I was wondering about the stock price for Google today and out of habit went to finance.yahoo.com to see a chart. Specifically I wanted to see the 1 year chart. I don’t have Flash installed on my primary browser, which triggered Yahoo Finance to redirect me away from the 1 year chart page to http://finance.yahoo.com/chart/flash#symbol=GOOG;range=1y instead. Which looks like this:
Seriously, that is what the page looks in my Chrome 16 beta browser without Flash installed.
If you are going to continue using Flash for these charts, why on earth would you redirect people without it to such a useless page?
Update : @azitzer (product manager for Yahoo Finance) noticed this and to their credit fixed it. Still requires Flash to get the regular graph, but at least now the redirect doesn’t send you to a mostly empty page.
2 replies on “What Yahoo Finance Looks Like Without Flash”
I have flash installed the version is Adobe Flash Player 11.1.102.55 and I am being redirected to this page also. What do I do to show the charts for different time periods on Yahoo Finance??
Perhaps they are looking for specific versions of Flash, I’m not sure.