This top 10 list has been dropped, in favor of a better system called Site Engagement ( chrome://site-engagement) that gives scores to websites based on the number of visits and time spent on each site. The list included YouTube, Flash, VK, and others. The user's option would be remembered for subsequent visits, but there's also an option in the browser's settings section, under Settings > Content Settings > Flash > Manage Exceptions, where users can add the websites they want to allow Flash to run by default.īack in May, to avoid over-prompting users, Google said it would whitelist some of the Internet's biggest web portals where HTML5 isn't yet supported, or where not all content could be played back via HTML5 just yet. Where HTML5 isn't supported, Chrome will prompt users and ask them if they want to run Flash to view multimedia content. Google's plan is to turn off Flash and use HTML5 for all sites.

Users have to allow Flash to run on non-HTML5 websites While some of the initial implementation details of the 'HTML5 By Default' plan changed since May, Flash has been phased out in favor of HTML5 as the primary technology for playing multimedia content in Chrome.

Chrome 55, released earlier this week, now blocks all Adobe Flash content by default, according to a plan set in motion by Google engineers earlier this year.īack in May, Google's staff announced that starting with Q4 2016, Chrome would use HTML5 by default, while Flash would be turned off.

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