Last year Adobe announced that it will completely abandon its support for Flash Player by the end of 2020. All browsers such as Chrome, Firefox, Edge, and so on no longer play Flash content by default, but require users to click once.
At the same time, the vast majority of online advertising, video streaming are no longer used Flash production, but into a new HTML5, so the sharp drop in Flash usage is also expected.
Parisa Tabriz believes that the 8% ratio is very good, indicating that browsers are ready to completely remove Flash support.
In accordance with the existing update rhythm, December 2020 we will see the Chrome 87 version, Adobe will no longer provide Flash update, Chrome will take advantage of the opportunity to bid farewell to Flash.
Starting with Chrome 76 in July 2019, Flash will be disabled by default, and users will need to manually enable the plug-in if they want to browse Flash content.
In addition, 68% of Chrome Android / Windows traffic, 78% of ChromeOS / Mac's traffic from the HTTPS link, so in July this year, Chrome 68 will be posted on all HTTP links are unsafe tags.
75% of Firefox's traffic has also been turned to HTTPS, the next step will also mark the HTTP link as insecure.