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Re:Chrome will begin pausing many Flash ads by default on Se... by skrause on Friday August 28, 2015 @05:27AM (#10134458)
The HTML5 player has been the default on YouTube since January: http://www.theverge.com/2015/1/27/7926001/youtube-drops-flas...
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Re:Chrome will begin pausing many Flash ads by default on Se... by ablation on Friday August 28, 2015 @06:12AM (#10134590)
Quite a few player embeds on the pages I visit still default to Flash, rather annoyingly. That's been my experience at least.
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Re:Chrome will begin pausing many Flash ads by default on Se... by TazeTSchnitzel on Friday August 28, 2015 @09:43AM (#10135325)
You're supposed to use an <iframe> to embed these days, but some sites still use the flash-only <object>/<embed>.
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Re:Chrome will begin pausing many Flash ads by default on Se... by cpeterso on Friday August 28, 2015 @02:38PM (#10137163)
no-flash is a Firefox extension (written by a Mozilla employee) to rewrite Flash-only object embeds to use YouTube's HTML5 player:

https://github.com/hfiguiere/no-flash/

Mozilla may include this functionality in Firefox directly:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=769117

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Re:Chrome will begin pausing many Flash ads by default on Se... by TazeTSchnitzel on Friday August 28, 2015 @03:05PM (#10137314)
Mobile Safari did this from very early on! (iPhone OS 2 or earlier) Though they didn't use YouTube's official HTML5 player.
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