The Chromium engine powers Google Chrome, Opera, and many other browsers. As of July 2019, flash is disabled by default. By December 2020, flash will be removed completely. Why would the once powerful, popular Flash vanish from browsers?
Announcements/ Artifacts
Status
- The support of the Adobe Flash plugin is going to end in the year 2020, and that is for all major web browsers (Firefox, Opera, Microsoft Edge, Apple Safari). However, if you save the flash file.
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HTML5 by default has shipped and we are currently in the process of ramping up the SEI threshold, per the schedule below.
Currently 87.5% of population have an SEI threshold score of 4 and 12.5% has a threshold score of 8 (we do this to measure the impact of the threshold change). By the end of the month we will progress on to the next phase on the ramp and everyone will be at least at 8.
Shipping Schedule
HTML5 by Default was initially rolled out to 1% of Chrome 55 Stable users (December), followed by a full deployment (i.e. to 100% of users) in Chrome 56 Stable (February).
Chrome Flash Support 2020
Flash prompting will only be enabled for sites whose Site Engagement Index (SEI) is below a certain threshold. For Chrome 55, starting in January 2017 prompts will only appear for sites where the user’s SEI is less than 1. That threshold will increase to 100 through October 2017, when all Flash sites will require an initial prompt. As a reminder, users will only be prompted once per site.
Chrome Drops Flash Support
Here’s a summary of thresholds and % of users:
Chrome Flash 2020
Site Engagement Threshold | User % Enabled | |
January 2017 | 1 (Stable 55) | 1% (Stable 55), 50% (Beta 56) |
February 2017 | 2 | 100% (Stable 56) |
March 2017 | 4 | 100% |
April 2017 | 8 | 100% |
May 2017 | 16 | |
June 2017 | 32 | 100% |
July 2017 | 32 | 100% |
August 2017 | 32 | 100% |
September 2017 | 64 | 100% |
October 2017 | 100 | 100% |