Facebook is the latest company to ditch Adobe Flash, with the social network switching its video player to HTML5 instead. All videos you watch on Facebook from now on will load in HTML5 by default, regardless of which Web browser you use. Facebook has been working on this for some time, debugging in order to ensure even older browsers are compatible.

In announcing the switch from Flash to HTML5, Facebook engineer Daniel Baulig said in a blog post, “We are continuing to work together with Adobe to deliver a reliable and secure Flash experience for games on our platform, but have shipped the change for video to all browsers by default.”
This is yet another nail in the coffin for Flash, which even Adobe admits is on its last legs. Unfortunately, Flash is so embedded in the way we use the Web that it will take years to eradicate it completely. Still, you can speed up its demise bypersonally uninstalling Flash.