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Does that come along for the ride if you use Chromium rather than Chrome? I'm not next to my Mac, but I believe I remember chromium being available through the homebrew cask system.

I don't care if I don't have flash (actually I care to NOT have flash). So what reason would there be to not simply run Chromium? Or am I forgetting something useful that I'm likely using?

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Certain YouTube videos use Flash instead of HTML5, particularly at higher resolutions. You can probably live without this, but it's worth noting.

Not anymore—all videos can be viewed in Chromium as well (except those with special DRM).

They’re using DASH with small .mp4 snippets. It’s also the reason why videos don’t load completely anymore and why audio and video sometimes go out of sync. Also the reason why nothing works as expected.

This is called Slice Bread. It also helps video buffer much faster. http://www.sfgate.com/technology/dotcommentary/article/Googl...

That's good to know, thank you. I knew that they transitioned to DASH but I didn't think that brought HTML5 everywhere. For live stream events (e.g. Apple's announcements), do they still use Flash?

Apple's announcements usually use the Quicktime plugin, at least if you're viewing on OSX. You can also usually extract the source stream and play it in another app if you dig through the markup/scripts/etc.

It's worth noting that HLS is still currently being used for live events on YouTube, which requires the Flash player on Chrome.

Sync, auto-updating, DRM. PDFium used to be Chrome-only but was recently open-sourced.

Sync works on Chromium (Linux) too, have been using it ever since I could.

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