Chrome (for Windows) not using Adobe Flash (installed, working, default)

[robertpasa]

Is it true that Chrome for Windows no longer uses Adobe Flash or uses it very little? I read for years they wanted to phase it out.

When you use YouTube on Chrome for Windows it's using HTML5, is that right?

Are IE, Edge and Firefox also moving away from using Adobe Flash?

I used Firefox until 2015 and there were probs with updating Flash and I started using Chrome. Never have to worry about videos working or not.

The internet in general is moving away from flash. It's a horrible tool from a bygone era when HTML/CSS/Javascript couldn't cut it for complex things.

[robertpasa]

If you buy a very new Windows 10 computer, would it have Flash installed by default?
Or a new Android phone?

[bigbear99]

Chrome is now flashless. It relies, IIRC, on HTML 5. I keep Firefox handy, because there's a fair bit of content that does not render or operate on Chrome, and those pages always seem to be ones I need.

[Skunk Workz]

Originally Posted by robertpasa

If you buy a very new Windows 10 computer, would it have Flash installed by default?
Or a new Android phone?

On Windows 10, only if the computer manufacturer installed it (it's not part of Windows). There's no Flash for Android, and hasn't been in several years.