Google Chrome Set to Gain Integrated Flash Player Plug-In

[tkermit]

If you're a Chrome user, I'd say this is great.... For everybody else, I'm not so sure

 

[bdkennedy1]

I'm seeing a lot of Microsoft-like moves from Google lately.

I think anyone that deals with technology all day knows that Flash is on its way out, yet Google's brand new browser is going to partner with a 16 year old application that crashes all the time. That's like putting an onboard computer inside of a Ford Pinto. Brilliant.

 

[Bregalad]

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.

Flash games push my 17" MBP all the way up to 98C (208F) even with the cooling fans running at 5000rpm.

Guess I won't be using Chrome.

 

[kirky29]

So.... Is Google doing this JUST to annoy Apple?
Is Flash integrated with Safari as well? I know on a Mac you don't have to install Flash.. Well, I never have over the years!

 

[jayducharme]

Perhaps this is a signal that Adobe is willing to put a little more effort into making an efficient Flash engine. Or maybe they just feel like sticking it to Apple.

 

[dicklacara]

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.

From another perspective, the war is over who is going to benefit/control advertising on mobile devices-- Internet, games, apps, content (music, Movies, TV, eBooks, news, magazines, Live Events/Sports, Podcasts, etc.).

Flash is just the current battle in that war!

Likely, the winner of the "mobile war" will emerge victorious in the "overall computer war".

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[tkermit]

Safari is the most unstable of all browsers I have tried (it crashes with Java much more often than with Flash

There's a solution for that:

 

[jaw04005]

Absolute BS. QuickTime is by far the worst security threat on OS X, and Java is bigger security threat than Flash.

Which is one reason Apple is abandoning the old QuickTime framework and trying to move to QTKit/QuickTime X.

 

[ValSalva]

Isn't this Google getting cozy with Adobe in preparation for its Chrome OS? That way they can install Chrome OS on tablet hardware and compete against the Flashless iPad.

Google will get into bed with anyone to make a buck. This is not surprising.

(China was a financial decision, cut your losses, type thing made to look like a humanitarian move. It was thinly disguised and cynical by Google.)

 

[kas23]

So.... Is Google doing this JUST to annoy Apple?
Is Flash integrated with Safari as well? I know on a Mac you don't have to install Flash.. Well, I never have over the years!

Not likely. I think Google is just trying to provide their customers another choice on how internet content is delivered. This is not a black-and-white world. I see adopting both Flash and HTML5 as being reasonable.

And for people who believe Flash is just for advertising are very naive. Second, for people who think Flash runs poorly on Macs, this is not entirely true. I own a 5 year-old PowerBook and a 1 year-old MBP, both of which handle Flash perfectly fine.

 

[chrmjenkins]

Thanks for your growing stupidity, Google...one more reason to avoid using Chrome anyway.

GOOGLE IS DEAD.

Your bridge is looking nice today.


I wonder if this is at all indicative for impending flash support on the android, or whether it's a completely separate development.

 

[DoNoHarm]

I think the real aim here is to eventually have flash available on a mobile platform like android. That's the next logical step.

 

[citi]

Which is one reason Apple is abandoning the old QuickTime framework and trying to move to QTKit/QuickTime X.

I just think it's rather coincidental that I couldn't watch the iPad tutorials on Chrome (sound only, no picture) when they "magically" play perfect in Safari. Aren't they both using webkit?

 

[baryon]

Great! I'm glad to see that Google respects Flash at least, unlike Apple.

 

[Glideslope]

But can you turn it off?

Bet you can't!!

 

[50548]

You'd think the more vociferous fanboys here would know how to maintain their OS, but apparently this is not the case....

Firefox lightweight? You must be joking.

Sorry to burst your bubble, but I have had virtually no crashes on Safari (or any crashes for that matter) except in a few instances where Flash was active...so perhaps we don't have these problems EXACTLY because we know how to maintain our systems...

 

[surferfromuk]

Flash equals ADVERTS which is Google's only real source of income.

Next will be individually targeted ads based on your personal surfing history.

Google's honey pot is getting very sticky lately.

 

[*LTD*]

Listen here.. the world doesn't revolve around Apple, Steve Jobs tantrums, or his little iPhoneOS ecosystem.

Apparently it does. Steve opens his mouth and HTML5 comes rolling out of it. Roughly one to two months later and major players are preparing for HTML5 transitions.

 

[Kinobi]

I just think it's rather coincidental that I couldn't watch the iPad tutorials on Chrome (sound only, no picture) when they "magically" play perfect in Safari. Aren't they both using webkit?

No problems here with Chrome/Win 7

 

[50548]

So.... Is Google doing this JUST to annoy Apple?
Is Flash integrated with Safari as well? I know on a Mac you don't have to install Flash.. Well, I never have over the years!

Sad thing is, I actually have Flash on my Mac...the most astounding thing is when we realize that in order to UPDATE that crappy plug-in you are obliged to download and run a moronic uninstaller from Adobe BEFORE installing a new version...

Anyway, seems like MS/Adobe fanboys are infesting this place in full force today...go figure.

 

[Glideslope]

can't believe this is happening. I purposely disable flash in chrome. Now they make this integrated...

Always remember Steve's comments on campus after the iPad event. "The No Evil Google Stuff is BS".

A year from now all the control freaks in here will be screaming about Google in ways that make Apples current path look tame.

 

[Almy]

From another perspective, the war is over who is going to benefit/control advertising on mobile devices-- Internet, games, apps, content (music, Movies, TV, eBooks, news, magazines, Live Events/Sports, Podcasts, etc.).

Flash is just the current battle in that war!

Likely, the winner of the "mobile war" will emerge victorious in the "overall computer war".

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Google will become the Microsoft of the mobile internet age. And Apple will become the Apple of the mobile internet age. Niche is cool and all, but Google will direct the masses and reap the long term greater profit margin.

 

[tkermit]

Flash equals ADVERTS which is Google's only real source of income.

Next will be individually targeted ads based on your personal surfing history.

I'm pretty sure they do that already (at least for 'participating' sites in your history)...

 

[bnerd]

Apparently it does. Steve opens his mouth and HTML5 comes rolling out of it. Roughly one to two months later and major players are preparing for HTML5 transitions.

Its not HTML5 transitions... its HTML5 ADDitions.

The major players are sticking with Flash on the web... moving to HTML5 for devices that are stuck with only HTML.

 

[50548]

Google will become the Microsoft of the mobile internet age. And Apple will become the Apple of the mobile internet age. Niche is cool and all, but Google will direct the masses and reap the long term greater profit margin.

Since MS is gonna become the underdog, we should perhaps start using Bing then...