The choice, however, remained optional as paused content could be resumed with a mouse click.

The auto pause feature dramatically improved web browsing speed and significantly reduced power consumption.

The content usually involves advertisements and autoplay sidebar videos on websites that slows down page loads and were deemed inessential. In 2015, Google introduced “intelligent pausing”, a click-to-load feature in Chrome that automatically halted the playback of content-including Flash animations-to save on data and power. The move will be done to improve security, as well as reduce power consumption and page load times. Google said it plans to release Chrome 55 in December, and will replace Flash with HTML5, which is a lightweight, plugin-free alternative to Adobe's multimedia software platform. According to Google’s Chrome blog, Google plans to push Adobe Flash Player out the door at the end of the year with a new version of its Chrome web browser. This coming September, Chrome 53 will effectively begin to block Flash.

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