When using the Microsoft Edge browser all peripheral flash content will now be paused and includes advertising, random animations and anything else that Microsoft deems to be irrelevant to the page and created using Adobe Flash.
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Microsoft wrote in one of their blogs that, “With the Anniversary Update to Windows 10, Microsoft Edge will intelligently auto-pause content that is not central to the web page”. Video or Games are exempted, animations and advertisements will be paused by default unless the user decides to view the content by clicking on it. This classification of content is similar to the approach used by Chrome. In addition, the Edge browser will also be clamping down on annoying Flash tools in webpages. Unfortunately, as with most lovely things on the internet, advertisers and hackers hijacked the technology and made Flash implementation something to fear in recent times.
Apart from not pulling your eyeballs to the corner of your eyes and distracting you from the main content, the controls will also serve to significantly reduce power consumption and improves performance.
It should be noted that both Chrome and Safari already have nearly the same feature; Chrome added auto-pausing past year, and Safari lets you activate this option in battery conservation mode. Flash refers to the content that plays automatically sometimes without us knowing whenever we open a web page.
We’re aligned with other browsers in this transition from Flash towards a modern standards-based web. After all, Flash is certainly a known resource hog, so it makes sense that companies are looking to it to trim the fat on power usage.
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Microsoft presented Edge Platform Issue Tracker as the more effective way for users and developers to communicate with the company about possible issues and suggestions.
