Flash from Adobe was very popular for a long time as a media player. It was also a gaping hole for malware infection - if you have flash installed on your system, you will see the offers to upgrade it every week or two - these upgrades are not to add features, they are to patch gaping security holes.
HTML5 has media as an innate function. Most of YouTube runs HTML5 for their videos and I have not had flash running on any of my systems for over a year and it is only the rare time when I do not get to see a video.
Google Chrome browser is making it official - from their forum:
Intent to implement: HTML5 by Default
Motivation
While Flash historically has been critical for rich media on the web, today in many cases HTML5 provides a more integrated media experience with faster load times and lower power consumption. This change reflects the maturity of HTML5 and its ability to deliver an excellent user experience. We will continue to work closely with Adobe and other browser vendors to keep moving the web platform forward, in particular paying close attention to web gaming.
Details
Later this year we plan to change how Chromium hints to websites about the presence of Flash Player, by changing the default response of Navigator.plugins and Navigator.mimeTypes. If a site offers an HTML5 experience, this change will make that the primary experience. We will continue to ship Flash Player with Chrome, and if a site truly requires Flash, a prompt will appear at the top of the page when the user first visits that site, giving them the option of allowing it to run for that site (see the proposal for the mock-ups).
Good fscking riddance.
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