Flash: From Unmissable To Negligible on Chrome

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At a conference in San Diego last week, Parisa Tabriz, Director of engineering at Google, said that using Adobe Flash dropped drastically over the past four
years on Google Chrome, from 80 percent in 2014 to 8% at the start of the year 2018.

Flash is on the decline, but it is not always easy to quantify. During a conference in San Diego, Parisa Tabriz presented a panorama of the evolution of
security issues over the past years on Google Chrome. The Director presented the evolution of the browser and focused especially on statistics related to the use of Adobe Flash by Chrome users.

The fall of popularity of the Adobe plug-in is quite obvious: Parisa Tabriz explains that in 2014, 80% of Chrome users had used Flash to view content. In 2018, this figure drops to 8% of users.

Several factors explain this drastic reduction of uses. On the one hand, Flash does not have good press and its too many security flaws have largely been exploited by cyber criminals in recent years. A trend that has led the major browsers to propose a template asking the consent of the user prior to playback of content with Flash, unlike the previous model which read by default without asking his opinion to the user.

Faced with this, the rise of HTML5, which offers functions equivalent to those of Flash in a shared standard, also helped the ecosystem to switch little by little towards standardized technologies. The advertising ecosystem including began a toggle to HTLM5 content at the expense of flash, which has also contributed to the reduction of the uses of Flash. Some big players in the streaming such as
Netflix and Youtube have also fully turned their backs to video players in Flash, for the benefit of the standardized HTML5 technologies.

As reported by Bleeping Computer, Parisa Tabriz pointed out that if the use of Flash had significantly dropped, the number of machines with Adobe Flash installed remains particularly high. Chrome will cease to Flash by default its users with its 87 version, scheduled for December 2020. Before that
fateful date, version 79 scheduled for end of 2019 will be offered with Flash disabled by default. Adobe has announced that he would update its technology in 2020.

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