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The only reason I kept Chrome around is because I occasionally wanted to watch Youtube videos that were Flash only. I wasn't going to install Flash system-wide, so I was grateful for Google's approach of maintaining a private Flash instance. Now, that usecase is become less of a problem, so I can ditch Chrome, which I never used otherwise.

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You could have watched a video on Youtube on Firefox for the last year at least. It was a setting in your Youtube account.

Some people like not having accounts on any random website that will be used for tracking and targetting.

Do these people use Chrome ?

It was the best way to run Flash programs without installing Flash system-wide.

Parent was a bit wrong; you didn't need an account or to be signed in. IIRC, you went to youtube.com/html5 and enabled it.

>I occasionally wanted to watch Youtube videos that were Flash only

Are there any examples of flash only video? I used to use a 3rd party extension that would show videos in html5 and i never came accross any video that required me to load it in flash. I'm curious how Youtube tries to deliver those videos now.

There used to be many. I haven't encountered one in a while, however.

about in video in academia, ever.

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