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Twitch is moving from Flash to HTML 5

Matthew Wilson July 23, 2015 General Tech

Following on from other sites abandoning Flash, streaming site, Twitch, has also revealed that it will be switching from Adobe's solution to HTML 5, just as YouTube did some time ago. Flash Plenty of big name companies have been moving away from Flash recently, including Mozilla and Facebook, whose Chief of Security called for its death earlier this month.

This means Twitch's video player controls will go through a bit of a redesign with Javascript and HTML 5 options. Flash has been seen as inefficient for some time now but more and more sites seem to be moving away from Adobe's ageing software recently.

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Part of the reason for ditching Flash is due to security concerns. Adobe's software has not had a great record over the years but more recently, following the Hacking Team leak, some major vulnerabilities were discovered, which led to Mozilla blocking the software by default in a Firefox update.

You can read Twitch's full blog on the matter, HERE. 

Discuss on our Facebook page, HERE.

KitGuru Says: Plenty of sites have been distancing themselves away from Flash over the last few years though there are still some that heavily rely on it, such as browser based game sites, like Newgrounds. 

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5 comments

  1. Roman
    July 24, 2015 at 8:10 am

    Finally we’re going to be rid of that CPU hog of a flash player. HTML5 ftw.

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  2. mprzepio
    July 24, 2015 at 9:58 am

    The only reason I never used Twitch. I won’t be bothered installing shitty Flash just for one website.

  3. Vitaliy VK
    July 24, 2015 at 5:45 pm

    You can try free CherryPlayer to play Twitch that plays perfect Twitch on Windows and you do not need browser to play Twitch now! In CherryPlayer you will find a lot of Twitch features. also CherryPlayer uses very little 1-5% CPU on my PC during playback twitch stream.

  4. Vitaliy VK
    July 24, 2015 at 5:45 pm

    I am using free desktop CherryPlayer that plays perfect Twitch on Windows and I do not need browser to play Twitch now! In CherryPlayer I found a lot of Twitch features like search for streams, channels and games, twitch top playlists, playback streams and videos, sorting streams by language, sorting video by cretated date, channel profile with highlights videos and past broadcasts, changing video quality during playback etc. also CherryPlayer uses very little 1-5% CPU on my PC during playback twitch stream. I’m very happy with this player!

  5. mprzepio
    July 24, 2015 at 8:27 pm

    thanks, that looks interesting.

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