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Interestingly enough the "libflashplugin.so" bar popped up on Gmail for me the last time that all my Flash instances crashed. I never realized that GMail used Flash. (The bar only seemed to pop up on tabs that were using Flash, not all tabs had the warning at the top)

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Gmail uses flash for the file upload progress bar when adding an attachment. Will HTML5 allow developers to add this feature?

Flash is also used to make that popping sound when you get a gtalk message.

It is? Why?

Don't know about HTML5 (I can hope), but it can be accomplished with JS + hidden iframe for uploading. I think it requires querying the server for the progress, but I could be wrong there.

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