> Modern internet has a surprisingly small dependency on Flash. It depends what you do. I've not used Flash for about 10 years, and never really missed it. The

> Modern internet has a surprisingly small dependency on Flash. It depends what you do. I've not used Flash for about 10 years, and never really missed it. The most common use of Flash these days is for video players, which is the easiest use-case to work around since it doesn't actually require any Flash-specific capabilities; wget and VLC are a fine replacement, and the URLs can be extracted using Firefox addons, greasemonkey scripts, commandline tools, digging around in Firebug, or just Googling around to find an alternative source. I don't know about videos on facebook.com, since I've never had reason to visit that site. "Real" uses of Flash (like newgrounds.com which I used to visit obsessively) are basically impossible to work around. None of the FOSS reimplementations (LightSpark, Gnash, swfdec, etc.) is any good, although swfdec seemed the least-bad in my experience. On the other hand, such usage is rarely critical. There are very few "giant Flash file" sites around these days, and most of those that used to exist could be either safely ignored (eg. games) or worked around (eg. emailing the owner to obtain whatever info you need).