{"id":17251,"date":"2019-08-03T10:14:59","date_gmt":"2019-08-03T14:14:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=17251"},"modified":"2019-08-03T10:16:52","modified_gmt":"2019-08-03T14:16:52","slug":"newest-version-of-chrome-nixes-flash-foreshadows-things-to-come","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/newest-version-of-chrome-nixes-flash-foreshadows-things-to-come\/","title":{"rendered":"Newest Version of Chrome Nixes Flash; Foreshadows Things to Come"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 29pt;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Newest Version of Chrome Nixes Flash; Foreshadows Things to Come<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The newest version of Chrome &#8211; Chrome version 76 &#8211; was recently released. Chrome version 76 takes the next step in preparing users for the end of Adobe Flash coming in December 2020.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Any site that requires Flash will show the infamous &#8220;missing puzzle piece&#8221; symbol. Users will also see the message: &#8220;Adobe Flash Player is blocked.&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Chrome users will not be able to run Flash without going into Settings and re-enabling Flash.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">To re-enable flash, go to open Chrome Settings and scroll to the bottom of Settings and click &#8220;Advanced&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2019\/noflash0.png\" alt=\"Cloudeight InfoAve Chrome Tips\" width=\"589\" height=\"399\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In Advanced go to &#8220;Privacy and security&#8221; &gt; &#8220;Site Settings&#8221; &gt; &#8220;Flash&#8221; &gt; and turn the switch next to &#8220;Ask First&#8221; to &#8220;On&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Some Chrome users, like me, may find that the switch is already turned on &#8212; if so you&#8217;ll find out when you check.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Users will be able to run Flash and display Flash content but only after clicking to allow Flash to run.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Chrome version 76 will also show a notification reminding users that support for Flash will &#8220;no longer be supported after December 2020&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2019\/noflash.png\" alt=\"Cloudeight InfoAve Chrome Tips\" width=\"589\" height=\"121\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\"><strong>How to find out what version of Chrome you&#8217;re using<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Click the 3 vertical dots at the top right of Chrome and click &#8220;Help&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2019\/helpabout.png\" alt=\"Cloudeight InfoAve Chrome Tips\" width=\"273\" height=\"540\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Click &#8220;About Google Chrome&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2019\/helpabout1.png\" alt=\"Cloudeight InfoAve Chrome Tips\" width=\"410\" height=\"99\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">And you&#8217;ll see your version of Chrome.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2019\/helpabout2.png\" alt=\"Cloudeight InfoAve Chrome Tips\" width=\"589\" height=\"246\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">If you&#8217;re not using the latest version you&#8217;ll be able to update from here as well.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Newest Version of Chrome Nixes Flash; Foreshadows Things to Come The newest version of Chrome &#8211; Chrome version 76 &#8211; was recently released. Chrome version 76 takes the next step in preparing users for the end of Adobe Flash coming in December 2020. Any site that requires Flash will show the infamous &#8220;missing puzzle piece&#8221; symbol.\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/newest-version-of-chrome-nixes-flash-foreshadows-things-to-come\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13622,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1462,2574],"tags":[344,1836,3187,3336,1497,309],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17251"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17251"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17254,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17251\/revisions\/17254"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}