Adobe Flash Now Officially a Part of Google Chrome

MacGene noted that Google has announced plans to include Flash with Chrome. This step will make Chrome easier for Mom & Pop to use, but comes with a host of issues that have been discussed here before. I expect them to announce Silverlight Thursday.

Comments

Re:I'm ok with it.

[IrrepressibleMonkey]

I'm not sure that's true...

When I go to this link...

http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager07.html

...and check out my Website Storage Settings, I see a whole bunch of sites that I've never even visited.

(Or at least I don't want to admit too...)

CmdrTaco is en fuego

[Red Flayer]

Hey, not that it has anything to do with anything, but Rob is ripping the one-liners attached to article summaries today.

This article:
I expect them to announce Silverlight Thursday.

The Novell/SCO article:
No doubt this is the last we will ever hear of any of this.

The NASA/Toyota article:
We're really in trouble when NASA has no choice but to call Bruce Willis.

The slow-people-down-with-obstacles-article:
All of that is gonna work a lot better than my strategy of placing car-sized holes covered with twigs and branches randomly every half mile or so down the interstates.

Is CmdrTaco giddy with anticipation of some giant prank for Thursday? If he on the gigglejuice? Is he just happy spring is here?

Who knows... but it's nice to see some light-hearted editorialization for a change.

And, now, rightfully so, please mod this post into oblivion.

Stupid Media Spin To This Story

[WiseWeasel]

So here's the story; Google releases a new Chromium build that does three things:
1) A copy of the Flash plugin gets installed when Chrome/Chromium is installed, regardless of whether you already have it.
2) Chrome/Chromium now runs its copy of the Flash plugin in a sandbox, so that malicious Flash content can't access your computer.
3) Chrome/Chromium will now auto-scan for updates to the Flash plugin and install them in an automated fashion upon launch.

So basically, the real story is that this is a security update for Chromium, mitigating many of the vulnerabilities with the current setup of having the Flash runtime be run with user privileges from a central location for all browsers, and managed by no one at all.

There's also an announcement of a partnership between Google, Mozilla and Adobe to work on a new API for browser plugins, presumably involving browsers taking a more active role in managing their plugins, and allowing certain features like sandboxing and implementation of some type of common interface standards.

What we get instead is reporting of Google thwarting Apple's putative war on Flash, somehow breathing new life into the beleaguered standard, where Apple would surely do the opposite of whatever Google is doing. I'd not be surprised to see Safari adopt some very similar features in the near future, as they all make pretty good sense, at least for their desktop browser. If only these "journalists" knew enough about what they were reporting to recognize their need to eat crow at that point.