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Title: Firefox blocks flash now
Post by: Bamyasi on July 14, 2015 10:58 AM
Source. (http://news.softpedia.com/news/adobe-updates-flash-to-18-0-0-209-after-mozilla-blocks-all-versions-in-firefox-486813.shtml)

I think it's time you all switch over to Opera (https://vivaldi.com) master race.

Think of the autoplays you'll miss if you hesitate.
Title: Re: Firefox blocks flash now
Post by: rtil on July 14, 2015 11:15 AM
i think chrome is doing this soon too, not just with flash but also java and silverlight,  et al. at least, it keeps warning me that they will soon be unsupported. idk if that means i'll have to install it manually or use a 3rd party plugin to make sure they keep working.

fortunately autoplays can still be made with the power of html5
Title: Re: Firefox blocks flash now
Post by: valiums on July 15, 2015 02:49 AM
I bet a million dinero my computer can't run Operaldi.
Title: Re: Firefox blocks flash now
Post by: SHADOWFOX2 on July 15, 2015 03:10 AM
haha
Title: Re: Firefox blocks flash now
Post by: SHADOWFOX2 on July 15, 2015 03:16 AM
I don't mind HTML5 as an alternative.
Don't think I'll be moving over to Opera juuuust yet.
I'm down with whatever makes streams and videos run better.
Title: Re: Firefox blocks flash now
Post by: ExBerian on July 15, 2015 03:51 AM
So is the main reason browsers  are offing flash because it is more venerable? And is adobe ending flash because it can't really compete with html5, like they cant really do anything to make it as powerful as H5?
Title: Re: Firefox blocks flash now
Post by: rtil on July 15, 2015 04:31 AM
there's a couple reasons why web standards are trying to phase out flash

1. it's slow, and even slower on mobile devices, where more and more people are using the internet

2. it's insecure and vulnerabilities are on adobe to fix since it's a 3rd party plugin

3. everything it can do as a web development tool html5 and js can do faster and better

4. it has largely outlived its usefulness outside of applications

the only problem is that flash is still used on a lot of major sites like twitch, and i don't know if they've developed any alternative. youtube, however, can completely phase it out at this point if they so wished
Title: Re: Firefox blocks flash now
Post by: Bamyasi on July 15, 2015 05:56 AM
I don't understand people who browse the web on their phone.

Or do anything besides call or text on their phone tbh.
Title: Re: Firefox blocks flash now
Post by: SHADOWFOX2 on July 15, 2015 07:15 AM
Quote from: soap on July 15, 2015 05:56 AM
I don't understand people who browse the web on their phone.

Or do anything besides call or text on their phone tbh.

I thought I was the only one.
I have never used an app to this day actually.
I do take pictures sometimes though
Title: Re: Firefox blocks flash now
Post by: zwimmy on July 15, 2015 07:37 AM
best browser:

[spoiler](https://thebackalleys.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fmedia.giphy.com%2Fmedia%2FanjRJ4nv9WJzO%2Fgiphy.gif&hash=98275a1253a4b3743f42cd810469e3a873e9c12d)[/spoiler]
Title: Re: Firefox blocks flash now
Post by: rtil on July 15, 2015 08:34 AM
Quote from: SHADOWFOX2 on July 15, 2015 07:15 AM
Quote from: soap on July 15, 2015 05:56 AM
I don't understand people who browse the web on their phone.

Or do anything besides call or text on their phone tbh.

I thought I was the only one.
I have never used an app to this day actually.
I do take pictures sometimes though

websites developing their own apps is what they should be doing actually, it's using browsers on mobile devices that is an inefficient way to use the web. like, looking at tba on a phone is shit, partly because i never made a mobile friendly layout, but even if i did, the best thing to do would be to make a mobile app that is designed to only do certain things instead of just display a webpage.

websites becoming "mobile friendly" is one of the worst design trends to plague the internet
Title: Re: Firefox blocks flash now
Post by: Bamyasi on July 15, 2015 09:58 AM
(https://thebackalleys.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thebackalleys.com%2Fdump%2Ffiles%2F1530%2F411Fp6_seems_legit_tbh.jpg&hash=cb76c607d460768fb8bf2a22d253543fa03c5c8a)
Title: Re: Firefox blocks flash now
Post by: d-floe on July 18, 2015 02:05 PM
Does this mean well start seeing zone-tan on html-5?