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

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Post by giancarlostoro »

pja wrote: post #14
dante_dev wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Which is potentially why I've heard for years that Yahoo Finance is really good, in fact probably better considering the amount of attention Yahoo Finance gets. Yahoo is still my go to choice. I only use Google when I am looking up stuff from Google's domain and it shows up as an instant answer.

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

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Post by angus-prune »

userbinator wrote: post #11
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.

But with flash being deprecated across pretty much every browser and EoL by Adobe, they can't really leave it alone.

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

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Post by muleaga »

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?

Teletrader Public Webstation http://www.teletrader.com

(full disclosure, that’s the company I work for)

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

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Post by ameesdotme »

geoah wrote: post #7
stevenh wrote: post #3

Chrome on a Mac here. Did anyone else's ENTIRE SCREEN fade to black for a second upon loading this page? How is that possible?

Nope. OS X 10.12.6 Beta (16G8c) Chrome Version 61.0.3163.100 (Official Build) (64-bit)

Off topic: That beta is very buggy and you should consider updating to a more recent one.

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

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Post by anilakar »

People are complaining about Flash? I've got quite a few stories from doing integration work with refrigeration systems. Mind you, most of these systems are meant to be used daily by the staff at ordinary grocery stores.

- One vendor requires a leaky JRE 1.5 to run their configuration tool, originally written for Windows CE around 2007. You need to keep it inside a VM and disable automatic Java updates.

- A newer system from the same company requires Flash. Most customers opt for the Java based one, because the newer system is unsuitable for anything but the smallest sites (frozen foods melting at high bus and CPU loads).

- The web GUI on another company's product wants a browser Java plugin that accepts unsigned certs.

- The web GUI on a third company's product requires the user to accept unsigned certs, even though these systems are never exposed to the internet (RFC 1918 and certificates are inherently incompatible). The GUI is a stateful JSP frameset hell.

- Yet another company that no longer makes refrigeration systems requires DOS-based software. Luckily its volume ID based copy protection does not work under Windows XP.

EDIT: Fixed line breaks for readability

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

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Post by wyager »

anilakar wrote: post #27

People are complaining about Flash? I've got quite a few stories from doing integration work with refrigeration systems. Mind you, most of these systems are meant to be used daily by the staff at ordinary grocery stores. - One vendor requires a leaky JRE 1.5 to run their configuration tool, originally written for Windows CE around 2007. You need to keep it inside a VM and disable automatic Java updates. - A newer sys…

Why the hell do grocery store refrigerators require a web GUI? The most complicated computer in the whole system should maybe be an 8-bit microcontroller.

For massive industrial-scale refrigeration and storage, it might also make sense to add, say, a serial port.

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

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Post by ctrlrsf »

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?

CNBC charts aren’t too bad. Lots of other crap on the site though.
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