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Google Chrome Set to Gain Integrated Flash Player Plug-In

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Google today announced the release of new developer builds of its Google Chrome browser that incorporate an integrated Flash Player plug-in, eliminating the need for users to separately install and update the plug-in required for much of the interactive Web content available today. As detailed on the blog of the related Chromium project, Chrome/Chromium developers are working with Adobe and other companies to define APIs for new browser plug-in models.
As a first step, we've begun collaborating with Adobe to improve the Flash Player experience in Google Chrome. Today, we're making available an initial integration of Flash Player with Chrome in the developer channel. We plan to bring this functionality to all Chrome users as quickly as we can.

We believe this initiative will help our users in the following ways:

- When users download Chrome, they will also receive the latest version of Adobe Flash Player. There will be no need to install Flash Player separately.

- Users will automatically receive updates related to Flash Player using Google Chrome's auto-update mechanism. This eliminates the need to manually download separate updates and reduces the security risk of using outdated versions.

- With Adobe's help, we plan to further protect users by extending Chrome's "sandbox" to web pages with Flash content.
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Chrome's tighter relationship with Adobe's Flash standard, rumored yesterday, comes as Apple has advocated alternative technologies for deploying rich Internet content. Apple's iPhone has not supported Flash since the device's launch nearly three years ago, and the iPad due for launch this weekend will similarly eschew support for the technology. A number of media content providers, including CBS and The New York Times and Time, Inc. have already begun making the shift to provide alternative HTML5-based video content to support non-Flash devices such as the iPad.

Article Link: Google Chrome Set to Gain Integrated Flash Player Plug-In
 
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https://www.macrumors.com/2010/03/30/google-chrome-set-to-gain-integrated-flash-player-plug-in/
I hope this plugin distribution system is open to other plug-in developers.

Edit: Nevermind. Fixed already, I see. By the way, the iPhone will have been out three years come June.
 
I guess it's a good thing, since you have to have flash to use the internet these days. Still, I don't like the idea of tying a browser to such inefficient technology. Flash is the plugin that LOVES to make my Safari go to 100% CPU and my Macbook to 180F, when the CPU is throttled and everything goes crazy slow. Or the browser crashes and all my current tabs are lost.
 
LOL. Flash has blown up my Google Chrome 3 times in the last 24 hours. Literally breaking it, even with the plugin protection.

I can't say if this is a good or bad thing right now.

I just know flash sucks right now in any browser, including chrome.
 
Why..? I thought Google was a leading force in the shift to HTML5.

I guess there's nothing wrong with supporting it, as long as extensions (or better yet, integrated preferences) exist that can disable it as well. But it is a dying platform.
 
gødspeed said:
Why..? I thought Google was a leading force in the shift to HTML5.

I guess there's nothing wrong with supporting it, as long as extensions (or better yet, integrated preferences) exist that can disable it as well. But it is a dying platform.
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Flash for web is a dying platform. Flash for interactive content is not.

And besides, it's more of a security concern than anything else. Old versions of Flash running around leave open vulnerabilities for people's computers. And can you honestly remember the last time you specifically updated Flash to fix those problems? People don't know or don't care.
 
Google's main browser goal goes as follows:

eliminate:

IE7/8/6 etc

FireFox

Opera

Safari

safari is last on Googles list.

If the meeting of the CEO's on page 2 rumors didn't convince you that this " WAR" is staged then your hopeless.

Remember Apple is a MOBILE DEVICES company now.

The iPad is the vision that Steve had since 1976.
 
It just dawned on me that Google makes their money from advertising, and flash is largely used for advertising. I wonder if Apple's attempt to kill Flash is a factor in the "feud" between Apple and Google.
 
BRLawyer said:
Thanks for your growing stupidity, Google...one more reason to avoid using Chrome anyway.
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Why, because Steve Jobs declared that Flash is inherently bad? Listen here.. the world doesn't revolve around Apple, Steve Jobs tantrums, or his little iPhoneOS ecosystem. Chrome is a multi-platform browser and vast majority of Internet users use Flash.

