Chrome browser Adobe Flash Player support ending!

Well, Chrome has been my favourite browser after I made the leap from Firefox almost 3 years ago.

I have seen posts on the internet a few weeks ago about Google making some changes to chrome to reduce it's resources utilization which has been impacting laptop batteries negatively. Since am a victim, I downloaded the beta version with these new improvements before it's official release.

Only today has Chrome thrown a warning while am on Chess.com stating;

"This site uses a plugin (Adobe Flash player) that will soon be unsupported.

Could not load Shockwave Flash"

I hope Chess.com staff are aware about it. 

I wondered about this too.

Thanks Kitten.

This is what I get;  "Your Google Chrome browser already includes Adobe® Flash® Player built-in. Google Chrome will automatically update when new versions of Flash Player are available."

What I meant is that it seems newer versions of Google Chrome might not support Adobe Flash Player plugin at all!

Surely Chrome will have something to take it place ?

you should clear your cache

?? this has got nothing to do with adobe flash player.

As far as I know, you don't need flash for this site. Designers now should be working towards using html5 rather than flash, which uses a lot of system resources. Apple ditched flash, it looks like google will as well. There's no need to download something that you don't need.

chrome comes with its own flash player, pepperflash which is maintained by google.  html5 has been standard for approximately two years and it still pains me that sites like chess24, facebook, BBC etc still use flash.  I don't have flash on my browser which is chromium and I cannot say that I miss it.

I keep several browsers on my machine, Maxthon, Firefox, and even IE as well as Chrome in case I need them. Maxthon is faster than Chrome, but Chrome has features I like and some sites work better with some browsers but not others. 

Well let's see how it's gonna be. I'll post the changes Chrome will have made once they roll out their new version which they claim won't be "killing" laptop batteries.

Flash deserves to die.

html5 is open code, and does all flash can do- and much, much more.

I know some Html5

Useful but I'm still not sure if this site will work on Chrome if they stop allowing Adobe Flash or any other PPAPI ap. Would be more than helpful if someone identified as representing chess.com could give a definitive answer. Meantime I think I might check out Maxthon. 

Flash is used on chess.com only in the videos. Switching from that annoying SWplayer to something simpler and more useful should not be rocket science...

As a web developer, am in agreement with your sentiments.

Thank you

Google finally made their move on the 1st Sept, 2015; http://thenextweb.com/apps/2015/09/01/adobe-flash-just-took-another-step-towards-death-thanks-to-google/

Chrome has already received more updates from v42 and is at version 45 as of today, 7th Sept

The computer opponent does not run in Chrome. The site needs to fix this. I am a paying member. I love this site, but it is falling behind. Example http://en.lichess.org/