Saying goodbye to Flash in Chrome

 

Today, Adobe announced its plans to stop supporting Flash at the end of 2020.

 

For 20 years, Flash has helped shape the way that you play games, watch videos and run applications on the web. But over the last few years, Flash has become less common. Three years ago, 80 percent of desktop Chrome users visited a site with Flash each day. Today usage is only 17 percent and continues to decline.

 

This trend reveals that sites are migrating to open web technologies, which are faster and more power-efficient than Flash. They’re also more secure, so you can be safer while shopping, banking, or reading sensitive documents. They also work on both mobile and desktop, so you can visit your favorite site anywhere.

 

These open web technologies became the default experience for Chrome late last year when sites started needing to ask your permission to run Flash. Chrome will continue phasing out Flash over the next few years, first by asking for your permission to run Flash in more situations, and eventually disabling it by default. We will remove Flash completely from Chrome toward the end of 2020.

 

If you regularly visit a site that uses Flash today, you may be wondering how this affects you. If the site migrates to open web standards, you shouldn’t notice much difference except that you'll no longer see prompts to run Flash on that site. If the site continues to use Flash, and you give the site permission to run Flash, it will work through the end of 2020.

 

It’s taken a lot of close work with Adobe, other browsers, and major publishers to make sure the web is ready to be Flash-free. We’re supportive of Adobe’s announcement today, and we look forward to working with everyone to make the web even better.

 

 

今天，Adobe宣布了在2020年年底停止支持Flash的计划。20年来，Flash帮助塑造了你玩游戏、观看视频和在网络上运行应用程序的方式。但是在过去的几年里，Flash变得不那么常见了。三年前，80%的桌面Chrome用户每天都会访问一个带有Flash的站点。今天的使用率只有17%，而且还在继续下降。这一趋势表明，网站正在向开放的Web技术迁移，这些技术比Flash更快、更高效。它们也更安全，因此在购物、银行业务或阅读敏感文档时，您可以更安全。他们也在移动和桌面上工作，这样你就可以在任何地方访问你最喜欢的网站了。这些开放的网络技术在去年年底成为Chrome的默认体验，当时网站开始需要获得您的许可才能运行Flash。Chrome将在未来几年内继续逐步淘汰Flash，首先请您允许在更多情况下运行Flash，并最终在默认情况下禁用它。到2020年年底，我们将从Chrome完全删除Flash。如果你今天经常访问一个使用Flash的网站，你可能会想知道这会对你产生怎样的影响。如果站点迁移到开放Web标准，您应该不会注意到有什么不同，只是您将不再看到在该站点上运行Flash的提示。如果站点继续使用Flash，并且您允许该站点运行Flash，那么它将在2020年年底前正常工作。需要与Adobe、其他浏览器和主要发行商进行大量的密切合作，才能确保Web已经做好了无闪存的准备。我们支持Adobe今天的声明，我们期待着与大家合作，让网络变得更好。