dee, no! Super Moderator

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    Let me guess - it crashes on your Switch 10 in FF?
     
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    No, It crashes on ever notebook i have used, it`s not a specific notebook, even after clean installs give it a couple of hours browsing i will see a crash, it might not like my other plugins, flash player has always been a pain.

    I wish every site supported html5

    John.

     
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    I very rarely see Flash crashes. Must be something you are doing.....
     
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    No crashes here...got latest Flash Plugin for IE and FF and Silverlight and Java and no problems. Since we have no idea what video or site your referring to no one can confirm or validate what your saying beyond just hearsay.
     
    StormJumper, Jun 10, 2015
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    Again, have not had a flash issue since the annoying green videos die to hardware acceleration way back. but I don't use many plugins etc on FF or IE.
     
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    Same here most likely they overloaded plugins and then blame the Browser for the problems they themselves caused. Most time the Broswer isn't to blame but the user themselves as the culprit for the problems.
     
    StormJumper, Jun 10, 2015
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    I have flash "ask to activate" in settings, since it would slow down my FF to a crawl sometimes and I have no plugins, so I think it's more of a website issues. But I can enable it when needed, so that works like a charm and since I set it up to on demand only I don't recall anymore issues.
     
    pete962, Jun 11, 2015
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    Flash plugins don't "ask to activate" it gives 3 options but one of them isn't "ask to activiate" I think your getting Adobe Flash mixed up with the free Flash plugins here. And since no one knows what website your referring to there nothing to verify what your saying. AFAIK Flash plugins doesn't indicate "Enable or disable" function your referring to so again it looks like Flash plugins are being confused with Adobe Flash program.
     
    StormJumper, Jun 12, 2015
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    Adobe Flash is available as standalone player and used as such by Internet Explorer, or as plugin for Netscape compatible web browsers, like Firefox, which I use. Both are released by Adobe to display multimedia web content, have same version, similar size, so I'm not sure what to be confused about, especially that Firefox isn't able to use standalone version. OP commented that he had issues with browser freezing , so did I, on different computers, different websites, all using Firefox (I don't use IE unless I have no choice) and since I set "ask to activate" flash option in FF, I don't have those slowdowns/lockups anymore. Was it Flash player ....sorry, sorry plugin fault, Firefox problem or website issue, I don't know and I don't care, since all is good now, but I had reasons to believe it was websites, or rather their flash based advertising. Anyhow, I have no bad feelings towards flash player, my kids play many flash based games. BTW HTML5 is replacing HTML4 but with many additional multimedia extensions, making flash redundant but I think it will take a while before all flash based stuff is gone. I'm not big fan of Apple, but didn't they stop supporting Flash years ago, also I think some Android phones may be lacking Flash support from factory as well, so this is ongoing process.
     
    pete962, Jun 12, 2015
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