Looking At Google's Flashified Chrome

An anonymous reader writes "Google quietly released a new beta version of its Chrome browser, which not only blows its rivals out of the water as far as performance is concerned, but comes with half a dozen new features, including direct integration of Adobe Flash. First benchmarks show that the new beta is about 10% faster than the previous beta in the SunSpider and V8 benchmark, and about 30% faster than Chrome 4, which remains the fastest JavaScript browser available today."

Comments

Can it run adblock, flashblock and noscript?

[Joce640k]

Because if it can't....

I think it does spy on you

[goombah99]

Every keystroke in the address bar is sent to google by default according to microsoft. How else are they supposed to do google-suggest?

Re:Thanks Google!

[sopssa]

Why would YouTube want to destroy their image by bullying its users? It would affect what they think about them - people aren't retards you know.

On top of that all the HTML5 video players are clunky and so is YouTube's current one too. It would also mean H.264 victory over Theora, since YouTube is currently using H.264 with their HTML5 player. Not that Theora will still win anyway.

Re:OMG! Including direct integration of Adobe Flas

[Mage99]

Might be a work around if you can use the browser in iPhone and iPad
if the integration with flash is tight enough and the iPhone/iPad OS doesn't recognize the process
as flash due to the integration. So in other words the browser would have to mask the flash execution as some "other" software process not flash,
essentially hiding it from the OS?