{"id":449,"date":"2017-04-12T05:51:58","date_gmt":"2017-04-12T09:51:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gotsteve.com\/blog\/?p=449"},"modified":"2018-02-12T22:27:51","modified_gmt":"2018-02-13T02:27:51","slug":"flash-chrome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gotsteve.com\/blog\/flash-chrome\/","title":{"rendered":"Adobe Flash and Google Chrome – Newsmap.jp"},"content":{"rendered":"

Update:\u00a0<\/strong>Thanks to commenters, I’ve confirmed that this fix no longer works for newsmap.jp on Chrome.\u00a0 You can use a modernized version of newsmap that uses html5\/js instead of flash:\u00a0https:\/\/newsmap-js.herokuapp.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n

I like the Google Chrome Browser. But Google’s agenda doesn’t always align with the reality of the internet. \u00a0Take Flash as an example. \u00a0Adobe Flash has been dying a slow death online; rightfully so in some respects: It has proven to be a security risk and a battery life killer. Google, for that matter, is doing their part by slowly disabling Flash in the Chrome browser. They’ve defined their timeline, some interesting details\u00a0here<\/a>\u00a0and here<\/a>. In December 2016 Chrome 55+, they disabled Flash by default, with some exceptions.<\/p>\n

As I understood it, there is supposed to be a warning in the browser bar or an ability to enable Flash content in-line on a website, like this:\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

But this doesn’t always work. \u00a0One of my favorite websites, newsmap.jp , a visual tool to view Google News, is one such example where Chrome’s method of blocking\/prompting to enable flash by default fails. \u00a0The website appears to do a check to see if Flash is installed early on, and prompts you to install it if it doesn’t detect it right away… \u00a0See screenshot below:<\/p>\n

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What’s the fix? \u00a0I found a couple ways; first the easy fix for this site:<\/p>\n

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Easy Fix:<\/strong><\/p>\n

On the top left of the website, before the website address, click the “i” with a circle icon, looks like this:\u00a0\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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Then go down to Flash: And choose “Always Allow On This Site”; see below:<\/p>\n

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Chrome will then prompt to reload the page:\u00a0\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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And now your website with Flash content works as expected:\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Harder Fix:<\/strong><\/p>\n

The harder fix involves you going into Settings, Advanced Settings, Privacy Settings, Content Settings… Flash, and adding an exception for the site in question. \u00a0This worked well for another site, speedtest.net that checks for the presence of Flash and then quickly redirects you to their non-flash test page…<\/p>\n

In the Flash exception settings, \u00a0 I added a rule that included any subdomain under speedtest.net: \u00a0[*.]speedtest.net \u00a0 Navigated fresh to speedtest.net, and it worked great.<\/p>\n

In Conclusion:<\/strong><\/p>\n

As Google Chrome continues the crusade to steer folks away from Flash, it will likely become harder to workaround; but at least for now, there are some ways to get Flash going, even on sites that attempt to detect flash before loading…<\/p>\n

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Update:\u00a0Thanks to commenters, I’ve confirmed that this fix no longer works for newsmap.jp on Chrome.\u00a0 You can use a modernized version of newsmap that uses html5\/js instead of flash:\u00a0https:\/\/newsmap-js.herokuapp.com\/ I like the Google Chrome Browser. But Google’s agenda doesn’t always align with the reality of the internet. \u00a0Take Flash as an example. \u00a0Adobe Flash has… Continue reading Adobe Flash and Google Chrome – Newsmap.jp<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gotsteve.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gotsteve.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gotsteve.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gotsteve.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gotsteve.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gotsteve.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gotsteve.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gotsteve.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gotsteve.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}