Chrome 69 is Coming: Not Just a New Look But Flash's Life is About To Get Even Harder (zdnet.com)

Google's curvy tab Material Design update for Chrome will arrive in version 69 of the browser due out in September. From a report: Google flags the upcoming changes in its Enterprise release notes for Chrome 69, which gives a brief mention under browser interface changes to a "new design across all operating systems." Chrome 69, penciled in for stable release on September 4, will also get native Windows 10 notifications, which have been rolling out to users over the past month. Chrome 69 will also progress the long-running project to deprecate Flash Player, which Adobe has announced will reach end of life in 2020. Microsoft, Mozilla, and Apple have similar deprecation timelines for Flash on their desktop browsers. Once ubiquitous, Flash content is now hardly used at all by Chrome users, though Google won't fully remove support until Chrome 87 in 2020. At present, if a user enables Flash for a particular site, they don't need to approve it if they visit the site again. However, in Chrome 69, every time users restart Chrome, they'll need to give permission for sites to use Flash.

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They should fix the spelling correction on Macs

[angel'o'sphere]

First Chrome, now also Skype, realizes that I type in english, underlines what is wrong, but does not use the english dictionary fro spelling correction ...

Every Mac application, uses the build in text input system, which automatically realizes which language I use and offers spelling correction with the appropriated dictionary, but Chrome must roll its own inferior version, and Skype is even worth.

Re: Chrome 69

[Anonymous Coward]

You know that all the browsers are doing this, right? They all have a similar roadmap of phase out. Microsoft, Google, and Mozilla all agreed on timelines and shared similar roadmaps - all on the same day for once.

Re: There is a line

[UnknowingFool]

You make it out like Flash was a paragon of computing before Apple while twirling its moustache decided to kill it off for all computer users everywhere. Flash was terrible. It crashed often. It consumes lots of computing power. It had so many security holes that it seemed like I was patching daily.

Flash however was one of the few cross platform things you could use back in the day. When it worked, it would work roughly the same whether on Windows or Mac. However the death knell wasnâ(TM)t just Apple. Better cross platform technologies like HTML5 is making Flash less relevant.