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Re: “Adobe Flash Player is required for interactive charts”

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Post by userbinator »

underyx wrote: post #5

A week or so ago this message appeared on the Portfolio page, I assume the Flash Player requirement will be gone soon: > Google Finance is under renovation. As a part of this process, the Portfolios feature won't be available after mid-November 2017. To keep a copy, download your portfolio.

If the trends of "renovation" I've seen on other sites are any indication, the Flash requirement will disappear but so will a bunch of other useful features. :-(

IMHO if they can't change things without removing functionality, they should just leave well enough alone. They don't have to "support" the old version or do anything special with it; just leave it alone in its current, working, state.

Re: “Adobe Flash Player is required for interactive charts”

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Post by dante_dev »

Aardwolf wrote: post #10

The article title is wrong. The real message is: "Adobe Flash Player is required for interactive charts." The title is: "Adobe Flash Player is required for charts" I see a chart without flash, it's just not interactive (but a static rendered image)

Really the title should be "Adobe Flash Player is required for finance.google.com interactive charts until they port it to html5"

Re: “Adobe Flash Player is required for interactive charts”

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Post by pja »

dante_dev wrote: post #13
Aardwolf wrote: post #10

The article title is wrong. The real message is: "Adobe Flash Player is required for interactive charts." The title is: "Adobe Flash Player is required for charts" I see a chart without flash, it's just not interactive (but a static rendered image)

Really the title should be "Adobe Flash Player is required for finance.google.com interactive charts until they port it to html5"

If Google cared about Google Finance, they would have done that five years ago (or more). It’s clearly in maintenance mode, with the bare minimum spent on it to keep the lights on but no active development.

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Post by yeukhon »

Aardwolf wrote: post #10

The article title is wrong. The real message is: "Adobe Flash Player is required for interactive charts." The title is: "Adobe Flash Player is required for charts" I see a chart without flash, it's just not interactive (but a static rendered image)

It should be "Adobe Flash Player is required for charts on finance.google.com on Firefox otherwise static rendered chart image is not renderable either".

I tried Firefox on Windows and Chrome on Windows, only FF can't show the static rendered image without first activate Flash.

Re: “Adobe Flash Player is required for interactive charts”

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Post by bastien-brd »

BerislavLopac wrote: post #4
pja wrote: post #2

Google Finance is a dead product walking: Are there any developers actually working on it at all?

Any recommendations for a better alternative?

Quandl is pretty good (https://www.quandl.com/). It is a unique API (and has a web interface as well) to a collection of financial and economics data sets.

Re: “Adobe Flash Player is required for interactive charts”

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Post by shoover »

underyx wrote: post #5

A week or so ago this message appeared on the Portfolio page, I assume the Flash Player requirement will be gone soon: > Google Finance is under renovation. As a part of this process, the Portfolios feature won't be available after mid-November 2017. To keep a copy, download your portfolio.

Naturally. Portfolios are the reason I use the product. They give you a quick view of each symbol on the right at finance.google.com, a link to chart each symbol, and the ability to chart the portfolio as a whole. It was all convenient and solid for years. Bye bye.

Re: “Adobe Flash Player is required for interactive charts”

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Post by giancarlostoro »

Fiahil wrote: post #8
BerislavLopac wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Any recommendations for a better alternative?

Yahoo Finance

I've always heard great things about Yahoo Finance and I keep the Android app as of recently. They notify me with videos / articles about what's going on in finance which I find handy, it's not too much of it thankfully.
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