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Re:Ask HN: Why doesn't Adobe just kill the Flash Player? by csomar on Sunday December 18, 2016 @06:06AM (#13205337)
Two things here:

1. It's because Google finance is old and probably forgotten. Really answers the OP question why it's not a good idea to kill flash right now.

2. Have been trading for a while and can tell that the performance of that chart beat the hell out of any JavaScript charting tool out there. It's interesting that JS/HTML 5 is all the hype now but it's still lagging behind a 10 year old technology.

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Re:Ask HN: Why doesn't Adobe just kill the Flash Player? by jayflux on Sunday December 18, 2016 @06:17AM (#13205369)
Yeah, i do find it odd that Google finance (which is used quite a bit i believe) hasn't had any life breathed into it. I'm sure its had the same design for the last decade now
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Re:Ask HN: Why doesn't Adobe just kill the Flash Player? by brianwawok on Sunday December 18, 2016 @09:14AM (#13205849)
Doubt it makes enough money to move the needle.
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Re:Ask HN: Why doesn't Adobe just kill the Flash Player? by Nanite on Sunday December 18, 2016 @07:32AM (#13205564)
While they seemed to have abandoned Google Finance and left it in flash limbo, they do seem to be using HTML5 for stock charting whey you query google for: "company name" quote
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