Google has announced that hacker-favorite Adobe Flash Player will no longer, as of Q4, be the default in Chrome. Instead, Chrome will default to HTML5.

Google Chrome has replaced Adobe Flash with HTML5 in its latest version, according to an Engadget report by Billy Steele. “Google proposed making HTML5 the default over Flash in its Chrome ...

Google's Chrome browser will stop supporting Adobe's Flash Player on nearly all websites by the end of the year. Posting to Google groups, staff member Anthony LaForge outlined the company's plan ...

Chrome will make Flash player a last resort as soon as fall An 'HTML5 by Default' proposal would kick Adobe's often-maligned plugin to the curb.

Google has outlined a plan to push HTML5 by default in Chrome, instead of Flash. In Q4 2016, the company plans to only serve Flash by default for the top 10 domains that still depend on the plugin ...

Starting this September, Google's Chrome will begin to block Flash in favour of HTML5 for behind the scenes analytics.

Chrome 55 isn’t the first to launch without Flash, since Facebook decided to launch video with HTML5. Adobe has even phased out Flash, as it stated on a blog in November of 2015.

Some observers pan the move, noting Google's support for Flash rival HTML5 Google with its Chrome browser is making accommodations for the Adobe Flash Player, a move that did not sit well with ...

Google has previously allowed Chrome, Safari, and Internet-Explorer-using-Chrome-Frame browsers to try out a few HTML5 video demos at its site, but now Google's given you the option to always play ...

On the other hand, Flash more than held its own on Windows, and Flash Player 10.1 was actually 58% more efficient than HTML5 in Google Chrome on the Windows system tested.

Flash Player will still be installed as part of Chrome, but it will be invisible to websites. Google has built-in measures to address sites that direct users to install Flash from Adobe.