Chrome Gives Flash Greater Support

In what we have dubbed the war on Flash, an interesting event has transpired. As Apple has taken a strong stance against the Adobe plug-in Flash even with Steve Jobs publicly railing against the technology on stage, Chrome has gone a different direction.

With the latest version, Chrome 5.0.376.86, the browser has increased support to Flash and even enables the plug-in by default. In the past, Flash was only available on the BETA and developer releases of the Chrome web browser.

There have been wide debate whether the fate of Flash is sealed, but it may not be so clear. Adobe has even pushed out Flash Player 10.1 which has support for mobile devices in addition to computers. In addition, some browsers (Chrome and Firefox particularly) have updated technology to prevent Flash from crashing the browser, which was a long-standing complaint against the plug-in.