Google wants HTML5 as default in Chrome Instead of Flash

[engine]

Google has laid out a proposal for HTML5 as default in Chrome instead of Flash, and that if a site requires Flash the user will get a prompt to allow Flash for that site. The settings a user selects will be retained for revisits to that same site.

[docs.google.com...]

[Robert Charlton]

if a site requires Flash the user will get a prompt to allow Flash for that site

That's sort of analogous to how I've mostly used Firefox. I generally get two layers of prompts... first, will I allow Flash, and then am I allowing it just this once or forever?

It's worth noting that the biggest difficulty with such an arrangement is on Facebook, where different combinations of privacy permissions and access routes occasionally can make granting these permissions difficult to do. This has also given me a sense of just how difficult it is to organize privacy permissions on a complicated social website.

I'm amazed how pervasive Flash is... It's even built into audio players on NPR (National Public Radio), eg. Flash/Shockwave appear to be used in a lot of advertising networks as well... making some pages almost impossible to load This resulting performance hit is one of the big reasons people want ad blockers, IMO.

I can't wait until Flash is gone.

[keyplyr]

I removed Flash from all browsers, then purged a few remaining files from my machine a while back. So far, there's only a couple sites I care about that are affected. Plus, it stops some of those unwanted video pop-ups from displaying annoying ad content.