Flash: From Unmissable To Negligible on Chrome
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 tren...