Flash Is Done and Dusted With its next major release, Chrome will start blocking Flash content by default.

The writing has been on the wall for an interminably long time, but the takeaway is unequivocal: Flash is truly dead. With Chrome joining the ranks of Safari and Firefox in blocking Flash content, there’s effectively no future for the once dominant multimedia plugin.

Tellingly, Google’s post announcing the shift focuses on “background” Flash content. It’s taken as a given that if you’re doing rich media work on the web you’ve already shifted to HTML5. What this post is dealing with is are the last few diehards and the oft-overlooked utility functions Flash sometimes served—if you’ve ever added copy-to-clipboard functionality to your website then you know what I’m talking about. With this change, even those uses are ending.