BRLawyer said:
GOOGLE IS DEAD.
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LOL.. yes clearly.
 
rstansby said:
It just dawned on me that Google makes their money from advertising, and flash is largely used for advertising. I wonder if Apple's attempt to kill Flash is a factor in the "feud" between Apple and Google.
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because no one will/has figured out how to create html5 ads? LOL
 
You'd think Google would want to kill off Flash more than anyone, I wonder why they don't just pitch in with Apple and get it done with already!

Actually, if Google would just eliminate Flash from Youtube then that would be one of the final nails in Flash's coffin!
 
Apple is arrogant

Ok, flash may have problems and all that but the mainstream of people know something called "FLASH" and have no idea about the problems or bugs it may have.

The majority of the planet knows GOOGLE and are aware of something called GOOGLE CROME but have litle or no clue about something called Safari, that may be linked to Apple computers only.

So, in this forums (Macrumors) people may know one thing or the other about each technology but the world care less about any of those things, those are geegs stuff.

so, Apple is loosing big time agains Google in not adopting or working out things with Adobe and leaving things in a sivel plate to Google who is gatting stronger and more succesful than Apple in a fraction of the time.

So Apple... WAKE UP!
 
BRLawyer said:
Thanks for your growing stupidity, Google...one more reason to avoid using Chrome anyway.

GOOGLE IS DEAD.
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LOL. What planet do you live on?

Safari is the worst resource hog of all browsers I have tested on my Macs - that's why I use Firefox now.

Also, while Chrome is a relative newcomer, its installed base already far surpasses Safari.

There is a good reason for that. Safari is the most unstable of all browsers I have tried (it crashes with Java much more often than with Flash), and most of the whining here about Flash is due either to Safari, and/or screwed up systems.

You'd think the more vociferous fanboys here would know how to maintain their OS, but apparently this is not the case....
 
Sounds good. Hope it means smooth and fast running Flash for Mac OS X version of Chrome in the future.
 
SO, I guess the enemy of my enemy is my friend. I expected more from Google to embrace standards instead of having more proprietary stuff built into Chrome.

"eliminating the need for users to separately install and update the plug-in"
What does that mean? What if there's a security vulnerability in Flash? Does that mean user have to update the whole browser every time? Or is Google going to do an auto-update ala ActiveX Flash in IE?
 
macUser2007 said:
LOL. What planet do you live on?

Safari is the worst resource hog of all browsers I have tested on my Macs - that's why I use Firefox now.

Also, while Chrome is a relative newcomer, its installed base already far surpasses Safari.

There is a good reason for that. Safari is the most unstable of all browsers I have tried (it crashes with Java much more often than with Flash), and most of the whining here about Flash is due either to Safari, and/or screwed up systems.

You'd think the more vociferous fanboys here would know how to maintain their OS, but apparently this is not the case....
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The problem is those vociferous fanboys also believe at all costs that it's THEM not US.

It's fine to "love" your products. But if that "love" makes you blind (and yes - that's a strong word) to obvious shortcomings - well then, that's sad.
 
Am I missing something? Doesn’t Apple pre-install the Flash plug-in for Safari users? I know it comes pre-installed when you get your Mac/install Mac OS X, and I believe it’s bundled into the Safari installer package.

Also, the Flash plug-in is updated with each update of Safari whether or not you manually updated Flash because there was a security issue where the update build of Safari installed an older Flash plug-in a few months ago.
 
dagamer34 said:
Flash for web is a dying platform. Flash for interactive content is not.

And besides, it's more of a security concern than anything else....
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Absolute BS. QuickTime is by far the worst security threat on OS X, and Java is bigger security threat than Flash. http://www.sans.org/top-cyber-security-risks/

Apple DOES NOT have a formal security program. Apple is also the slowest of all major OS producers to fix security holes - exemplified by last year's famous six months delay in fixing a known and serious Java exploit. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/06/09/apple_security_suggestions/
 
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