Google Chrome succeeds in dramatically reducing Flash utilization

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At any one time, any rich content such as movies or games on the InternetAdobe FlashIt was made with. But,Google ChromeYaFirefox, Even Adobe of the developer also "Let's stop using Flash"As a result, according to the latest survey data of 2018, it seems that Flash utilization rate has been successfully reduced from 80% in 2014 to 8% or less.

Google Chrome: Flash Usage Declines from 80% in 2014 to Under 8% Today
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/google-chrome-flash-usage-declines-from-80-percent-in-2014-to-under-8-percent-today/

It was held in February 2018Network and Distributed System Security SymposiumIn Parisa Tabriz, Google's engineering director, Google keynote speakers, in which data on Flash utilization on Google Chrome was shown in the data. According to this data, it is obvious that Chrome users who read more than one page containing Flash content on a single day had about 80% in the middle of 2014, but 8% or less in the beginning of 2018 It is becoming.

The following pictures are graphs showing the transition of the Flash utilization rate in Chrome displayed during the keynote lecture


Mr. Tabriz is the person responsible for Chrome's security, and in the keynote speeches he talks about the evolution of security and web platform in Chrome, and he also mentioned Flash.

Major browsers such as Chrome, Firefox, and Edge have already started to check "Whether to run Flash" by 2017 or earlier. Nevertheless, many experts were surprised to see how much the utilization of Flash declined so much. This large utilization drop is due to manyInternet advertisementYaVideo streaming serviceIt is obvious that it is closely related to the abolishment of Flash and transition to HTML5 baseBleeping ComputerHe wrote.

Still the number of computers on which Flash is installed is still considered to be large. Mr. Tabriz's published "8% or less" is merely "people who are using Flash to play web content", Bleeping Computer guesses that users still have plugins installed That's why.

For Chrome, it is "Chrome 87" which will be released in December 2020 that Flash is completely discontinued from the browser. Before Chrome 87 is released, Google has made a move to gradually eliminate Flash, and Flash will be invalid by default on "Chrome 76" and later, which will be released in July 2019, If you want to use Flash content you need to manually activate Flash from the settings.