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Status: Closed
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Closed: Sep 14
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OS: Mac
Pri: 2
Type: Bug-Regression



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Chrome no longer remembers that I want to allow Flash on particular sites

Reported by bml.temp...@googlemail.com, Sep 14

Issue description

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_13_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/69.0.3497.92 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce the problem:
1. Play a game at (for example) littlebigsnake.com, enabling flash for the site
2. Quit Chrome
3. Repeat step one. You will have to wait for flash detection and press the button again.

What is the expected behavior?
Chrome should remember flash permission has been granted for this site, as it did in previous versions.

What went wrong?
Chrome did not remember that permission had been granted for this site, causing an unnecessary wait and button click each time a user visits a flash game site.

Did this work before? Yes The one before the tabs went curvy. As an end user I don't have any way of finding this out.

Chrome version: 69.0.3497.92  Channel: stable
OS Version: OS X 10.13.6
Flash Version: 31.0.0.108
 
Status: Closed (was: Unconfirmed)
This is an intentional change as part of Chromium's Flash deprecation roadmap (see https://www.chromium.org/flash-roadmap#TOC-Non-Persisted-HTML5-by-Default-Target:-Chrome-69---September-2018-). The permission is only remembered for the browsing session and is reset on restart.

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This should be reopened and fixed (or at the very least marked WONT FIX)

Deliberately breaking things and creating a worse user experience is not a rational way to develop a browser.
Note for other users with the same bug, I've worked round the bug this by reverting to the last working version (v.68) and turning off auto updates, which also restores the familiar tab design.

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