Google now automatically converts Flash ads to HTML5

#1

Awesome! This is an important step to finally get rid of Flash.

#2

That and Firefox doing similar moves, very awesome.

#3

Do we have 60fps YT videos on FF yet?

#4

It’s in the current beta, but not in the latest stable release.

#5

Mmmmmm promising.

#6

Twitch has oddly been the only site that I go to on a regular basis that requires Flash.

I hate it. It’s so chuggy now.

#7

They’ve been working on an HTML 5 player for a while. For iOS they actually use an hls player.

I think advertising is the only reason they haven’t launched one.

#8

#9

Even though I know it is a hog at times, I still prefer it. Then again part of that is due to being a web developer and the Chrome Dev Tools are the best there is.

#10

If you have plenty of memory then it doesn’t matter if the browser is using a lot of it.

#11

I have 16GB, so in general it isn’t an issue.

#12

I’m currently using ~1 GB for Firefox on a 16 GB system. It really stopped being an issue for me when RAM prices dropped.

#13

I have 16GB.

The issue is it chugs my processor. I don’t know how they let it get this bad.