So far, I've gone through a whole week without Flash player. The good news is that I can still watch videos on YouTube, Dailymotion, & Vimeo via the use of the HTML5 extension inside Chromium.

The bad news is that I can no longer play any of the Flash-based video games. There are also some websites that don't look too good without Flash neither. And meanwhile, Chromium continues to remind me from time to time about a missing Flash plug-in, a warning that I've yet to figure out how to shut off. But I don't have that kind of problem with Firefox or Tor.

It's one thing to live without Java. But to live without Flash player is a far more difficult task. But that is exactly what has to be done to increase the privacy AND security of your web browsing experience.

So what about the rest of you? Can you live without Flash player? OR at the risk of less privacy and security, you have to use Flash player to get things done?

[Edited 6/29/13 16:35pm]

Yep no Flash on my iPad. Not missing it.

YES, YES, YES.

Flash is dead. All the websites that are still heavily using it are all in the process of moving onto other technologies (HTML5, etc.).


I don't have flash on any of my iOS devices, and get annoyed if I run into websites that are using.
The conversions are accelerating, and even Adobe has moved off of Flash towards supporting HTML5 in their Creative Suite.

Apart from no more flash-based video games, I can no longer run Pandora Radio on my desktop neither.

Stymie said:

Yep no Flash on my iPad. Not missing it.

Same here. Every once in awhile I run up something on my iPad that stays, "you need flash". Oh well, it doesn't get accessed, I just move on.

Like imago I don't do "Flash" on any of my iOS devices.

I've disabled Java on all my computers except one, ain't missing that either. As far as my Linux Mint, I use minitube to watch YouTube videos, "mini.." doesn't require Java. Minitube can be buggy but not enough that is can't be used. Security more than ever is a premium; I've locked down my shit to the best of my ability.

ABC, along with a host of others, website is a pain trying to catch those shows online without it if one isn't an expert in all this stuff. Plus the pop up that tell you you don't have a flash player are a pain too.

morningsong said:

ABC, along with a host of others, website is a pain trying to catch those shows online without it if one isn't an expert in all this stuff. Plus the pop up that tell you you don't have a flash player are a pain too.

Anyone using Chromium OR Chrome will get that "you don't have a flash player" a lot. But again, at least YouTube, Dailymotion, & Vimeo videos are viewable with a HTML5 extension.

TonyVanDam said:

morningsong said:

ABC, along with a host of others, website is a pain trying to catch those shows online without it if one isn't an expert in all this stuff. Plus the pop up that tell you you don't have a flash player are a pain too.

Anyone using Chromium OR Chrome will get that "you don't have a flash player" a lot. But again, at least YouTube, Dailymotion, & Vimeo videos are viewable with a HTML5 extension.

Even Firefox Beta? I was reading somewhere that there's a push to end Adobe Flash, but I don't know it that was pretaining to all Flash.

morningsong said:

TonyVanDam said:

Anyone using Chromium OR Chrome will get that "you don't have a flash player" a lot. But again, at least YouTube, Dailymotion, & Vimeo videos are viewable with a HTML5 extension.

Even Firefox Beta? I was reading somewhere that there's a push to end Adobe Flash, but I don't know it that was pretaining to all Flash.

I'm not sure about Firefox Beta. But I've never seen the "you don't have a flash player" pop-up with the regular stable Firefox. And there is a HTML5 add-on available for that browser.

imago said:

YES, YES, YES.

Flash is dead. All the websites that are still heavily using it are all in the process of moving onto other technologies (HTML5, etc.).


I don't have flash on any of my iOS devices, and get annoyed if I run into websites that are using.
The conversions are accelerating, and even Adobe has moved off of Flash towards supporting HTML5 in their Creative Suite.

P.S. Imago!